• iSOFT

    iSOFT Signs a Five Year Agreement with Cmpmedica for Essential Drug Information Support Tools CMPMedica will supply iSOFT with comprehensive evidencebased drug information. This information solution will power iSOFT’s integrated suite of decision-support tools with the objective of enabling healthcare professionals to make better informed decisions....

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  • Carestream Healthcare

    Carestream Showcase Latest Innovations for Radiology and IT at ECR 2009 At the annual meeting of the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), Carestream Health will demonstrate its latest digital imaging and IT solutions.   These innovations, available worldwide in the second quarter of 2009, include latest generation RIS/PACS that will...

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  • Italy

    4th A.I.S.I.S. National Congress The Italian Association of Health Information Systems is holding its fourth national congress February 27- 28, 2009 in Porto Vecchio, Genoa. The title of the congress is “Verso l’Ospedale Digitale: quali elementi costitutivi? (“Towards the Digital Hospital: what are the constitutive elements?”)   Topics...

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  • The 5th Annual Health Care Congress Europe 2009

    For the 5th consecutive year, the World Health Care Congress Europe presents business cases, best practices and strategies for addressing the pressure and current challenges facing European health care - efficiency, economic stability, access to care, quality care, patient safety, and patient mobility within and across borders. The WHCCE 2009 brings...

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  • Sources of Financing and Policy Recommendations on Boosting e-Health Investment

    A major study on financing e-Health was commissioned by DG INFSO and Media’s ICT for Health Unit. Its objective: to examine the financial needs of e-Health investment against the funding available and therefore assist EU Members and the Commission in their efforts to meet the e-Health Action Plan objective of “supporting and boosting investment in...

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  • From e-Health to i-Health

    Traversing Tomorrow’s Healthcare Frontier   Tosh Sheshabalaya,   Technology is a curious creature. The most meaningful changes not only descend upon us, seemingly out of the blue, but also completely shake up the way we live and work. In addition, what may appear to be The Next New Thing often masks something else, which...

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  • Radiology Information System

    ECRI Institute Europe Weltech Centre Ridgeway Welwyn Garden City Herts AL7 2AA United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1707 871511 Fax: +44 (0)1707 393138 [email protected] www.ecri.org.uk ECRI Institute, a non-profit organisation, de dicates itself to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research...

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  • Patients Classification Systems-The Brazilian Experience

    Marcia Galan Perroca is Professor, Department of Specialized Nursing, Medicine School in São José do Rio Preto (FAMERP), Brazil. Patient Classification Systems (PCSs) are an important tool in healthcare management to improve the efficacy and effectiveness of resource use. An overview of the concept, benefits and limitations...

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  • Britain Moves to Lift Mobile Phone Ban in Hospital

    Catalina Ciolan, While much of Europe slumbered through its summer vacation, the programme to build a pan-European e-Health network shifted up one notch, after the European Commission published a Recommendation on cross-border interoperability of electronic health record (EHR) systems.   Hospitals in England should allow the “widest...

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  • The Belgian Healthcare System

    Kristof Eeckloo is with the Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Faculty of medicine, at Belgium’s Catholic University of Leuven.   Belgium is a federal state. There are three levels of government: federal, regional (three regions and three communities) and local provinces and municipalities)....

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