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Philips
New Philips and VTT Development Centre in Finland Philips and VTT have jointly opened an InnoHub in Espoo, Finland. The objective is to produce innovative ideas and turn them in to profitable business. The focus areas are health, lifestyle and well-being. The InnoHub provides a real life setting, including a hospital room, nurses...
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IBA Health Group Limited
Lorenzo to be Adopted in Two More German Hospitals The German hospital group, Krankenhaus Buchholz and Winsen, is set to become the latest iSOFT customer for LORENZO. With iCS (iSOFT Collaboration Suite), Krankenhaus Buchholz and Winsen provide GPs access to hospital patient records using a standard web-browser. eFA, created as an...
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Lithuania
Successful Implementation of the ‘eHealth Services’ Project Lithuania’s “eHealth Services” Project is part of the development of a national eHealth system by the country’s Ministry of Health. Jointly funded by the Lithuanian Government and the European Union, the project entails the design, installation and operation of hospital information...
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Med-e-Tel 2009
The 7th edition of the annual Med-e-Tel conference in Luxembourg will focus on proven and tested telemedicine applications and provide evidence on clinical effectiveness and economic efficiency as well as on user aspects and satisfaction, and on some dos and don’ts of telemedicine implementation into care processes. EHTEL will be among...
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The World of Health IT 2008 Conference and Exhibition
The 2008 World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition continued to address the perspectives of clinicians, directors and other healthcare professionals, by offering Ó Educational sessions Ó Vendor exhibitions Ó Best practice exchange Ó IHE Interoperability Showcase Ó Networking sessions Ó Continuing Medical...
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Mcdica Congress 2008
The four days of the trade fair (and three days of COMPAMED) including the accompanying MEDICA Congress 2008 and the Deutscher Krankenhaustag (German Hospital Congress) saw a total of 137,000 registered visitors. The 4,313 exhibitors participating at MEDICA presented a complete spectrum of new products, services and processes for use in doctors’...
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Asset Management:From Hospital Bedding to Software
From Bedding to Software: Two Cases Asset management and control is an enduring challenge for all hospitals. The scope and scale of hospital ‘assets’ is both vast and heterogeneous. Nevertheless, IT has been increasingly deployed, often in imaginative ways, to meet such challenges. Such demands are likely to grow as the current economic crisis...
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'I Have a Dream'-Barack Obama's Healthcare IT Vision
Tosh Sheshabalaya, The November 2008 US presidential elections have brought to the White House one of the country’s most resolute champions of healthcare reforms in recent memory. Barack Obama is – and has also long been a proponent of IT as a way to bring about efficiencies to the country’s bloated healthcare spend, and the deep rooted structural...
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The Hospital System in Belgium and the Direction of Reforms
The Belgian healthcare system is a mix of mandatory national insurance and private medicine, a system of collective agreements between healthcare providers and insurance companies (national healthcare funds), and regulations issued by the public authorities. The Ministry of Public Health is responsible for defining laws on hospital programmes, the...
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Healthcare IT in Belgium
The legislative framework for e-Health in Belgium overlaps several existing laws and rules, ranging from privacy and data protection to certification of medical software and liability for devices. The key bodies officially developing the e-Health programme are the federal Health Ministry and the State Secretariat for Informatics. ...
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