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The Letter from the Executive Director and Editor-in Chief,HITM
Dear Readers, It seems that exciting times lie ahead for healthcare IT. As policymakers and health system managers seek to improve business processes and contain costs, there is a growing consensus that more intelligent, innovative and integrated healthcare systems are just around the corner. Our cover story reviews the state of play in healthcare...
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The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers(HITM)
The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (HITM) is a non-profit pan-European umbrella association of all relevant national healthcare IT associations in Europe. Believing in the fundamental importance of unifying healthcare IT professionals at European and global levels,...
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Agfa Healthcare
Assistance Publique - Hopitaux De Paris (AP-HP) to Choose Agfa Healthcare Agfa HealthCare has announced the winning of a contract to install its ORBIS (TM) solution at 37 hospitals in France, belonging to the Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) group. The project is regarded as one of the most ambitious deployments of a healthcare...
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Italy
Italian GPs to Receive X-Rays Online Italy’s San Salvatore Hospital in the Abruzzo Region has announced the development and adoption of a new radiology information system module from Carestream Health. The Italian-language module allows GPs to directly book digital x-ray examinations for their patients and receive feedback about...
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Norway
Telemedicine Laboratory at Gigantesque Dimensions Researchers, stakeholders and health authorities are building one of the biggest test beds for new telemedicine services. The Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine (NST) is the lead partner in this massive project, and research manager at NST, Gunn-Hilde Rotvold, presented her vision: “Troms County...
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Healthcare IT in Europe: Search for Efficiency and Cost Control
The Search for Efficiency and Cost Control Author Konstantinos Nikolopoulos is Programme Leader for Healthcare IT & Life Scien ces IT at consultants Frost & Sullivan. Healthcare systems globally, and in the European Union in particular, have been evolving and adapting in the last couple...
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Healthcare IT and ROI
A New Element in an Old Equation Author Guido Doucet is a Belgian PMI-certified IT consultant, previously with Philips and PwC. How times have changed? A decade ago, IT in healthcare was seen as little more than a country cousin of sectors like banking, retail, transportation or manufacturing. Its status,...
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EHR :Privacy vs.Interoperability
Openness/Interoperability Versus Privacy/Security Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, Both philosophically and technologically, the margins of the debate about electronic health records (EHRs) have been set by the long-running trade-off between openness and interoperability on the one hand, and privacy and security/confidentiality...
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Software as a Service (SaaS): Fad or Trend
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya The Gartner Group, a respected IT research firm, finds that organizations usually spend up to four times upfront costs to manage their software after purchase. Some spend as much as 75 percent and more of their total IT budget on maintaining and operating existing IT systems and infrastructure....
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One-Size-Fits-All?No,Not Always,in IT
Author Catalina Ciolan ASSIST, an association of 1,800 healthcare IT professionals in Britain, has published the results of a survey on the Big Bang modernization project of the England’s National Health Service. Its findings may underscore the need for some re-evaluation of the parameters and objectives of major healthcare...
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