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Carestream
Carestream’s progress with NHS Scotland PACS Carestream Health Inc. marked its one-year anniversary as an independent company with an announcement of “significant progress” with the NHS Scotland National PACS Project implementation. The project now has 21 sites connected out of the country’s 39 hospitals, with 10,000 general clinical...
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Greece
Greek staff trained on telemedicine approaches Doctors and nursing staff from several municipalities in Greece - plus four specialists from the Athens Medical Centre - have been trained in the use of telemetric systems as part of an extension of the country’s telemedicine program. The municipalities are members of the Inter Municipality...
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Norway
EPR Norwegian study A study by researchers at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has found that GP electronic patient records in Norway has led to better availability of records, but unsatisfactory access to information. The study by academics Tom Christensen and Anders Grimsmo says that the deployment of EPRs...
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HIT Paris 2008, Paris, France
This year’s 4th session of theWorld Health Care Congress Europe opened its doors with an executive seminar on Innovative Care ManagHIT Paris 2008, Paris, France Following its successful launch in 2007, the second edition of Health Information Technologies Event ‘Hit 2008’, comprised a Congress and an Exhibition which targeted a variety of health professionals...
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The 2008 Portoroz Declaration
According to participants at the annual EU eHealth 2008 event, which took place at Portoroz, Slovenia from May 6-7, telemedicine and innovative ICT tools for chronic disease management will be the key to delivering people-centered health care. The annual EU eHealth 2008 conference,where stakeholders demonstrated results in the use of information and...
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Benchmarking ICT Use Among GPS in Europe
E-Health applications have a growing role in the doctor’s practices, according to the ‘Benchmarking ICT use among General Practitioners in Europe’ study carried out by consultants empirica in association with IPSOS on behalf of the European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate- General. The pan-European survey was recently...
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PACS and IT
Does IT Really Decrease Costs of Healthcare IT? Ing. E.Talini and Prof. D. Caramella are with the diadnostic and Interventional Radiology Department of the University of Pisa, Italy. During the last three years, the Radiology Department at the University Hospital in Pisa, Italy,...
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Evolution in Healthcare IT Delivery
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, Just after the turn of this decade, it quickly became apparent that investments by the healthcare sector in the emerging e-business infrastructure were simply not keeping pace with other industries. For many analysts of paradigm shifts in technology, however, this was a blessing in disguise. The dotcom...
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A Look Back at the EU RTD Programme FP-6
In our previous issue, we provided an overview of healthcare IT projects awarded under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research. As noted, many underscore the EU’s response to its e-Health agenda and pathways to use IT to cope with the challenges of an ageing population. Given below is a summary of healthcare IT projects under the Sixth Framework Programme....
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Ireland UPS the Ante on IT for the Elderly
Author Catalina Ciolan, Ireland’s commitment to the elderly is reflected by its Minister for Older People, Ms Máire Hoctor, an ambitious young representative for the Fianna Fáil party from the constituency of Tipperary North. Ireland has more than 1 million people aged over 60, and like the rest of Europe, their share is increasing....
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