Latest Articles in it
-
Belgium
HIT@HEALTCARE - A Unique Joint Event (8-10 October, 2008) For the first time in the healthcare history of Belgium and The Netherlands, four e-Health professional associations have decided to join forces in order to organise an international conference and exhibition in Brussels. This event will coincide with the celebration of the 25th...
READ MORE -
EU Face to Face With the Rfid Revolution
In the field of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips, the European Union is losing the technological battle for mass deployment, seen as the driver of the creation of an “Internet of things,” the Commission declared. RFID chips have already been deployed at a significant scale all over the world while their implementation can be found in sectors...
READ MORE -
The EU RTD Programe FP-7:Health IT Projects
IT projects with healthcare implications awarded under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP-7) are ambitious in scale. Many underscore the EU’s emerging response to its e-Health agenda as well as the possibility of using IT to cope imaginatively with the challenges of an ageing population. Nevertheless, many observers in the healthcare...
READ MORE -
Hospital Governance and IT
Can IT-mediated corporate governance systems derived from (and generated by) private sector companies be applied to hospitals, in particular the non-profit hospitals which underpin the European healthcare landscape ? Across most of Europe, hospital boards oversee policies/strategies, financial plans and other operational activities, and many review...
READ MORE -
Letter from the Editor
Dear Reader, In a modern business context, one of the most distinctive features of information technology is the fact that it can add efficiency and value across an entire swathe of processes and specific operational disciplines. Based on these trends, (E)Hospital and Healthcare IT Management have decided to resume their IT@Networking...
READ MORE -
Six Sigma
Author William LaFollette currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). Six Sigma can reduce defects in services to unprecedented levels because of its strong emphasis on statistical analysis and measurement in design, manufacturing, and the entire area of patient-oriented activities....
READ MORE -
Cost Benefit Analysis vs.Return to Investment
Tom Jones is Director at TanJent Consultancy. Taking decisions can be tough. Taking complex decisions is even tougher. Most eHealth decisions are probably at the tougher end of the complex. They can affect the performance of healthcare resources, impact patients, and are often linked to changes to clinical and working practices...
READ MORE -
European Software Institute
Author Caroline Hommez is Managing Editor of (E)Hospital, the Official Journal of the European Association of Hospital Managers in Brussels, Belgium. ESI-Tecnalia was set up in 1993 as a non-profit technology foundation by the European Commission with the support of Spain’s provincial Basque Government. Its...
READ MORE -
Wireless Technology in the ICU
Author Neil A. Halpern is Chief of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York and Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York. Wireless technology offers a viable opportunity to...
READ MORE -
Managing Security Access
Author Neil A. Halpern is Chief of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York and Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York. Wireless technology offers a viable opportunity to...
READ MORE
INFO
IMAGING
ICU
EXEC
IT
CARDIOLOGY
JOURNALS
EVENTS
FACULTY
PARTNERS
BLOG
VIDEOS
CONTACT US
