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Czech Republic
Czech Healthcare System Far Friendlier to Patients This year’s Euro Health Consumer Index (EHCI) survey found the Czech health care system to have become much more patient-friendly than last year. The Czech Republic placed 15th out of 29 countries (the 27 EU member states, plus Switzerland and Norway), compared to 2006, when it ranked 22 nd...
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Ukraine
International Conference “Telemedicine: Myths and Reality” The Association for Ukrainian Telemedicine and e-Health Development (a Member of The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers) presented the 1st International Conference “ Telemedicine : myths and reality ” on November 8 and 9 in Lviv, Ukraine. One...
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The Clinical Information System
At the Heart of Healthcare IT Author Jos Aarts is with the Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus Medical College, Rotterdam, the Netherlands . [email protected] Clinical Information Systems (CIS) are becoming critical to hospital IT infrastructure, in terms...
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Hospital Material Management 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, dedicates itself to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research...
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Six Sigma
Healthcare And 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...
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Videoconferencing
New Technologies Hold Promise to Revolutionise e-Health Author Tosh Sheshabalaya HITM The convergence of voice and images has long been a Holy Grail of the IT and telecoms industry. So far, a swathe of initiatives have led to a hotchpotch of mixed results. True-blue, real-time videoconferencing, to many critics, remained...
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Managing Change in Healthcare
The Senior Leader's Nondeleable Role Author Chip Caldwell is president of Chip Caldwell & Associates, and is the Northern Florida Regent of the American College of Healthcare Executives. As a consultant and coach to senior leader teams, Black Belts, and physician leaders who are learning...
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Tribulations of Working With a Clinical Information System
It is Interoperable … Author Gurpreet Dhillon is Professor of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University, US. One Friday evening, my son insisted on riding his bicycle. I tried convincing him that that road was slippery, that he had to have his supper and that I was tired, but to no avail....
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CIS: A Longstanding Debate
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya HITM The debate about the role and reliability of clinical information systems (CIS) goes back several years. As far back as 1994, a British Medical Journal editorial entitled ‘Are clinical information systems safe ?’ portrayed a series of high-profile failures (which entailed...
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Letter from the Executive Director, HITM
Dear Reader, There has always been a reflexive association between the words ‘medicine’ and ‘emergency’. Modern technology, especially at the cutting-edge of IT and communications, have brought wholly new meanings to the ability of the medical profession to manage and respond to emergencies. Our cover story looks at CANIS, a project...
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