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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, HITM is committed to increasing the professional authority...
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Austria
Austrian Hospital to Implement Radiation IT The newly-constructed Vöcklabruck Hospital in Upper Austria will implement a digital radio-oncology suite provided by a Swedish healthcare IT firm, Elekta. The implementation cost is estimated at Û 5 million and is part of a 10-year contract between the hospital and vendor. At Vöcklabruck,...
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Bulgaria
Electronic Health Cards Implemented in Bulgaria Bulgaria’s first national electronic health cards were issued in September 2007, under a pilot program of the Ministry of Health and the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). InterComponentWare AG, Cisco Systems Inc. and Kontrax Consulting, a U.S.-based contract management firm, have helped develop...
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Portuguese Council Presidency
On July 1, Portugal took over the EU’s rotating presidency from Germany. Portugal is now responsible for the EU presidency for the third time, after 1992 and 2000. In turn, it will hand over the presidency to Slovenia on January 1, 2008. The Portuguese presidency has set up several priorities for its six-month mandate. The most important...
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Mobile Communications in Emergency Situations
Authors Simon Grasser works for Carinthian Tech Research AG, an Austrian R C & a D r f m irm e . n Hafner a J n ü d rgen Thierry are researchers at the Department of Medical Information Technologies of the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences. ...
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The US Healthcare System
In June 2003, a landmark study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that American adults received appropriate medical treatment only 55% of the time (or just about once on every two occasions). In the years since, a private organisation called The Commonwealth Fund has routinely conducted an X-Ray of expert perspectives about...
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The Legacy Systems Challenge
Over the past decades, European e-Health projects have principally focused on research and development. Some have also been demonstrated on a large scale through programmes like eTEN. However, many are now close to real-life deployment and use, and the European Union’s e-Health Action Plan has become a central plank of its broader i2010 strategy....
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TELMES
Author SFloorriinn SPeursbcaoncei,scu, BFloagviduasn B Daijoannisie, Telemedicine is part of the expanding use of information and communications technology in health care for prevention, disease management, home health care, long-term care, emergency medicine, and other applications. In Romania, the diversification...
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Of Disaster and Data Managment
As computers become ubiquitous, the issue of vital data loss due to disaster, is a growing concern for all computer users – from individuals and small firms, to large organisations in sensitive areas such as the military, banks or hospitals and, of course, healthcare facilities. Such security concerns sweep across a vast range of possibilities: the...
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Growing Complexity of Healthcare IT Will Drive Outsourcing
Technology in general, and IT specifically, have become one of the most pervasive aspects of healthcare delivery, touching nearly all its aspects. Today, a whole new universe of possibilities is being opened up in the shape of e-Health programmes. Most hospitals, however, lack the resources or skills to go it alone in building new IT infrastructures...
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