• The World of the IRevolution

    Dear Reader,   This years' HIMSS 2012 Las Vegas conference has once again highlighted the key importance of IT in successful healthcare deployment. Despite the fact that European IT solutions level up and even out-perform American counterparts, the US seems miles ahead in terms of information exchange amongst IT professionals and openness towards...

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  • Helix Health/First Databank

    First Databank (FDB), provider of drug knowledge bases and clinical decision support, has announced the continuation of the successful partnership with Helix Health. The contract provides Helix Health with FDB’s clinical databases for the next three years. Helix Health is continuing to use FDB’s information within their product suite in the Republic...

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  • Tunstall

    ‘3millionlives' will enable more people with long-term conditions and social care needs to be supported by tel ecare and telehealth. Tunstall Health care is supporting a new approach that aims to transform the lives of three million people with long-term conditions or social care needs, uti lising telehealth and telecare within health and social care...

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  • Individualised Patient Stratification Using Whole Genome Sequencing

    As the cost of sequencing the human genome falls, medical use of whole-genome sequencing in the clinic is rapidly approaching academic medical centres. In order to support the foreseeable flood of genomic information in the clinic an Oracle based database and business intelligence solution to detect genomic variants has been built at Erasmus university...

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  • Eyesmart EMR

    The lV Prasad Eye Institute (lVPEI) was established in 1986-87 at Hyderabad as a not-for-profit, non-government, public-spirited, comprehensive eye care institution. from its very beginning, it set forth as its core values the “Three E’s”: Equity, Efficiency and Excellence. Equity translates as treating all patients (paying for services or not, rich...

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  • 3D PACS Through Virtual Reality (Sisopacs) - Sisoft

    A special system is projected to perform PACS software (Sisopacs CE Certified, IHE Compliant) with the contribution of academicians, radiologists, physicians and R&D software and hardware specialists, in a 3D environment via 3D glasses and mechanical gloves that are being uniquely designed by Sisoft's R&D team for pre-surgical operations in order to...

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  • Polytechnic University Hospital

    "La Fe" in Valencia, Spain-Mobility System to Guarantee Clinical Safety and Optimise Beside Processes,Saving Cost. This specialty care centre is part of the Spanish public hospital network, with 1,300 beds, 39 operating rooms and more than 4,000 patients/day. Taking advantage of relocating to a new hospital, an innovative RFID and Wi-Fi system has...

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  • E-Prescribing in the ICU Engaging Authentic User Participation

    The healthcare sector is subject to great technological change in an effort to improve current practice and patient safety. While the use of information technology has been encouraged as a solution to improve patient safety and reduce medication errors, appropriate methods must be applied to the design and development of such systems to ensure they...

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  • Continuous Disinfection of the Hospital Environment.

    Using High Intensity Narrow-Spectrum Light(HINS-Light) Increased awareness of the importance of the hospital environment as a potential source of nosocomial pathogens has led to an upsurge of interest in hospital cleaning and decontamination procedures and technologies. It is now known that certain pathogens, such as MRSA and Acinetobacter can...

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  • An Overview of the Healthcare System in Greece

    The Greek healthcare system is characterised by the coexistence of a National Health System (NHS), compulsory social insurance and a strong voluntary private healthcare system. The NHS provides universal coverage to the population and in addition, the entire population is covered by social insurance funds and 15 percent of the population maintains...

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