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Personal Health System to Empower Patients
The European Commission’s Personal Health Systems (PHS) conference was held at the European Parliament in Brussels on February 12 and 13. The PHS conference focused on finding the best routes to boost the development and deployment of PHS, and the wider field of e-Health systems, in the context of an ageing society. It sought to bring together the...
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New Orleans Welcomes HIMSS07
The recent HIMSS07 Annual Conference & Exhibition, held February 25 -March 1, 2007 opened its doors to participants from all over the world in New Orleans, US. This year, the conference’s theme was “Where ideas become solutions”. The number of participants registered by February 18 was 25,000, comfortably exceeding last year’s figures. Steve Lieber,...
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Cost-Benefit of Telecardiology
Author HITM interview with Mr. Dean Westcott HITM: Please Tell Us a Little bit About ACCA’s Role in the Telecardiology e-Health Cost/Benefit Study that was Undertaken on Dehalf of the European Commission’s Information Society and Media Directorate General ? Westcott : ACCA, as you know, is the world’s...
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German Presidency and the EU Healthcare Agenda
In the healthcare sector, the German Presidency has defined health promotion, innovation and access to healthcare as its priorities. Its specific aims are: î to achieve Lisbon Agenda goals on health issues î to finalise the health action programme until 2013 î to draw a community framework on health services, patient mobility...
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Laboratory Information Systems
ECRI (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute) is a nonprofit health services research agency and a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization (WHO). Such organisations are appointed to contribute to the WHO’s public health mission by providing specialise knowledge, expertise and support in the health field to the WHO and its...
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A Unified Systems Engineering Methodology for Trustworthy Systems
Formal models help, but the essence is formalised thinking Eric Verhulst is director of the Open License Society. More information at www.OpenLicenseSociety.org Why Projects Fail As our systems grow in complexity, so does the software content. And software engineering as such is not yet a fully...
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SNOMED CT-Enabling Systamatic Interoperablity Throught Clinical Terminology
Author Theo Bosma is Vice President of Global Sales at Health Language, Inc., which services the worldwide healthcare industry through innovative software infrastructure technology and expertise. For cited references, please contact [email protected] What is Semantic Interoperability?...
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The OFEK Health Information Network
For medical practitioners, missing clinical information is as much an everyday nuisance as hard reality. Current efforts to create health information networks (HIN) seek to directly tackle this problem. However, with a handful of exceptions, progress has been uneven. It may be several years before technically integrated, seamless and comprehensive...
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Healthcare Reforms and IT
Ovarview Recent healthcare reforms in the Netherlands have been relatively radical. The State has been replaced as the central player in day-to-day operation of the healthcare system by private health suppliers, although the government remains responsible for accessibility and quality of healthcare. Alongside, the previous difference...
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Interview with Drs.Ellen Maat,Director of Healthcare ICT,Netherlands Health Ministry
HITM: Hospital IT departments are at the center of many changes such as e-Health and e-business. Will the new reforms have implications for hospital IT departments ? Drs. Ellen Maat: In our view, e-Health describes the application of information and communication technologies across the whole range of functions that affect the healthcare...
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