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Letter From the Executive Director,HITM
Dear Reader, This issue of our journal marks the second year of publication a significant milestone for many organisations. It also corresponds to the start of a period when healthcare IT moves up Europe’s policy agenda. The EU’s new Seventh Framework Programme on research highlights healthcare as one of seven key Challenges for the future. Explicit...
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FP7 Research Programme
What’s in IT for Healthcare IT Managers FP7 is composed of four specific programmes (see box). In a fluid fashion, these interface into seven key Research Challenges that seek to ensure Europe becomes a world leader in IT. Under the banner ‘A Healthcare Revolution’, No. 5, is an explicit opportunity for healthcare IT....
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Future of the European Laboratory Informations Systems Market
Author Konstantinos Nikolopoulos is a Healthcare IT Industry Analyst with Frost & Sullivan. Frost & Sullivan ( www.frost.com ) is a global growth consulting company, which has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more than 40 years. Introduction to LIS...
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Reducing Security Risk to E-Health
Author Blake Suthherland is vice president of product management at Third Brigade. The New Threat Until recently, attention-seeking hackers were the main IT security threat to businesses, including healthcare organisations. These types of mass attacks often had no particular target in mind; they would simply...
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Benifits of Open Source in Healthcare
Author Shahid N. Shah is CEO of Netspective Communications, a software consultancy specialised in delivering custom healthcare software solutions. The Benefits of Open Source Visibility: If a vendor open sources its software, its visibility will be increased because it’s not proprietary and the press, competitors,...
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Implementing a Successful Cultural Change
Author James Rizzi is Director, Computational Technology, at Array BioPharma, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialisation of orally active drugs to address significant unmet medical needs. Array’s Decision on ELN: Motives and Origins In 1999, our...
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iSOFT
The Ministry of Health and Social Services for the Spanish region of Cantabria has awarded iSOFT a major contract for software solutions designed to manage requests for diagnostic hospital tests at all centres within the region’s health service. The project, to be conducted in collaboration with local companies Indesis Consultoría Sanitaria and...
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C2C presented Medical Images Organiser (MIO™) at the World of Health IT 2006
C2C presented MIO™in collaboration with Cisco Systems, Inc., at Cisco’s booth at the recent World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition (10-13 October, Geneva). MIO™ is a software integration tool that acts as a DICOM Gateway allowing the storage of several types of images in one single repository. MIO™ is flexible, easy to implement, cost effective,...
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Responsibility for the Protection of Patient Information
Author Ellen K. Christiansen Legal adviser Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine,university Hospital ofNorthNorway [email protected] www.telemed.no/index.php?cat=4259 The Empowered Patient The emergence of the “empowered patient” raises the issue of whether this should influence legislation concerning...
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Facts and Figures: The Spanish Healthcare System
Healthcare System & Administration Spain has a public healthcare system, mainly financed by taxes. As a result, healthcare in Spain is either free or low cost for residents (and their dependents) paying social security. The national healthcare system covers 99.7% of the Spanish population. The remaining 0.3% only has access to private medical...
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