• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Opens Office in Brussels, Belgium

    The new office of HIMSS Europe Middle East & Africa (EMEA) officially opened in Brussels on 1st September 2006, with Michael Strübin named as HIMSS EMEA Executive Director. HIMSS Chief Operating Officer Norris Orms, CAE, will work with Mr. Strübin as the HIMSS North America liaison and contact. The new HIMSS initiative is focused on bringing...

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  • Omnilab Presents “Product Roadmap” for Labonline

    Omnilab is an Italian company that offers a comprehensive middleware system for managing clinical laboratory operations including pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical sample processing. LABONLINE, the company’s flagship middleware product for clinical laboratories, has been designed to address weaknesses of legacy Laboratory Information...

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  • dbMotion

    The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), a leading integrated healthcare enterprise, and dbMotion, provider of web-based data-sharing and integration technology, announced on October 19th an $84 million initiative to create one of the largest models of true interoperability in healthcare. dbMotion’s technology will provide a flexible...

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  • Ensuring the Security of Radiological Networks

    Authors Giacomo Luccichenti, MD StaffNeuroradiologist Dept of Radiology IRCCS Fondation Santa Lucia Rome, Italy [email protected] www.hsantalucia.it   NhanNgoDinh Chief Technical Officer Dilogix S.r.l. Rome, Italy [email protected]   Giulio Evangelisti SystemSecurityManager...

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  • Managing Security Access

    Author Chris Sullivan Vice President, Customer Solutions Courion Corporation [email protected] www.courion.com With aging populations, healthcare continues to expand into one of the largest industries across the European Union. Along with this have come vast changes in both organisational structures and supporting technologies....

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  • A Holistic Approach to Date Management

    Authors Dr. Hanna Pohjonen Healthcare IT Consultant Rosalieco Oy Espoo, Finland [email protected]   Prof. Hans Blickman Chairman Dept. of Radiology UMC St. Radboud Nijmegen, TheNetherlands [email protected]   There is no doubt that the installation of a Picture Archiving...

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  • Redundant Mini-PACS as a Back up and Migration Tool

    RIS / PACS Specifications Since 1999, the University Clinic Essen has been using Medora from Innomed, Germany, as its Radiology Information System (RIS). In December 2001, the decision was made to introduce a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) into the Radiology Department and the product chosen was Centricity from GE Medical Systems,...

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  • Andalucía – A Regional eHealth Success Story

    Authors María Jesús Montero, Regional Minister of Health, Andalucía Andalucía As the Member States of the European Union continue to make progress in implementing eHealth tools and solutions, regional plans are already well under way in some Member States. One such notable case is that of the Andalucía Region in Spain,...

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  • The Spanish Health Informatics Society (SEIS)

    The Spanish Health Informatics Society is a not-for-profit association of more than five hundred health and technical professionals with interests in improving and promoting the use of information and communication technologies in healthcare. SEIS was formed on 24 June 1997 and has become a common place of participation for computer science engineers,...

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  • eHealth is Worth it

    Authors Dr. Karl A. Stroetmann (top picture) empirica Communication and Technology Research [email protected] www.empirica.com   Alexander Dobrev empirica Communication and Technology Research [email protected] www.empirica.de www.ehealth-impact.org When the eHealth...

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