• Letter from the Publisher

    Dear Reader, While healthcare organisations continuously move towards integrating their healthcare information systems and adopting electronic health records, prescription, laboratory and scheduling systems (amongst others), the scrutiny placed on medical errors increases. As healthcare organisations grapple with these challenges, many questions...

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  • HITM News & Membership Association

    The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (HITM) HITM recently exhibited at the World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition, held 10-13 October in Geneva, Switzerland. The event proved to be a success, providing an opportunity to raise the awareness of HITM and forge new relationships with other healthcare IT-related organisations in...

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  • Membership Association

    Membership As the only pan-European association dedicated to healthcare IT management, HITM offers its members unique opportunities to: + Participate in advocacy em groups that impact EU healthcare IT legislation; + Share your knowledge with and learn from the experiences of your peers; + Learn industry best practices and standards;...

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  • The European Court of Justice

    Author Sonja Planitzer Editor Euromedical Communications [email protected] www.emceurope.com The Court of Justice of the European Communities The Court of Justice of the European Communities (ECJ) is the judicial institution of the European Union. It was set up under the European Coal and Steel Community in...

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  • Baltic eHealth

    Authors Jane Rasmussen Danish Centre for Health Telematics [email protected] www.cfst.dk Henning Voss Danish Centre for Health Telematics [email protected] www.cfst.dk With the introduction of eHealth services to the Baltic Sea Region, the Baltic eHealth project aims to provide for more equal treatment opportunities...

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  • Radiology Information Systems (RIS)

    ECRI (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute) is a non-profit health services research agency and a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organisation (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 member...

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  • Connecting Healthcare, Research and Surveillance

    Healthcare, research and surveillance entities currently operate advantage of modern information technology, a common understanding has to be developed. This can independently, with costly and time-consuming redundant data collection. Considering the rising cost of healthcare, the complexities of research, and the threat of widespread disease, it is...

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  • The eHealth Transformation Key: The Integration Competence Centre

    Author Miguel Cabrer González eHealth Advisor Innovation, Research and Communication Consulting, S.L. [email protected] www.ircconsulting.eu The Integration Question Over the past 10 years, computer-based patient record systems have been increasingly used in hospitals the new technological era we are living...

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  • User-Centric Design of Telecare Services

    Authors SteveBrown Alejandro Rodriguez-Ascaso Torbjørn Sund Bruno vonNiman Specialist Task Force STF299 European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Sophia Antipolis, France [email protected] www.etsi.org A Mass Market for Telecare? Telecare has the potential to resolve many...

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  • Omnilab Selected by Abbott Diagnostics as Supplier for UK Healthcare IT Projects

    Omnilab has been selected by Abbott Diagnostics as the supplier in two large projects in the United Kingdom to provide LABONLINE, the middleware application to interface the preanalytical instruments and diagnostic analyzers to the Laboratory.   Information System. In the first project, a seven-year contract, LABONLINE will be installed...

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