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RFID and Speech Recognition
Caroline Hommez This new issue of IT@Networking Communications starts with a topic which reflects one of our magazine Hospital’s heading, namely outsourcing. Indeed, IT is often the first area hospital managers look to when considering outsourcing one of their activities. It is a costly field, one that evolves quickly...
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Outsourcing of IT
Authors Professor Nir Menachemi, PhD is an expert in medical informatics and has extensively published his academic work examining the organizational and clinical benefits of IT adoption in healthcare. He holds a faculty position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (U.S.). Peter Ginter, PhD is a U.S....
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The RFID Opportunity for Healthcare
Author Catalina Ciolan and Tosh Sheshabalaya, European Association of Healthcare IT Managers, Brussels, Belgium Email : [email protected] RFID (radio frequency identification) devices have been visibly gaining acceptance across a variety of industries, principally for supply chain management in fast-moving...
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RFID as a Contribution to Patient Safety
Authors H.-J. Schubert, Director General C. Bildgen, Deputy Director of Administration, S. Duhr, Deputy Director of Medicine G. Wolfers, Head of Information Technology St. Louis Hospital, Ettelbrück,, Luxembourg Email: [email protected] The aspiration to...
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IT Extends Ethics Equity
Authors Professor David Seedhouse. Professor of Health and Social Ethics. Auckland University. New Zealand Jim Walpole. Behavioural Nurse Therapist and Project Co-ordinator for the Values Exchange. South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom ...
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Telehealth 2007
DG Infso (Information Society) organised a conference on telemedicine, as a chronic disease management tool, on December 11 in Brussels. This was one of the steps developed by the Commission to identify barriers to broad telemedicine development. Other concrete actions for the European Union institutions, member states, regions, industries, user organisations...
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Documentation and Archiving
Author Caroline Hommez In this issue, we have decided to focus on one of the least excitingly, yet most crucial aspects of ehealth and telemedicine, namely documentation and archiving. All of the broad ehealth intitiatives ongoing in Europe, on national or hospital level, (EPR, PACS,…) rely on a strong, secure, and well organized documentation...
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Ease of Use
Author Sandra Pfeiffer, Editor-in-Chief, Philips Medical Systems Böblingen, Germany Email: [email protected] When it comes to the ease of use of PACS, technical aspects (software, screen, and so on) are obvious. But the working environment is equally important. Many organisations see furniture and...
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Teledermatology as a Service Tool for Hospitals.
Author Dr. Leonard Witkamp, Director of KSYOS TeleMedical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Email: [email protected] The broad and upscaled use of telemedicine is hampered by rigid decision structures, slow adaptation processes and concerns for its consequences. Health Management Practice (HMP) addresses...
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RFID: Revolution in the Health System
Author Dr Andrea Huber Managing Director, Informationsforum RFID e.V. c/o Hartmut Schultz Kommunikation GmbH Munich, Germany Email: [email protected] Today, radio frequency identification (RFID) is increasingly being used in hospital management. RFID increases patient safety and...
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