• A Telemedicine Platform for Shared Case Files

    University Hospital Erlangen creates Internet-based telematics platform for shared case files in a range of application scenarios The University Hospital Erlangen together with a second surgical centre and more than 90 external eye specialists have entered into an IGV contract (integrated care service - interdisciplinary) for the treatment...

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  • Information Management for Patients in Transition

    Author Ragnhild Hellesø, RN, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Oslo, and Norwegian Research Centre for Electronic Patient Records, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Email: [email protected]...

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  • DataCenter for Filing Medical Data

    Author Hervé BARGE Program Director / Program Manager Information System - Telemedecine ARH de Franche Comté, CMSIH MAINH   Franche Comté: A pioneer in patient medical filing and identification will have a DataCenter for filing medical data at its disposal .   Confident since 2000 of the issues of...

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  • Documentation Computerisation

    Author Martin Peacock Systems Development Officer Information Management Services Department Mater Misericoridiae University Hospital Dublin, Ireland Email : [email protected]   The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital is a charitable voluntary hospital which has been delivering healthcare...

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  • The World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition 2007

    Author Catalina Ciolan The recent World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition (WHT’07), held 22-25 October in Vienna, Austria offered, over the course of four days, an array of satellite symposia, perspectives from world leaders, peer-identified educational sessions as well as 59 vendor exhibitors.   This year’s supporters...

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  • IT Governance

    Caroline Hommez IT is still often seen as an alien creature, a rather scary entity that you have to tolerate in your hospital as a ‘sign of the times’, but that you would not invite to a weekly staff meeting, let alone a board meeting.   The problem is that this attitude most probably has detrimental effects on hospital management....

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  • Governing the Hospital Information System

    Author Claude Hagège, Director of Information Systems, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Paris, France. He is the author of ‘Gouverner le SIH’ (‘Governing HIS’) published in December 2006 by LEH ( www.leh.fr ).   From the centralised IT systems approach of the 1980s to the information system approach...

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  • Mobile Consultant: Diagnosis and Consultation on the Go

    Authors Konstantinos A. Banitsas, School of Engineering and Design, E&CE, Brunel University, West London, England Theodoros K. Kalyvas, GERCO LTD, Athens, Greece Pantelis Georgiadis Medical Image and Signal Processing Lab, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece...

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  • The Elderly, Who (e-)Cares?

    Authors Annelies Veys and An Jacobs, Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (www.ibbt.be), Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication (smit.vub.ac.be), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium Email: [email protected]   In the far north of Norway,...

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  • Healthcare IT Needs A ‘People Side’ Too

    Searching through the programme for the World of Health IT (WHIT) conference and exhibition, which takes place in Vienna from 22-25 October, what stands out is the evident commitment on behalf of the organisers to engage with as many stakeholders as possible.   The 2006 event in Geneva drew around 2,000 attendees and was certainly a success...

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