• A Telemedicine Framework for Collaborative Pacemaker Follow-up

    Contact A.   Kollmann Austrian Research Centers GmbH - ARC Biomedical Engineering / eHealth systems Reininghausstrasse 13/18020 Graz, Austria E-mail: [email protected]   Pacemaker (PM) implantation is only the first step of therapy for patients suffering from several heart...

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  • Metropolitan PACS and Support Network

    Authors Michal Javornik and Otto Dostal Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic E-Mail: [email protected]   Tools to share medical knowledge, to support and assist in decision-making and to provide relevant and accurate sources of information for scientific research all enhance...

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  • Mobile Connections in Healthcare

    The turnover in the European healthcare industry will more than double over the next five years and mobile phone based medical services could even become the cornerstone of healthcare in future.   Responding to this development, (E-)Hospital has decided to continue its IT supplement, which appeared for the first time in 2005. We would...

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  • An Up-to-Date Evaluation of Clinical Data Processing

    Author Prof. Paul Schmücker University of Mannheim, Germany Faculty of Informatics Specialty: Medical Informatics E-mail: [email protected] www.mm.informatik.hs-mannheim.de/schmueckerp   The health sector is undergoing a period of consolidation as the number of acquisitions and mergers...

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  • €6 Billion for Health Research in Europe

    The deadline for funding applications for health projects under the 7 th Framework Programme for Research is 19 April 2007   The European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development – FP7 for short – officially commenced on 1 January 2007. The programme, which will run from 2007 until 2013, has...

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  • Telemonitoring – Telemedicine Applications with New Concepts

    At least 35% of men aged 60 years and over suffer from two or more long-term illnesses. In addition, secondary conditions associated with long-term illness increase with age, a tendency that is even more pronounced in women 1 . In Denmark, for example, long-term illness affects an estimated 40% of the population. Non-communicable diseases, along with...

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  • Connecting Mobile Users to the Hospital Information System

    Author Prof. Horst Kunhardt Head of Informatics at Mainkofen Regional Hospital Quality Co-ordinator 94469 Deggendorf [email protected] www.mainkofen.de University of Applied Sciences Deggendorf Faculty of Business Studies and Business Informatics Teaching Field: Business Applications...

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  • 3G Technology in Telemedicine

    Authors Konstantinos A. Banitsas E&CE, School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, West London, England E-mail: [email protected]   Konstantinos Perakis and Dimitrios Koutsouris Biomedical Engineering lab, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Theodoros...

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  • Emergency Medicine on the Threshold of the Digital Age

    Emergency Medicine European legislation governing the medical profession requires that all relevant medical events related to the treatment of patients are chronologically logged. For this reason, emergency medical teams use a log to record medical events. This information is currently recorded by hand, usually on the journey to hospital or...

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  • Personal Health Systems on EU Agenda, Brussels

    Author Michael Palmer Project Officer European Commission Information Society and Media Directorate-General Unit H1 - ICT for Health, BU31 6/14 - B-1049 Brussels, Belgium E-mail: [email protected]   How best to harness the potential of technology supporting personalised care was discussed at...

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