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Accepting Chaos
Sir, Jim Quiggle's feature on 'Enterprise Architecture' (Issue 3/4, 2010) needs to be showcased because of two factors, both of which are rare in the IT world: to make a case for the fact that our business is still more art than science, and secondly, that like good artists, we must understand and accept chaos. After all, one of the most cutting-edge...
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Slovakia - epSOS Projectathon
An epSOS Projectathon was held in Slovakia to test whether the interoperability of country's healthcare systems meets epSOS specifications. The conclusion was a positive one with epSOS determining that 10 pilot sites can begin sharing real patient data from early next year. epSOS, a large scale European pilot of patient summary and electronic prescription,...
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Estonian Study on Patient Views on Health Digitisation
The Centre for Ethics at the University of Tartu is conducting a study analysing the effects of the digitisation of health data and of patient-doctor communications. In the last few years, Estonia has gradually digitized much of its healthcare system with health information moving to the Internet. Paper prescriptions have been replaced by digital prescriptions...
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The Netherlands - Vendors Team Up to Improve Interoperability of Radiology IT Systems
November saw the second Dutch eRadiology test event take place at St. Antonius Hospital in Utrecht. The objective was to bring together pre-competitive vendors to iron out any integration problems with IT systems and to foster interoperability between them. The specificity of the Dutch system is the provision of a personal unique service number for...
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MEPs Discuss eHealth Interoperability and the Role of ICT to Address Healthcare Challenges
On November 16 2010, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Milan Cabrnoch hosted the 'Crossing boundaries in ehealth: the CALLIOPE think tank and collaboration platform' at the European Parliament. The meeting began with opening remarks by Mr Cabrnoch and a presentation on the European strategy for e-health. Zoi Kolitsi, CALLIOPE Project Coordinator,...
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2011 eHealth Week Focus on Benefits of IT Solutions In Healthcare
The European eHealth sector's 'event of the year', jointly organised by the European Commission, HIMSS Europe (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Europe) and the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU has announced that eHealth Week 2011 will focus on the cost and quality benefits of IT solutions in healthcare. The four-day...
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Renewing Health Project: Pan-European Telemedicine Data Expected In 2012
RENEWING Health (REgioNs of Europe WorkINg toGether for HEALTH), a European pilot project aimed at implementing largescale real-life test beds for the validation and subsequent evaluation of innovative telemedicine services, will have all of the participating nine regions running their trials by February 2011, with final results expected by autumn...
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Letter from the Secretary General and Editor-in-Chief, HITM
Dear Reader, 2011 has already brought some exciting developments within the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (HITM), which recently elected both Dr. Josep M. Picas i Vidal, CIO from the University Clinic Sant Pau in Barcelona, Spain as President and Mr. Miroslav Madjaric, CIO from the University Hospital Centre in Zagreb, Croatia as...
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