• Uncluttered Management Thinking

    Imagine an operating room with surgeons and scrub nurses operating on a patient. Imagine they all had a different understanding of the word ‘surgery’. Imagine they were unsure about their tasks, competencies, and responsibilities. Imagine they would evaluate their performance by the duration of the operation rather than by the outcome. Imagine they...

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    Call for Proposals Challenge 5: ICT for Health

    • IT
    • 22/08/2012

    The European Commission has issued a call for proposals for challenge 5 of its ICT for Health programme.   Challenge 5 builds on the previous re

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    Rolling out New Medical Products in the Market: Simulation Helps Reduc

    • IT
    • 20/08/2012

    When new medical products are rolled out in the market, staff need to learn their proper use. Frequently, this phase produces significant risks...

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  • Survey Shows Generational Divide Poses Challenge to Adoption

    An Accenture survey of more than 3,700 doctors across eight countries has found that healthcare IT is improving health practices and there is common agreement on the top benefits of technology across countries. But some physicians do not yet see all the benefits, especially those over 50 or those who are not actively using healthcare IT, such as electronic...

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  • Structured Reporting

    Dear readers,  IMAGING Management has long stood for the professional development of competency and excellence, not just in medical imaging management, but all the ancillary roles of a healthcare leader. We are therefore delighted to support the first dedicated Management in Radiology (MIR) led workshop taking place on Saturday, March 3, at 13.00...

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  • The Nominees

    Ágora - Lightweight EHR Viewer  The EHR viewer (Ágora) in the Murcia Health Service displays real-time patient clinical information that is distributed across diverse and heterogeneous data sources in less than three seconds. Acting as mediator between its various information systems, Ágora simulates data centralisation without large-scale data storage....

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  • Advanced Computer Software Group

    Advanced Computer Software Group, a leading provider of software and IT services to the UK health, care and business sectors has announced that it now supplies mobile devices inclusive of airtime as part of its iConnect and iNurse mobile working solutions - providing a complete “one stop shop” for mobile working in the community care sector. Advanced’s...

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  • IT @ Networking Awards Winner 2011

    In 2011 the IT@Networking Awards expanded its remit to include healthcare IT and medical technology products from across the globe and Prachi Shukla took first prize with her inspiring healthcare for the rural poor project in India. The project combines technology with village entrepreneurs acting as facilitators to connect rural communities with...

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  • Bedside Detection of Awareness in the Vegetative State

    Detecting signs of awareness in patients recovering from coma is still a huge challenge for clinicians. Indeed, a high rate of misdiagnosis was highlighted in this population showing that up to 40 percent of vegetative patients are in fact conscious (i.e. minimally conscious state). Clinically, the assessment of consciousness is based on behavioural...

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  • E-Prescribing in the ICU Engaging Authentic User Participation

    The healthcare sector is subject to great technological change in an effort to improve current practice and patient safety. While the use of information technology has been encouraged as a solution to improve patient safety and reduce medication errors, appropriate methods must be applied to the design and development of such systems to ensure they...

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