Volume 6 / Issue 3 / 2011
- IT
- 12/12/2011
COVER: Social Media FEATURES: The Ethics of Online Healthcare; Data Centre Trends; Teleradiology COUNTRY FOCUS: Switzerland
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Spain
The Tajo Hospital in Madrid started implementing an SMS reminder system for medical appointments at the start of October 2011. This new means of communication has been made possible thanks to a new mobile device application developed by the hospital's Admissions Service and IT Department. The new software sends an SMS notifying patients of the date,...
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Isoft
Steve Freeborn, a renowned pharmacist and contributor to the landmark report on medication errors, "A Spoonful of Sugar - Medicines management in NHS hospitals", will be among the speakers at iSOFT-sponsored e-prescribing conferences at Wembley on 20 October and Old Trafford on 10 November. Freeborn's keynote address, "There and back again - a pharmacist's...
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Sectra
St. Marien-Hospital Borken, Germany, which is a member of a hospital network, is digitising its radiology operation and has signed a five-year agreement with the IT and medicaltechnology company Sectra. The order includes Sectra PACS for processing and archiving of digital radiology images, which will be integrated into the hospitals' RIS and existing...
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IT@Networking Awards 2012
The IT @ Networking Awards 2012 (IT@2012) is an open competition for fully implemented, operable healthcare IT solutions. IT@2012 will identify some of the fi nest and most innovative departmental, institutional, local, regional and national healthcare solutions. Intelligent medical technology and IT increase costeffectiveness, productivity and...
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Telemedicine Shop Talk
There is no doubt that telemedicine will play a huge part in healthcare in the future but telemedicine is a complex topic requiring further discussion. For this reason the Telemedicine Shop Talk was organised in October in Brussels. Telemedicine holds powerful promises for European health systems in need of adjusting to demographic changes and the...
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E-Health and Equity in the Global Health Communities
An initiative of the eHealth Unit, DG INFSO, European Commission, the workshop on 'eHealth and Equity in the Global Health Communities' will take place in Brussels, on December 15, at European Commission premises. The potential of e-Health to help strengthen health systems and to improve the safety, quality and efficiency of care was recognised by...
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Innovation to Diffusion
Dr. Karl Stroetmann of empirica GmbH presented initial considerations on the issues and challenges of moving " From Innovation to Diffusion - Towards successful deployment of eHealth applications" at the recent 2nd European Evaluation Methods Concentration Meeting in Brussels, Sept. 08, 2011. Dr. Stroetmann described how it is not innovations such...
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The Ethics of Online Healthcare
For many people, e-health services and telemedicine provide convenient and flexible ways to manage their healthcare. However, a major enquiry by the uk-based independent nuffield council on bioethics has identified a number of ethical questions and challenges associated with various forms of online healthcare. The council's report, medical profiling...
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What Can Healthcare Learn from the Financial Crisis?
Dear Reader, Today, the financial crisis has once again hit us very hard. Greed still plays havoc with the international stock markets. As banks have grown too big to fail, in 2008 our politicians decided to bail them out with our tax money. Many of us lost savings due to the irresponsible actions of the banking sector without any consequences for...
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