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Transforming Clinicials' Workflow-The Case for Mobile Point of Care
Author Dr.med. Igor Jenco and Dr. med. Juraj Bazar, DFN Kosice, Slovakia. Dr.med. Pavel Kubu, I ntel Czech Trading, Inc., Czech Republic. The Košice Children’s Teaching Hospital is widely regarded as a centre of excellence for Eastern and Central Slovakia....
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Health IT Stimulus: Obama's Dream or Nightmare
Author Dr. Miroslav Madjaric, CIO and Advisor to the CEO, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Croatia. In two previous issues, HIT presented an overview of plans by President Barack Obama concerning stimulation of health IT implementation in the US. To recap, the Obama vision relates to governmental...
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Healthcare in United Kingdom
Author Andrew Corbett-Nolan, Chair, Institute of Healthcare Management, London The United Kingdom (UK) is comprised of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and is situated within the British Isles. A constitutional monarchy governed from Parliaments in London and Edinburgh, and Assemblies in Cardiff and...
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On-Demand IT Services
Author Rob Phillips, Director of Consulting, Service-Now.com, USA Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is disrupting the status quo in the software industry while delivering real benefits to support the unique requirements of healthcare IT. Software applications using the Internet as the exclusive development and delivery...
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The 'Virtual Human' Healthcare Model
A pan-European personalised healthcare project entitled the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Human Network of Excellence (NoE) may be about to revolutionise healthcare treatment and diagnosis. The 72 million euro project is funded under the ICT Theme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). It aims to help support and progress European...
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E-Health on Track According to the European Commission
The European Commission has published an update on its Lead Market Initiative (LMI) for e-health. The report indicates that it is too early to notice any market growth as a result of the LMI activities. E-Health was chosen to be one of the six markets of the LMI due to its market potential in terms of growing demand and market growth opportunities,...
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IBM
IBM Software to Protect Patients in the Event of Medical Device Recalls Implanet, a manufacturer of implantable medical devices, has selected IBM sensor technology as the foundation for BeepN'Track, a new service that traces the movement of Implanet's products – including knee and hip implants - across its supply chain to hospitals. ...
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New Associate Member
ESEM, the European Society for Engineering and Medicine HITM is proud to announce a new Associate Member: ESEM, the European Society for Engineering and Medicine “Educating students and professionals in bridging the disciplines”. Focus of ESEM: 1. Educating professionals in bridging healthcare and engineering by: Ó Organising...
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Germany
Ten Point Plan for Medical Technology BVMed has published a ten-point plan for the care of patients with advanced medical technology as a basis for health policy discussions due to take place in the coming months along with the German Bundestag election campaign. The ten points are: 1. The quality rating of medical devices...
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Healthcare IT in Britain: NHS National Programme for IT (NPFIT)
Healthcare IT in Britain is today symbolised, rather starkly, by the troubled NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). This ambitious initiative was meant to catapult Britain into pole position in the global e-health readiness league. It sought to link more than 30,000 GPs to nearly 300 hospitals, provide comprehensive e-prescribing and develop a centralised...
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