Author Michael Tan is a Project Manager at NICTIZ, Netherlands As Europe moves from national healthcare IT programmes towards full-fledged e-Health services, many experts see e-Prescribing as a key foundational step. There is a strong business case, accompanied by equally strong perceptions, that improving...
READ MOREECRI Institute Europe Weltech Centre Ridgeway Welwyn Garden City Herts AL7 2AA United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1707 871511 Fax: +44 (0)1707 393138 [email protected] www.ecri.org.uk ECRI Institute, a non-profit organisation, dedicates itself to bringing the discipline of applied scientific...
READ MOREAuthor David Kwo is Managing Director, Ubiquity Healthcare, UK Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is moving towards vertical integration of healthcare services as exemplified by the ‘Integrated Care Pilot Programme’ launched in October 2008. Vertical integration is where the full range of health providers...
READ MOREOn the occasion of the first anniversary of the European Centre for Health Technology, HITM’s Yana Konstantinova interviewed Kåre Finbak, the Managing Director of this Health Centre of Excellence. Mr. Finbak is also the Director for Business Development at HP Norway. Mr. Finbak, We Have Understood That Recently There Were Some Changes...
READ MOREThe European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (HITM) is a non-profit pan-European umbrella association of all relevant national healthcare IT associations in Europe. Believing in the fundamental importance of unifying healthcare IT professionals at European and global levels, HITM is committed to increasing the professional authority...
READ MORETieto and Intersystem Create Swedish National Electronic Health Record InterSystems has announced the initial stage of the Swedish National Patient Summary project. The first Electronic Health Record for Sweden has been launched, which is a vital part of the implementation programme of the National IT Strategy for the healthcare and welfare...
READ MOREIBM Outlines New Model for Healthcare IBM has announced a major healthcare study of Patient Centred Medical Home (PCMH) that underscores the critical need for a new model of care. It is committed to primary-care based, coordinated, proactive, preventive, acute, chronic and longterm and end-of-life care, which are identified as a possible foundation for...
READ MOREThe second international CST conference on electronic healthcare will be held September 23 - 25, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. The event offers the opportunity of bringing together experts from the industry field, global healthcare institutions and academics in order to share experience with world healthcare service providers and policy makers. ...
READ MOREEuroMISE Centre, The European Centre for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology together with the Institute of Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Statistics and Epidemiology and Guarant International Ltd. are organising the 30th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics....
READ MOREThe European Health Telematics Observatory (EHTO) is taking part in the CENTERIS’2009 conference in Ofir, Portugal on October 7 - 9, 2009. This event will be coorganised by the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave and the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. The public will consist of academics, scientists, IT professionals, managers...
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