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Letter from the Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief, (HITM)
Dear Readers, On February 17, US President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Known by its acronym ARRA, the legal measure is one of the most ambitious commitments to healthcare IT anywhere, anytime. Mr. Obama plans to pump-prime the US economy through investments in healthcare (alongside energy and...
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IBM
3-D Electronic Patient Record Researchers at IBM are testing a 3-D version of an electronic patient record at Thy-Mors Hospital, Northern Denmark. The software creates a medical information hub and even includes an avatar (Sanskrit for incarnation), which was created by scientists at IBM’s Zurich Research laboratory....
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Health2.0 Seminar in the Netherlands
Nictiz, the National IT Institute for Healthcare in the Netherlands, organised a seminar on Health2.0 on February 12, 2009. The seminar promoted Health2.0 as a way to empower patients and emphasised the fact that the majority of patients research information on the Internet before visiting a physician. Health2.0 applications allow cooperation...
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Radiology 2009:Medical Informatics and Telemedicine
The Ukrainian Association for Computer Medicine is organising a satellite scientific and practical symposium, “Radiology 2009, Medical Informatics and Telemedicine” during the “Modern Information and Electronic Technology” conference on May 21-22, 2009 in Odessa. The symposium is an opportunity for constructive dialogue, commercial contracts,...
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National E-Health Strategies:EC-Fund Study Looks at Progress and Barriers
A new study funded by the European Commission is assessing the progress made to date towards the realisation of European eHealth Action Plan goals. Good practices and lessons learned constitute the study’s key elements. The results will be fed into policy recommendations for further accelerating eHealth implementation. The study has...
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The Prague Declaration on E-Health
The e-Health Conference 2009 in Prague (eHealth for Individuals, Society and Economy) has been followed by the recent of The Prague Declaration. This emphasises the progress already made in e-Health by both Member States and the European Union. It also notes that the benefits of e- Health for a safe and efficient health sector have long been recognised...
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Customising Healthcare IT
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, In spite of considerable progress in user-directed flexibility, many off-the-shelf software packages still lack key real-world features and fail to meet the requirements of users, especially smaller ones. Unlike a new suit or television set, IT users can rarely afford to throw away an old system and start...
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E-Health Investments
Author Alexander Dobrev, empirica Tom Jones, TanJent Consulting Karl A. Stroetmann, empirica The increase in demand for health services tends more and more often to outstrip the increase in supply. Ageing populations, increasing incidence of chronic diseases, and improvements in medical knowledge...
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Predicting Patients Admission Rates
Author Justin Boyle, is a Research Scientist with CSIRO Australia Evidence-based research demonstrates that overcrowding in emergency departments causes ambulance diversion, increased hospital lengths of stay, medical errors, increased patient mortality, financial losses to hospital and physician, and medical negligence...
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Nanotechnology and Healthcare
Author Paul J.A. Borm, is with Magnamedics Diagnostics BV at Geleen and Centre of Expertise in Life Sciences, Zuyd University, Heerlen, Netherlands Recent years have witnessed unprecedented growth of research and applications in the area of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. There is increasing optimism...
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