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GE Healthcare
FDA Clearance for Portable ECG Solution The US Food and Drug Administration has authorised GE Healthcare’s latest ECG solution, the portable MAC 800, which is based on cell phone technology. Originally produced in China in 2008, the portable device combines the keypad of a phone with a full size colour display and diagnostic software....
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Bulgaria Launches Electronic Health Records
As the entry point for its first electronic health records, Bulgaria has launched a national health portal. The portal will provide state administration employees access to an electronic version of the paper-based Personal Ambulatory Book that is used to keep track of medical appointments. The Electronic Personal Ambulatory book will give...
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ECR 2009
The 21st European Congress of Radiology took place in Vienna, Austria, from March 6th until the 10th. Accepted as one of the largest radiological meetings worldwide, the Congress showcased the newest products and achievements in technical medicine, pharmacology and specialized media. Since 1991, the congress is held annually in early...
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HIMSS09
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference and Exhibition took place from April 4-8 at McCornick Place in Chicago. The show enabled participants to make more than 1,000 connections with leaders, policy makers, vendors and peers, meet 900 companies demonstrating breakthrough solutions and receive...
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Value Modeling in Healthcare
Author Paul Johannesson is Professor of Information Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Erik Perjons is a research engineer at the Institute. Politicians, healthcare managers, and systems designers need new instruments for managing the complexity of today's healthcare systems. One of...
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Oncology HIS System
Author Andrew Hoole, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University, UK. Edwin Claridge, University Hospital, Birmingham, UK. A Mini HIS for Oncology The selection and integration of appropriate information systems is one of the challenges facing hospital managers in their quest to achieve...
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Healthcare IT Reforms in US
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, In spite of its acknowledged status as the hub of innovation and technology, the US has lagged many other industrialised countries in the area of healthcare IT. The new US President, Barack Obama, has made it a political priority to change this state of affairs, as we discussed in the previous issue...
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Italian Hospitals and New Managerialism
Author Elena Cantu, is with Bocconi University, Milan, Italy From 1978, the Italian healthcare system has been organised according to the National Health Service model (Italian National Health Service, or INHS). Coverage is universal and, theoretically, uniform throughout the country. In 2003, public healthcare expenditure...
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Healthcare IT in India
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, The Indian healthcare system, like India itself, straddles the 19th and 21st centuries. But while the country’s 19th century face of slums and poverty is better known, the 21st century end is quietly readying itself to gain a major presence on the global healthcare IT scene. HIPAA and IBM’s...
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IBA Health Group Limited
Lorenzo to be Adopted in Two More German Hospitals The German hospital group, Krankenhaus Buchholz and Winsen, is set to become the latest iSOFT customer for LORENZO. With iCS (iSOFT Collaboration Suite), Krankenhaus Buchholz and Winsen provide GPs access to hospital patient records using a standard web-browser. eFA, created as an...
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