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Letter from the Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief, HITM
Dear Readers, Amidst what may be the greatest economic downturn since the 1930s, 2009 promises to be a memorable year. Opinions about the impact of the recession on the healthcare sector are mixed, but there seems to be a consensus that it will be less vulnerable than many others. Meanwhile, the recent presidential elections...
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Lithuania
Successful Implementation of the ‘eHealth Services’ Project Lithuania’s “eHealth Services” Project is part of the development of a national eHealth system by the country’s Ministry of Health. Jointly funded by the Lithuanian Government and the European Union, the project entails the design, installation and operation of hospital information...
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Catrene
Catrene Launches New Call for Project Proposals The recent EUREKA programme CATRENE (Cluster for Application and Technology Research in Europe on NanoElectronics) has launched a call for project proposals. The programme is open to Europe’s high tech industry, small and medium sized enterprises, research institutes and academia. CATRENE...
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The World of Health IT 2008 Conference and Exhibition
The 2008 World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition continued to address the perspectives of clinicians, directors and other healthcare professionals, by offering Ó Educational sessions Ó Vendor exhibitions Ó Best practice exchange Ó IHE Interoperability Showcase Ó Networking sessions Ó Continuing Medical...
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Mcdica Congress 2008
The four days of the trade fair (and three days of COMPAMED) including the accompanying MEDICA Congress 2008 and the Deutscher Krankenhaustag (German Hospital Congress) saw a total of 137,000 registered visitors. The 4,313 exhibitors participating at MEDICA presented a complete spectrum of new products, services and processes for use in doctors’...
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Robotics in Medicine and Healthcare
The European Commission has recently funded an investigation into the potential of robotics entitled “Roadmap for the application of robotics in medicine and healthcare.” Although still an emerging field, the use of robotics is expected to grow in importance with current demographic changes. This is likely to put pressure on the healthcare...
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'I Have a Dream'-Barack Obama's Healthcare IT Vision
Tosh Sheshabalaya, The November 2008 US presidential elections have brought to the White House one of the country’s most resolute champions of healthcare reforms in recent memory. Barack Obama is – and has also long been a proponent of IT as a way to bring about efficiencies to the country’s bloated healthcare spend, and the deep rooted structural...
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Integrating the Health Enterprise:The IHE Mission
The fast-evolving field of e-Health standards is both a puzzle and a challenge to many healthcare IT managers. As the age of electronic health records (EHRs) approaches by the day, it is self-evident that optimal patient care will require care providers to create, access, update and use these records both efficiently and securely. ...
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Smart Cards and Healthcare:Learning from Europe
Therese R. Revesz, Principal at Revesz International LLC, New York. Having already proven themselves in Europe, smart cards hold immense promise for all segments of the US healthcare industry: insurers, public and private sector providers and patients. Convenient, portable, intelligent and secure, smart cards combine storage...
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Healthcare IT in Belgium
The legislative framework for e-Health in Belgium overlaps several existing laws and rules, ranging from privacy and data protection to certification of medical software and liability for devices. The key bodies officially developing the e-Health programme are the federal Health Ministry and the State Secretariat for Informatics. ...
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