Volume 4 / Issue 1 / 2009
- IT
- 04/01/2009
COVER: From E-Health to I-Health MANAGEMENT: Asset Management: From Hospital Bedding to Software FEATURES: ‘I Have A Dream’ – Barack...
READ MORECOVER: From E-Health to I-Health MANAGEMENT: Asset Management: From Hospital Bedding to Software FEATURES: ‘I Have A Dream’ – Barack...
READ MORECarestream Showcase Latest Innovations for Radiology and IT at ECR 2009 At the annual meeting of the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), Carestream Health will demonstrate its latest digital imaging and IT solutions. These innovations, available worldwide in the second quarter of 2009, include latest generation RIS/PACS that will...
READ MORENew Philips and VTT Development Centre in Finland Philips and VTT have jointly opened an InnoHub in Espoo, Finland. The objective is to produce innovative ideas and turn them in to profitable business. The focus areas are health, lifestyle and well-being. The InnoHub provides a real life setting, including a hospital room, nurses...
READ MOREFor the 5th consecutive year, the World Health Care Congress Europe presents business cases, best practices and strategies for addressing the pressure and current challenges facing European health care - efficiency, economic stability, access to care, quality care, patient safety, and patient mobility within and across borders. The WHCCE 2009 brings...
READ MOREThe 7th edition of the annual Med-e-Tel conference in Luxembourg will focus on proven and tested telemedicine applications and provide evidence on clinical effectiveness and economic efficiency as well as on user aspects and satisfaction, and on some dos and don’ts of telemedicine implementation into care processes. EHTEL will be among...
READ MORETraversing Tomorrow’s Healthcare Frontier Tosh Sheshabalaya, Technology is a curious creature. The most meaningful changes not only descend upon us, seemingly out of the blue, but also completely shake up the way we live and work. In addition, what may appear to be The Next New Thing often masks something else, which...
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, de dicates itself to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research...
READ MOREFrom Bedding to Software: Two Cases Asset management and control is an enduring challenge for all hospitals. The scope and scale of hospital ‘assets’ is both vast and heterogeneous. Nevertheless, IT has been increasingly deployed, often in imaginative ways, to meet such challenges. Such demands are likely to grow as the current economic crisis...
READ MORECatalina Ciolan, While much of Europe slumbered through its summer vacation, the programme to build a pan-European e-Health network shifted up one notch, after the European Commission published a Recommendation on cross-border interoperability of electronic health record (EHR) systems. Hospitals in England should allow the “widest...
READ MOREKristof Eeckloo is with the Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Faculty of medicine, at Belgium’s Catholic University of Leuven. Belgium is a federal state. There are three levels of government: federal, regional (three regions and three communities) and local provinces and municipalities)....
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