• Sectra

    Sectra to Provide Northern Ireland with Wide Radiology IT System Northern Ireland will implement an integrated solution for managing radiology information and images (RIS/PACS) provided by the Swedish IT and medical technology company Sectra through a ten-year agreement.   The solution will be used throughout the entire public healthcare system...

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  • Siemens

    Advia Central Link Networking Solution Recently launched by Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Version 12 of the ADVIA Central Link Networking Solution provides a consolidated environment for the management of information, laboratory results, and workflow – both for automated and nonautomated customers. It facilitates communication between the laboratory...

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  • Bulgaria

    Health eCard initiative Launch in Bulgaria The first electronic prescription in Bulgaria was issued and presented at an event presided over by the Bulgarian Minister of Health, Prof. Radoslav Gajdarski, and the Minister of Public Administration and Administrative Reform, Dr. Nikolay Vassilev. The online transaction officially launched the pilot...

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  • A@HTI

    The 1st Advances in eHealth and Telemedicine International Conference took place in Warsaw, Poland, during the autumn days of 2008. The conference was designed by and for an audience of international healthcare and ICT professionals that included: clinicians and health professionals, health information technology users and buyers, directors, managers...

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  • 2008 New Summit-Towards Future Media Internet

    Organized by the NEM (Networked and Electronic Media) European Technology Platform under the aegis of the European Commission’s DG Information Socie ty and Media with the support of the French Ministry of Industry, the Région Bretagne, the Media & Networks cluster and the St Malo Agglomeration, the first edition of the NEM Summit “Towards Future Media...

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  • The Computerization of Healthcare in Romania

    An Experiment in Progress Author Marius Stupu is IT Manager of SUUB, the University Hospital of Bucharest. An overview of changes in the hospital/healthcare IT system in Romania – long known for a traditionally high caliber of IT competencies - is provided below by the IT manager of one of the country’s leading...

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  • Doing the Right Thing for the Wrong Reasons

    Author Robert H. Roswell is Professor of Medicine at the Oklahoma University Col lege of Medicine and a former Under  Secretary for Health, U.S. De partment of Veterans Affairs.   The need to reduce errors, increase economies of scale in a fragmented system, and derive efficiencies in the delivery of medical...

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  • Cradiology and IT in the Context of IHE

    The Health Enterprise (IHE) Author Tim Becker and Rüdiger Simon are with the Department of Cardiology at the Uni - versity Hospital of Schles - wig-Holstein in Germany. Computer applications are indispensable tools in cardiology today for digital image acquisition, deployment and reviewing, and also...

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  • Healthcare IT System in Eastern Europe

    Serbia Serbia’s e-Health vision is part of the government’s September 2005 position paper: National Strategy for an Information Society in Serbia. This defines the main issue as “the implementation of an infrastructure to provide for medical care, disease prevention, and health education on-line.”   In general, the Strategy Paper...

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  • Product Comparison for Nurse Call System

    ECRI 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...

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