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    Volume 3 / Issue 5 / 2008

    • IT
    • 03/05/2008

    COVER:  Healthcare IT in Europe: Search for Efficiency and Cost Control FEATURES:  The Electronic Health Record in Serbia; The Computerization...

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  • Agfa Healthcare

    Assistance Publique - Hopitaux De Paris (AP-HP) to Choose Agfa Healthcare Agfa HealthCare has announced the winning of a contract to install its ORBIS (TM) solution at 37 hospitals in France, belonging to the Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) group. The project is regarded as one of the most ambitious deployments of a healthcare...

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  • GE Healthcare

    Ge Healthcare to Acquire Agility Healthcare Solutions Agility’s AgileTrac technology provides the most comprehensive enterprise resource management, asset tracking, and clinical workflow solution in the healthcare industry. Agility offers a technology platform that provides enterprise visibility and management of patient flow, assets, beds and...

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  • Switzerland

    Telemedmeeting 2008 The Fondation franco-suisse pour la Recherche et la Technologie is organizing the 2nd edition of the TelemedMeeting 2008, to take place on the 14th of Novembre in Genève-Archamps.   Organized under the form of workshops, Telemed- Meeting 2008 aims to gather players from different e-Health systems to exchange ideas...

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  • UK

    Scottish Health System to Receive 1m £ to Secure USB ports. NHS boards across Scotland are to share GBP 1 million to help them improve their IT security, beginning with securing USB ports.The funding, from the Scottish Government’s e-Health budget, will be used to help boards comply with new government standards. The new rules on encrypting...

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  • Healthcare and the Financial Crisis

    As noted previously (page 19), healthcare is one of the only major sectors forecast to buck the major decline forecast in IT spending for 2009.   To get a bird’s eyeview of the impact of the current financial crisis, we selected the Top Four companies by US market capitalization in five key healthcare sub-sectors and assessed the 52 week...

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  • The Electronic Health Record in Siberia

    Author Michael Weinhara, Hospital Economist and Team Leader. Serbia’s new EHR system went live a few months ago, marking a major milestone in its efforts to leapfrog interim solutions and access the benefits of e-Health in the shortest possible period of time. Overall, the Serbian EHR is both a national e-Health backbone...

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  • IT and Medical Technology:Growing Convergence

    The Klinik am Eichert in Göppingen (Germany) Breaks New Ground Author Joachim Hiller and Timo Baumann are respectively Heads of the Biomedical Department and of the Department Service Centre IT and Org anisation at the Klinik am Eichert in Göppingen, Germany. Information technology and biomedical...

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  • Healthcare in Eastern Europe

    A Multi-Speed, Multi-Dimensional Matrix of Change Though generally behind their counterparts in central Europe (the Country Focus in our previous issue), significant developments are also underway in the healthcare systems in eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine). As in central Europe, a major driver is the impact...

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  • Microsoft

    Microsoft to Choose Philips Speech Tool for his, RIS/PACS Microsoft has tapped Royal Philips Electronics’ SpeechMagic solution as the preferred technology for the Amalga hospital information system and RIS/PACS. The global licensing agreement between the two companies will bring industrial grade speech recogniton to the Amalga enterprise healthcare tools....

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