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Letter from the Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief, HITM
Dear Reader, Across the IT world, the debate about the pros and cons of the so-called twin pillars of enterprise software, JEE and .Net, has raged since the beginning of their existence. Such a question has not left the healthcare space untouched. Experts from Finland, however, make a compelling case in this issue’s cover story about the growing...
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PICS
PICIS to Introduced Eview Enhanced Caresuite Product Picis has introduced its eView for Critical Care Manager, part of the newly launched version 8.2 of the company's CareSuite product range. The eView release is designed to consolidate clinically relevant data gathered during the patient’s ICU experience into a Web-based view, accessible to clinicians...
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Lithuania
The project “eHealth services” introduced to the Lithuanian medical community The leaders of the project “eHealth services” organised five topical meetings with physicians and employees of healthcare institutions in the three largest cities of Lithuania. Key strategies and plans for creating the united national eHealth system as well as...
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The Netherlands
Progress with the Dutch Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Data shows that so far sixty five doctors have been connected to the EPR infrastructure while by the end of the year, this number is expected to increase to 200. The EPR in the Netherlands is a virtual EPR in the sense that the medical data will remain physically where...
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Hospital IT Architectures: JEE, Net and Beyond
Author Hannu Virkanen and Juha Mykkänen, are with the University of Kuopio, Finland. JEE and .NET are the two major frameworks competing in the enterprise software development space. A debate on their similarities and differences has been running since the beginning of their coexistence. Are these comparisons...
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Radiotherapy Treatment Planning 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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MIS Dashboards:Buy or Built
Author Christopher Bain is Healthcare Management Informatician, WCMICS, Melbourne, Australia (www.health-mic.org) The growing trend in Europe (and much of the world) to corporatise hospitals and set performance targets has been accompanied by an escalation in management information requirements. One answer to...
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The Challenge of Capacity Planning: A Core Role for IT
Author Knut Bergsland and Asmund Myrbostad are senior advisers at SINTEF Health Research in Norway (www.health-mic.org). Most European hospitals will have to expand their examination and treatment capacity in the future, as well as restructure core functions. Whether to remain competitive or for other reasons, it...
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Recommendation on Cross-Border EHR Interoperability
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, While much of Europe slumbered through its summer vacation, the program 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. At first sight, the Commission...
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Healthcare in Central Europe:Transiting to Catch-Up
In spite of such positive developments, considerable work still remains to be done. The systems predating EU accession were characterized by significant inefficiencies, with gaps in areas like primary care accompanied by over-supply in others (not least, in terms of specialist physicians, hospital beds and staff). Meanwhile, the growth...
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