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Ge Healthcare
Ge Healthcare to Boost $500m in Home Monitoring Market GE Healthcare has entered into a technology and distribution agreement with New York-based Living Independently Group, Inc., which provides telecare and monitoring systems for seniors. GE Healthcare will distribute and co-market Living Independently’s QuietCare products globally. As part...
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The World of Health IT
Based on the repeated success in the past two years, the 2008 World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition continues 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...
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Call for 'Universal' Broadband
Access to Broadband Internet is a Cornerstone to Make e-Health Meaning Full for Europe’s Citizens. On several occasions, EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding has expressed “two main concerns”. The first is that “broadband is not yet available to all. Deployment costs are high, particularly in distant and scarcely populated...
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A Look Back at the EU RTD Programme FP-6(Part 2)
Our previous issue (HITM Vol. 3, Issue 3) provided a summary of 26 healthcare IT projects under the Sixth Framework Programme for Research (FP-6) which ran from 2001-06. We classified them into three categories used by the current Seventh Programme (FP-7): ICT and ageing, IT architecture and infrastructure, and bioinformatics and robotics. The second-part...
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Healthcare IT: The Business of the Profession
Author Tony Eardley and Adam Drury are consultants with Tribal Group. Successful IT supports a business environment by adding value to the organisation in achieving its strategic goals. In healthcare terms, this could mean better health outcomes for patients and safer, more effective services. It could also mean...
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Philips
Alliance between Philips,Maastricht UMC+ and University Clinic Aachen The Maastricht University Medical Centre (UMC+), Unir Aachen (UKA) and Royal Philips Electronics N.V. announced that they are to set up a strategic partnership, the aim of which is to pool their knowledge, expertise and experience in the field of healthcare. The...
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Siemens
Airedale hospital to pilot Siemens RFID Airedale NHS Trust will be piloting the new Radio Frequency Identification technology from Siemens Healthcare to track 100 intravenous pumps across the trust, over 30 days. Both Siemens and Airedalewill for the first time use RFID technology to track assets across various buildings...
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HIT@Healthcare-A Unique Joint Care
The European Association of Healthcare IT managers (HITM) invites you in the month of October to HIT@HealthCare, Health Information Technology Conference & Exhibition. According to the organisers, for the first time in the healthcare history of Belgium and the Netherlands, four e-Health professional associations have decided to join forces...
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Home Healthcare for the Aged and IT
Homecare and Information Technology Author Vivian Vimarlund is Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden. Predictions that information technology would become a critical element in the elderly health and homecare setting of the future have proven to...
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The Healthcare System in Ireland
In spite of some persistent concerns, Ireland’s healthcare system has been bracing itself for meeting challenges in the years ahead. The country has a mixed public and private healthcare system. These have been subject to considerable reforms in the past two decades. Yet, there is considerable anecdotal and statistical evidence that healthcare delivery...
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