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    Volume 3 / Issue 3 / 2008

    • IT
    • 03/03/2008

    COVER:  EHRs in the US; IT in Clinical Trials FEATURES:  E-Health with Citizens and Choices; Home Healthcare for the Aged and IT; The Evolving...

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  • Carestream

    Carestream’s progress with NHS Scotland PACS Carestream Health Inc. marked its one-year anniversary as an independent company with an announcement of “significant progress” with the NHS Scotland National PACS Project implementation. The project now has 21 sites connected out of the country’s 39 hospitals, with 10,000 general clinical...

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  • Greece

    Greek staff trained on telemedicine approaches Doctors and nursing staff from several municipalities in Greece - plus four specialists from the Athens Medical Centre - have been trained in the use of telemetric systems as part of an extension of the country’s telemedicine program. The municipalities are members of the Inter Municipality...

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  • ConhIT 2008, Berlin,Germany

    ConhIT – connecting healthcare IT has been widely hailed as a successful debut event. 144 companies, including the industry’s market leaders, exhibited their products over an area covering 8,500 m2 in the display halls of the Berlin Exhibition Grounds.   The organisers had realised a new concept for Germany, with a professional programme...

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  • HIT Paris 2008, Paris, France

    This year’s 4th session of theWorld Health Care Congress Europe opened its doors with an executive seminar on Innovative Care ManagHIT Paris 2008, Paris, France Following its successful launch in 2007, the second edition of Health Information Technologies Event ‘Hit 2008’, comprised a Congress and an Exhibition which targeted a variety of health professionals...

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  • The Evolving Role of the CMIO

    Author Prof. Antoine Geissbuhler is CMIO, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland. Healthcare informatics lies at the hub of two forceful, fast evolving trends. The first is the IT industry’s own drive to provide systems developed for the very specific needs of healthcare providers – ranging from pharmacies and specialised...

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  • PACS and IT

    Does IT Really Decrease Costs of Healthcare IT? Ing. E.Talini and Prof.  D. Caramella are with the diadnostic and  Interventional  Radiology Department of the University of Pisa, Italy. During the last three years, the Radiology Department at the University Hospital in Pisa, Italy,...

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  • IT and the Irish Healthcare System

    Information technology has a major role in terms of meeting the objectives of Ireland’s 10- year Health Strategy 2001 Plan. The Plan consists of three pillars: Setting the Scene, Improving the System, and Implementing Change. Explicit IT-related elements are concentrated in the second, on determining ways and means to improve the healthcare system....

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  • Ireland UPS the Ante on IT for the Elderly

    Author Catalina Ciolan, Ireland’s commitment to the elderly is reflected by its Minister for Older People, Ms Máire Hoctor, an ambitious young representative for the Fianna Fáil party from the constituency of Tipperary North. Ireland has more than 1 million people aged over 60, and like the rest of Europe, their share is increasing....

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  • Picture Archiving and Communication Systems(PACS)

    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, dedicates itself to bringing the discipline...

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