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Letter from the Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief, HITM
Dear Reader, An HITM delegation recently returned from the EU’s eHealth 2008 Conference in Slovenia. As ever, the Slovenians surpassed themselves in their role as hosts. Back in Brussels, however, we cannot help some familiar morning-after blues. This is not because we yearn for the stunning seaside \ resort of Portoroz, where the Conference...
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Norway
EPR Norwegian study A study by researchers at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has found that GP electronic patient records in Norway has led to better availability of records, but unsatisfactory access to information. The study by academics Tom Christensen and Anders Grimsmo says that the deployment of EPRs...
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The Netherlands
Hospitallbroeders to Deploy New CRM Saturn Corporation, a data base management specialist, has implemented its Eprísa customer relationship management (CRM) software, at the Dutch healthcare foundation, Hospitallbroeders. Eprisa enables users data on one screen and restricts data so the user only sees what they are entitled to. John...
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Portugal
ICT to Aid Unemployed Portuguese Over 1,700 unemployed textile workers were offered intensive courses to get ICT skills. The original target was to readmit 10% of the trained people to the job market by 2009. Approaching the end of the three-year project, the organisers can hail a readmission rate of 40%. The success of the project, called TII...
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The 2008 Portoroz Declaration
According to participants at the annual EU eHealth 2008 event, which took place at Portoroz, Slovenia from May 6-7, telemedicine and innovative ICT tools for chronic disease management will be the key to delivering people-centered health care. The annual EU eHealth 2008 conference,where stakeholders demonstrated results in the use of information and...
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Benchmarking ICT Use Among GPS in Europe
E-Health applications have a growing role in the doctor’s practices, according to the ‘Benchmarking ICT use among General Practitioners in Europe’ study carried out by consultants empirica in association with IPSOS on behalf of the European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate- General. The pan-European survey was recently...
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EHRs in the US
The State of Development of Interoperable Health Records in the United States Author Jim Oakes is a healthcare IT expert, and as a CIO, has been involved in turnarounds at three US hospitals. Joan R. Duke founded Health Care Information Consultants (HCIC) in 1990;...
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Evolution in Healthcare IT Delivery
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, Just after the turn of this decade, it quickly became apparent that investments by the healthcare sector in the emerging e-business infrastructure were simply not keeping pace with other industries. For many analysts of paradigm shifts in technology, however, this was a blessing in disguise. The dotcom...
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A Look Back at the EU RTD Programme FP-6
In our previous issue, we provided an overview of healthcare IT projects awarded under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research. As noted, many underscore the EU’s response to its e-Health agenda and pathways to use IT to cope with the challenges of an ageing population. Given below is a summary of healthcare IT projects under the Sixth Framework Programme....
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Hospital Mergers and IT in the Czech Republic
Author Martin Zeman is CIO, Regional Health Corporation, Czech Republic. The accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union has entailed dramatic changes in its hospital structures and healthcare delivery policies. IT has been both a driver and a passenger in such a process....
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