• The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (HITM)

    The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (HITM) is a non-profit pan-European umbrella association of all relevant national healthcare IT associations in Europe. Believing in the fundamental importance of unifying healthcare IT professionals at European and global levels,...

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  • Czech Republic

    First International Summer School for Biomedical Informatics The Center for Biomedical Informatics, Institute of Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague and the Czech National Group of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics are organising the 2008 International Summer School of Biomedical...

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  • IT in Clinical Trials

    An Academic Sponsor's Perspcetive Author Lucy H.H. Parker and Gary C. Roper are with Imperial College, London. The use of IT systems for clinical trial management in a non-commercial setting is a complex and contentious issue. The current drive for commercial sponsors to utilise electronic platforms for trial management...

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  • E-Health with Citizens and with Choices

    Author Isabel Borges is Policy Officer, AGE, Brussels, Belgium . The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has great potential for helping older people and people with disabilities to continue to live at home, at work, and in the community. Technology can enable older people carry out daily activities...

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  • Whither the AS/400?

    Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, It is a question on the minds of several healthcare IT managers, and their counterparts in other fields of business. What is the future of IBM's AS/400, a workhorse in hospitals and other enterprises across Europe? In spite of a blizzard of technology and marketing firsts, IBM itself seems to be seriously...

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  • GPs and IT

    Author Chris O’Riordan  is Head of the Centre for Management Research in Healthcare and Healthcare economics, Waterford Institute of Technology, and Mark Rowe  is Managing Director, Rowe Creavin Practice, Waterford.   If those of us of a certain age (in other words, no longer in...

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  • Austria

    Austrian Hospital to Implement Personnel Administration System   A personnel administration system has been implemented at Allgemeines Krankenhaus Wien (AKH), Austria. AKH in Vienna is one of the country’s biggest hospitals with 2,100 beds and 9,000 staff, including around 1,500 doctors. The software package, called ‘on duty’, will be provided...

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  • Pressure for Progress

    On Lead Markets for E-Health In early 2008, the European Commission requested the strengthening of national co-operation on lead market opportunities for e-Health with the aim of improving the quality of health services and an increase in economic benefits. When talking about e-Health in this context, one should go back to the Aho Report on...

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