• Belgium

    HIT@HEALTCARE - A Unique Joint Event (8-10 October, 2008)   For the first time in the healthcare history of Belgium and The Netherlands, four e-Health professional associations have decided to join forces in order to organise an international conference and exhibition in Brussels. This event will coincide with the celebration of the 25th...

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  • Portugal

    Portuguese Health Centers to Implement Integrated Patient Record   Five healthcare facilities in Portugal have implemented a hospital information system to integrate patient records. For this project, Espirito Santo Saúde (ESSAUDE), the private healthcare group that delivered the systems, partnered with vendor iSoft. Even within one month...

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  • Solvenia

    Gemalto Service to bring Slovenia’s e-Health Cards   According to Gemalto, a European digital security company, the new card to be implemented in Slovenia will be the first in Europe to feature a Java public key infrastructure (PKI), which will enhance the online health system by offering digital signatures for healthcare...

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  • EU Face to Face With the Rfid Revolution

    In the field of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips, the European Union is losing the technological battle for mass deployment, seen as the driver of the creation of an “Internet of things,” the Commission declared. RFID chips have already been deployed at a significant scale all over the world while their implementation can be found in sectors...

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  • Hospital Information Systems

    Though their mission remains much the same as before – to deliver healthcare, hospitals have changed considerably over recent years – both in terms of appearance and content. In the face of the emergence of the new e-Health environment, one of the clearest aspects of such changes is the evolution of the Hospital Information System. with accommodation...

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  • Beside Information 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, dedicates itself to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research in...

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  • The EU RTD Programe FP-7:Health IT Projects

    IT projects with healthcare implications awarded under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP-7) are ambitious in scale. Many underscore the EU’s emerging response to its e-Health agenda as well as the possibility of using IT to cope imaginatively with the challenges of an ageing population. Nevertheless, many observers in the healthcare...

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  • Hospital Governance and IT

    Can IT-mediated corporate governance systems derived from (and generated by) private sector companies be applied to hospitals, in particular the non-profit hospitals which underpin the European healthcare landscape ? Across most of Europe, hospital boards oversee policies/strategies, financial plans and other operational activities, and many review...

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  • Telecoms and Healthcare IT

    Drivers exist for implementing IT services within the healthcare industry on a large scale. Their interactions, however, are highly dynamic and remain largely ad-hoc. Nevertheless, the sheer scale of hospital modernisation projects and the ever-changing opportunities offered by new networking and communications technologies combine to make telecoms...

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  • France Healthcare System

    France’s health system has in recent years been a paradox, both for expert observers within the country and those overseas. In June 2000, the World Health Organisation ranked the country’s healthcare system as the “best in the world”. This was in spite of the fact that in terms of standard benchmarks for high-tech healthcare, France lagged most...

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