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    Volume 3 / Issue 2 / 2008

    • IT
    • 03/02/2008

    COVER:  Hospital Information Systems FEATURES:  Laboratory Information Management Systems; IT in the Intensive Care Unit; Mobile IT Solutions...

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  • Letter from the Executive Director,HITM

    Dear Reader, IT is a value-add engine to every economic sector. This is now accepted wisdom. Healthcare is no exception. Yet, healthcare IT has some special characteristics. It is more data rich and sensitive than most other economic segments. However, trends in healthcare IT spending have lagged those, for example, in banks – a sector to which...

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  • Turkey

    Turkish Doctors Pilot New Decision Support System European and Turkish doctors and technicians have developed a medical support system (Saphire) which can track patients’ real-time vital signs, link them to patient medical history, and provide the latest clinical guidelines for patient care. The Intelligent Clinical Decision Support...

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  • Med-E-Tel 2008

    The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (HITM) invites you in the month of April to Med-e-Tel, the International Educational and Networking Forum for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT. Med-e-Tel offers opportunities to meet and network with telemedicine and e-Health users, researchers, care providers, policy makers and industry representatives...

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  • The World Health Care Congress Europe 2008, Berlin, Germany

    This year’s 4th session of the World Health Care Congress Europe opened its doors with an executive seminar on Innovative Care Management Services sponsored by Accenture. Dr. Thomas Zahn discussed the concept of ACMS as well as the results of their pilot in Germany and the implementation phase with Health Dialog/CNAMTS in France. During the three...

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  • Laboratory Information Management System

    The Core Laboratory for Clinical Studies (CLCS) at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, USA, conducts testing on Phase 3 and 4 clinical trial samples. In addition to pharmaceutical sponsors, the CLCS also performs testing for Washington University School of Medicine researchers, and for clinicians who service patients. In early...

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  • IT and the Intensive Care Units

    COMPUTER-SUPPORTED DECISION MAKING: AN EVALUATION   A hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) has several characteristics which make it favourable for extensive use of information technology. Firstly, it has an overwhelming amount of data, often leading to data-overload and loss of information. Secondly, intensive care medicine has a short diagnostic-therapeutic...

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  • Mobile IT Solutions in Healthcare

    Gathering Speed, Slowly But Surely The promise of mobile solutions for healthcare has some parallels to the US Bill of Rights; its truths are self-evident. They are also the result of three convergent trends. The first is the explosion of hospital data. The second is the increasing requirement for specialist advice and care. Last but not least...

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  • Healthcare IT in France

    Healthcare IT in France is a mix of gems and some persistent dark spots. The former arises from its world-class ‘dirigiste’ policies for high-technology in general. The latter are mainly due to the complexities of its welfare system (in the shape of enduring healthcare budget deficits) and its generally slower adoption of the Internet – ironically,...

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  • The Minitel: France"s High-Tech Early Bird

    From the Eiffel Tower through the tail-free delta wing Mirage III fighter jet to the TGV supertrain, France has an enviable reputation for taking an iconoclastic, but surprisingly successful approach at the cutting-edge of high technology. Today, when the Internet becomes as commonplace as a dishwasher in Western households, it may be salutary to...

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