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Better Aging,Better Care-Exploring Solutions for an Aging Europe
More than 100 participants from regions across Europe gathered at the joint workshop ” Better Aging, Better Care ” organised by Intel and AGE in Brussels in October 2007. The event was held during the European Week of Regions and Cities. The debate focused on one of the most pressing issues of our time: how will we care for our aging population?...
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E-Health Standards and Interoperability
Under the auspices of Member of the European Parliament Milan Cabrnoch, MD, a Seminar on e-Health Standards and Interoperability was held on October 15 at the European Parliament, Brussels. In his opening speech, Dr Cabrnoch stated that only efficient and interoperable e-Health tools and services could fulfill needs and demands of European citizens....
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The 21st Century Digital Hospital
Author Massimiliano Claps is Research Director, EMEA, for the Government and Health Insights practice at IDC. The Western Europe healthcare sector is dealing with different "inconvenient truths". The problem of skyrocketing costs is possibly one of the best known. However, other challenges too, loom...
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The Broad Band Challenge for Isolated Communities
Effective e-Health in isolated communities is clearly dependent on access to broadband infrastructure. Currently, terrestrial technologies like ADSL or cable modem are available for a significant number of Europeans, at competitive prices. But there are challenges. According to a European Space Agency study in December 2005, broadband...
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Healthcare and Big IT
Healthcare has, in recent years, been at the front of a feverish pace of technological change. However, the bulk of such developments have been in the areas of patient therapy and care. Innovations in the area of IT systems have been less apparent. And yet, it is IT which – at the moment, lurking just below the horizon – offers the greatest...
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Healthcare in Switzerland
The healthcare system in Switzerland is a complex combination of public care, subsidised private and wholly privatised healthcare. The share of public spending, however, is one of Europe’s lowest – reflecting the fact that Swiss law earmarks the State’s role as a healthcare guarantor only when the private sector “fails to produce satisfactory results”....
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Healthcare and IT policy in Switzerland
Known for its intensely confederal system of politics and decision-making, Switzerland has nevertheless recently began to coordinate its e-Health initiatives on a national level. Alongside, it is also opening up to new European and international e-Health standards. To obtain an overview of policymaker’s perspectives on healthcare and IT in Switzerland, HITM’s...
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IT and Swiss Healthcare
E-Health is rapidly emerging at centre-stage in Switzerland’s healthcare IT agenda. Last June, the Federal Council approved a National e-Health Strategy for the years 2007 to 2015. The strategy is based on a proposal from the Federal Office of Public Health, and follows extensive consultations with a range of concerned parties. One...
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Tribulations of Working With a Clinical Information System
It is Interoperable … Author Gurpreet Dhillon is Professor of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University, US. One Friday evening, my son insisted on riding his bicycle. I tried convincing him that that road was slippery, that he had to have his supper and that I was tired, but to no avail....
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CIS: A Longstanding Debate
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya HITM The debate about the role and reliability of clinical information systems (CIS) goes back several years. As far back as 1994, a British Medical Journal editorial entitled ‘Are clinical information systems safe ?’ portrayed a series of high-profile failures (which entailed...
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