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Six Sigma
Healthcare And Six Sigma Author William LaFollette currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). Six Sigma can reduce defects in services to unprecedented levels because of its strong emphasis on statistical analysis and measurement in design, manufacturing, and the...
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Austria
Austrian Hospital to Implement Radiation IT The newly-constructed Vöcklabruck Hospital in Upper Austria will implement a digital radio-oncology suite provided by a Swedish healthcare IT firm, Elekta. The implementation cost is estimated at Û 5 million and is part of a 10-year contract between the hospital and vendor. At Vöcklabruck,...
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Bulgaria
Electronic Health Cards Implemented in Bulgaria Bulgaria’s first national electronic health cards were issued in September 2007, under a pilot program of the Ministry of Health and the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). InterComponentWare AG, Cisco Systems Inc. and Kontrax Consulting, a U.S.-based contract management firm, have helped develop...
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Croatia
Resolution Plan for e-Croatia Available 1.237 billions of kunas were allocated by the Croatian Government to the Operational Plan for implementation of the e-Croatia program. This program carries out all current IT projects in administration as well as the review of 130 related activities such as e-Index, free access to high-speed Internet in student...
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The US Healthcare System
In June 2003, a landmark study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that American adults received appropriate medical treatment only 55% of the time (or just about once on every two occasions). In the years since, a private organisation called The Commonwealth Fund has routinely conducted an X-Ray of expert perspectives about...
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The Legacy Systems Challenge
Over the past decades, European e-Health projects have principally focused on research and development. Some have also been demonstrated on a large scale through programmes like eTEN. However, many are now close to real-life deployment and use, and the European Union’s e-Health Action Plan has become a central plank of its broader i2010 strategy....
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Patient ID and Security Systems
ECRI Institute 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 nonprofit organisation, dedicates itself to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research...
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Growing Complexity of Healthcare IT Will Drive Outsourcing
Technology in general, and IT specifically, have become one of the most pervasive aspects of healthcare delivery, touching nearly all its aspects. Today, a whole new universe of possibilities is being opened up in the shape of e-Health programmes. Most hospitals, however, lack the resources or skills to go it alone in building new IT infrastructures...
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The Data Challenge for E-Health
Author Patrice Blemont Questions about healthcare data access and sharing on the one side, and security and privacy on the other, are integral to debates about European e-Health. In technical terms, there is also a need for data management, issues of data entry, access and storage, and this at a multitude of levels –...
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Healthcare in Austria
The roots of the Welfare State in Austria date back to the Middle Ages, in the shape of the Ausgedinge, a flat-rate income paid to free farmers in rural areas after they retired and transferred their holdings. Miners too had their own health insurance and pension scheme. Indeed, some believe that Austria’s mining law cooperatives are the world’s oldest...
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