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Letter from the Executive Director, HITM
Dear Reader, There has always been a reflexive association between the words ‘medicine’ and ‘emergency’. Modern technology, especially at the cutting-edge of IT and communications, have brought wholly new meanings to the ability of the medical profession to manage and respond to emergencies. Our cover story looks at CANIS, a project...
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Republic of Moldova
National Survey for Health Information Systems Available Following publication in 2007 of ”The Evaluation of the Health Information Systems in the Republic of Moldova” , the Ministry of Health of the Republic has decided to push further the modernisation of the health information systems. The above-mentioned study, from...
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Health and Migration in the EU – Better Health for all in an Inclusive Society
One of the main initiatives of the Portuguese EU Council Presidency in the field of Health was to organise a European Conference at Lisbon in late September on “Health and Migration in the EU - Better Health for All in an Inclusive Society”. Member States, national and international institutions as well as NGOs were invited to present strategies and...
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“Reaping the Benefits of EGovernment”
To mark the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union, the European Commission and the Government of Portugal jointly organised the fourth Ministerial eGovernment Conference on “Reaping the Benefits of eGovernment”. The conference, held on 20-21 September, focused on four main ICT and Public Services related areas, namely: î...
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Portuguese Council Presidency
On July 1, Portugal took over the EU’s rotating presidency from Germany. Portugal is now responsible for the EU presidency for the third time, after 1992 and 2000. In turn, it will hand over the presidency to Slovenia on January 1, 2008. The Portuguese presidency has set up several priorities for its six-month mandate. The most important...
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Transiting Hospitals from Past to Future
Author Rainer Harpf a H nd erwig Wetzlinger . Like other countries in Europe, the Austrian hospital and healthcare system faces a period of rapid change, accompanied by a host of new and sometimes-unfamiliar challenges. Managers are being compelled to rethink strategy and policies as a result of changes in the healthcare...
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Lizards, Dust and Vaccinations
Author John Rigstad Director of Information Services, Medair. ICT is vital to the success of disaster relief operations. However, its implementation is fraught with some unusual challenges, especially for Medair, one of the world’s handful of ISO 9001-certified humanitarian aid organisations. Alongside the...
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The RFID Oppurtunity for Healthcare
Author TCoatsahli nSah eCsihoalabnalaya, RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) devices have been visibly gaining acceptance across a variety of industries, principally for supply chain management in fast-moving areas such as retailing. As a relatively later entrant, the healthcare sector has benefited from more maturity...
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IT and Austrian Healthcare
Healthcare IT has an unusually high official profile in Austria. The Federation Board, which manages the Austrian social insurance system has four Advisory Committees. Three of these are typical in much of the EU – on work and accident insurance, on old age, and health insurance. But alongside, one committee is dedicated wholly to IT. ...
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Healthcare IT Policy in Austria
Interview Stefan Sauermann To obtain an overview of policymaker’s perspectives on healthcare and IT in Austria, HITM’s Catalina Ciolan interviewed Stefan Sauermann from the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Stefan Sauermann lectures at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna...
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