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ITEG 2007
As part of Berlin’s eHealth Week, ITeG 2007 (International Forum for Healthcare IT) was so far one of this year’s most prominent healthcare industry events (alongside Telemed, eHealth Conference 2007, KIS Conference and IHE Connectathon). In comparison with last year’s figures, ITeG 2007 saw exhibitor numbers rise from 273 to 288; however, visitors...
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i2010- Underpinning Europe’s 21st Century Aspirations
What is I2010 ? The European Union’s i2010 initiative aims at providing teeth for the digital economy of the future. Launched on June 1, 2005, i2010 is comprised of a framework of regulatory instruments, research programs and industry partnerships. Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner responsible for the Information Society and Media, explains both...
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Cross-Boarder Healthcare
EU Drives For Common, Improved and Meaningful Standards Charter on Patient Rights On March 15, 2007, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on cross-border healthcare, insisting on the EU’s obligation to guarantee absolute protection of health and reinforce patients’ rights. Alongside, Parliament also noted the need to establish...
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Challenges of Healthcare and Health ICT
Author Kjell Borthne Chief Medical Officer of CARDIAC as. Modern hospitals offer a wide variety of services within a broad field of clinical care, specialties and research, as well as medical support services. Diagnosis, treatment and care therefore, tend to consist of complex processes involving multiple individuals,...
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Indian IT and Europe
Offshore IT is principally about India. Indian IT firms pioneered the offshore IT delivery model – not the Americans, as is often assumed. Secondly, for over 15 years, Indian IT has involved much more than low-end coding (or, for that matter, contact call centres, which account for barely 5% of Indian IT revenues). Indeed, by the mid-1990s,...
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The UK NHS IT Modernisation Programme
Author DMre. lJicahna rK NHS Consultant. The UK public healthcare IT programme [National Programme for IT (NPfIT)] is a classic example of a top-down grand plan for a public IT system that will not deliver but will cost up to £20 billion. This is due to the familiar inability of these 'grand projects' to actually involve those...
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ISO/IEC 27799
What’s In This Standard for Healthcare IT Managers ? Even as European healthcare IT professionals brace themselves to understand the shifting contours of the emerging e-Health wave and cope with its implications, regulatory developments in yet another sphere are appearing on the horizon. The ISO (International Standards Organisation)/...
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Outsourcing Management of ICT Infrastructure in Finland
Author Simo Pietilä IT Manager, Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa. The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS) is a federation of municipalities established in the year 2000 in Finland’s southern coast. Its 1.5 million inhabitants are serviced by 21 hospitals, which employ close to 20,000 health...
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IT and Nordic Healthcare
Drivers of healthcare IT in the Nordic countries follow the general pattern in the OECD – in terms of the need for patient-centricity, service-orientation and cost-effectiveness. All Nordic countries rank high in terms of e-Health readiness indicators, as well as healthcare and IT/Internet infrastructure. Indeed, the World Economic Forum’s...
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Healthcare in the Nordic Countries
Health systems in the Nordic countries have a long heritage. They are principally financed by public funds or compulsory health insurance schemes. All countries, however, require co-payments by patients for hospital care and medicines. The Nordic healthcare system is especially well-established with regard to primary and preventive healthcare....
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