Volume 2 / Issue 1 2007
- IT
- 20/04/2007
Author Blake Suthherland is vice president of product management at Third Brigade. The New Threat Until recently, attention-seeking hackers were the main IT security threat to businesses, including healthcare organisations. These types of mass attacks often had no particular target in mind; they would simply...
READ MOREMembership As the only pan-European association dedicated to healthcare IT management, HITM offers its members unique opportunities to: + Participate in advocacy em groups that impact EU healthcare IT legislation; + Share your knowledge with and learn from the experiences of your peers; + Learn industry best practices and standards;...
READ MOREThe Ministry of Health and Social Services for the Spanish region of Cantabria has awarded iSOFT a major contract for software solutions designed to manage requests for diagnostic hospital tests at all centres within the region’s health service. The project, to be conducted in collaboration with local companies Indesis Consultoría Sanitaria and...
READ MOREC2C presented MIO™in collaboration with Cisco Systems, Inc., at Cisco’s booth at the recent World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition (10-13 October, Geneva). MIO™ is a software integration tool that acts as a DICOM Gateway allowing the storage of several types of images in one single repository. MIO™ is flexible, easy to implement, cost effective,...
READ MOREECRI (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute) is a non-profit health services research agency and a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Such organisations are appointed to contribute to the WHO’s public health mission by providing specialise knowledge, expertise and support in the health field to the WHO and its member...
READ MOREAuthor Ellen K. Christiansen Legal adviser Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine,university Hospital ofNorthNorway [email protected] www.telemed.no/index.php?cat=4259 The Empowered Patient The emergence of the “empowered patient” raises the issue of whether this should influence legislation concerning...
READ MOREAuthors SteveBrown Alejandro Rodriguez-Ascaso Torbjørn Sund Bruno vonNiman Specialist Task Force STF299 European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Sophia Antipolis, France [email protected] www.etsi.org A Mass Market for Telecare? Telecare has the potential to resolve many...
READ MOREHealthcare System & Administration Spain has a public healthcare system, mainly financed by taxes. As a result, healthcare in Spain is either free or low cost for residents (and their dependents) paying social security. The national healthcare system covers 99.7% of the Spanish population. The remaining 0.3% only has access to private medical...
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