• Outsourcing of IT

    Authors Professor Nir Menachemi, PhD is an expert in medical informatics and has extensively published his academic work examining the organizational and clinical benefits of IT adoption in healthcare. He holds a faculty position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (U.S.).   Peter Ginter, PhD is a U.S....

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  • The RFID Opportunity for Healthcare

    Author Catalina Ciolan and Tosh Sheshabalaya, European Association of Healthcare IT Managers, Brussels, Belgium Email : [email protected]   RFID (radio frequency identification) devices have been visibly gaining acceptance across a variety of industries, principally for supply chain management in fast-moving...

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  • Telehealth 2007

    DG Infso (Information Society) organised a conference on telemedicine, as a chronic disease management tool, on December 11 in Brussels. This was one of the steps developed by the Commission to identify barriers to broad telemedicine development. Other concrete actions for the European Union institutions, member states, regions, industries, user organisations...

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    Volume 1 / Issue 5 2005

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  • Documentation and Archiving

    Author Caroline Hommez   In this issue, we have decided to focus on one of the least excitingly, yet most crucial aspects of ehealth and telemedicine, namely documentation and archiving. All of the broad ehealth intitiatives ongoing in Europe, on national or hospital level, (EPR, PACS,…) rely on a strong, secure, and well organized documentation...

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  • Documentation Computerisation

    Author Martin Peacock Systems Development Officer Information Management Services Department Mater Misericoridiae University Hospital Dublin, Ireland Email : [email protected]   The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital is a charitable voluntary hospital which has been delivering healthcare...

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  • Ease of Use

    Author Sandra Pfeiffer, Editor-in-Chief, Philips Medical Systems Böblingen, Germany Email: [email protected]   When it comes to the ease of use of PACS, technical aspects (software, screen, and so on) are obvious. But the working environment is equally important. Many organisations see furniture and...

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  • Teledermatology as a Service Tool for Hospitals.

    Author Dr. Leonard Witkamp, Director of KSYOS TeleMedical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Email: [email protected]   The broad and upscaled use of telemedicine is hampered by rigid decision structures, slow adaptation processes and concerns for its consequences. Health Management Practice (HMP) addresses...

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  • RFID: Revolution in the Health System

    Author Dr Andrea Huber Managing Director, Informationsforum RFID e.V. c/o Hartmut Schultz Kommunikation GmbH Munich, Germany Email: [email protected]   Today, radio frequency identification (RFID) is increasingly being used in hospital management. RFID increases patient safety and...

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  • The World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition 2007

    Author Catalina Ciolan The recent World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition (WHT’07), held 22-25 October in Vienna, Austria offered, over the course of four days, an array of satellite symposia, perspectives from world leaders, peer-identified educational sessions as well as 59 vendor exhibitors.   This year’s supporters...

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