Healthcare’s Digital Transformation with HIMSS: Challenges, Innovations, and the Road Ahead
2024 24 May
Healthcare's transformation hinges on digitalisation, navigating challenges and steps to integrate data, leverage AI, fortify cybersecurity, and enable global data exchange. Strategic planning, collaboration, and innovation are needed to navigate this journey towards excellence in patient care. Key Points Digitalisation is driving...Read more
Rookie Mistakes in AI Transition for Healthcare
2024 24 May
Implementing AI in healthcare must include strategic vision, stakeholder engagement, ROI understanding, regulatory compliance, and scalability planning to fully leverage AI's potential to improve patient care and institutional efficiency. Key Points AI offers solutions to healthcare challenges by enhancing diagnostic precision, operational...Read more
How Change Management Activates Digital Transformation in Healthcare
2024 24 May
Navigating healthcare's digital transformation demands comprehensive change management, including transparent communication, collaborative culture building, and strategic investments, to realise improved patient outcomes and operational efficiencies. Key Points Digital transformation is crucial for healthcare organisations to remain...Read more
The Apulian e-Health Ecosystem: CORēHealth and TOC Interconnection
2024 24 May
In the Apulia Region, healthcare innovation in telemedicine began many years ago through various projects. The National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) provides for interventions to strengthen and innovate the technological and digital structure of the Italian NHS. Therefore, in continuity, Apulia has started the design and implementation...Read more
Opportunities in Digital Transformation
2023 28 Nov
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the digital transformation of health systems, prompting a shift in focus towards improving patient experiences and innovative forms of care delivery. Healthcare leaders are responsible for delivering improved, more effective care, but they face challenges in navigating the complexities of digitalisation. In this context,...Read more
Passion-Driven Employees Thanks to Robots and AI
2023 13 Nov
In today’s evolving workplace, robots and AI are reshaping jobs. While job displacement concerns exist, there’s a remarkable aspect: the potential for passionate employees. Automation of repetitive tasks not only enhances efficiency but also boosts job satisfaction. The benefits include positive interactions, happy employees, and more personalised...Read more
Unveiling Tomorrow: IT’s Pioneering Role in Revitalising Healthcare
2023 13 Nov
The integration of Information Technology (IT) in the healthcare sector is a beacon of transformation amidst modern challenges. This article illuminates the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and low-code solutions in healthcare. By exploring real-world examples and statistics, we shed light...Read more
Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Medicine: Leveraging AI to Elevate Care & Job Satisfaction
2023 30 Oct
In today’s demanding and fast-paced medical environment, physicians are challenged by time constraints, information overload, and waning job satisfaction. Assistive AI technologies offer promising solutions to the signal-to-noise conundrum in medicine. Key Points The avalanche of clinical and administrative information demands a balance...Read more
Towards the European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format
2023 30 Oct
XpanDH Project Support and Risks of a Delayed Regulation on the EHDS This paper presents the journey towards the European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EEHRxF) as a process of standardisation as social actors in Europe accept how necessary it is for digital health interoperability to be a reality to reap the benefits of digital...Read more
My Fundamental Right to Cross-Border Healthcare
2012 27 Aug
Dear Reader, Properly working cross-border healthcare is a fundamental right of every European citizen. This goes hand in hand with the free movement of persons. The European Union has its main focus on IT collaboration with the USA. But HITM feels that this is too narrow. Therefore we have taken the decision to closely collaborate with the Middle...Read more
Data Privacy in a Wider Perspective of Risk Management
2012 27 Aug
Data privacy should be seen in a wider perspective of risk management and governance. Due to recent events (e.g. the financial crisis), governance and risk management are hot topics for media coverage, especially within the financial sector. However, these topics are also high on the agenda in the boardrooms of private companies in the corporate...Read more
Data Ownership & Protection Issues
2012 27 Aug
Technological advances have created great opportunities for society to develop new products and services, and to communicate and share data. A tremendous amount of ubiquitous computational power and online services are used every day as a normal commodity. These new facilities allow data storage and exchange of information anytime and anywhere,...Read more
Uncluttered Management Thinking
2012 27 Aug
Imagine an operating room with surgeons and scrub nurses operating on a patient. Imagine they all had a different understanding of the word ‘surgery’. Imagine they were unsure about their tasks, competencies, and responsibilities. Imagine they would evaluate their performance by the duration of the operation rather than by the outcome. Imagine they...Read more
How to Conduct Staff Appraisals
2012 27 Aug
A staff appraisal is a periodical advisory and support discussion between staff members and management that fosters agreements about objectives and the achievement of targets, that can be incorporated into target agreements. This process provides the opportunity, in a systematic and structured way that is outside of every-day working routine, to discuss...Read more
Technology horizons: Digital radiography
2012 27 Aug
The emergence of digital radiography has altered the face of radiography in the recent past. It has offered a new standard for digital x-ray image capture. DR technology has brought about a transition from film-based image capture to direct digital image capture that can be previewed immediately after exposure. This optimised workflow provided by DR...Read more
Implementing Lossy Compression
2012 27 Aug
Canada is implementing a network of large data repositories designed to store all diagnostic imaging studies generated in hospitals and clinics across the country. There will be 18 such storage units covering all provinces, called DI-r (Digital Images Repositories). The goal of this project is to make all imaging studies available to healthcare professionals,...Read more
The Spanish Healthcare System
2012 27 Aug
In 1998 the Sistema Sanitario Público (public health service) brought in an official mandate for both doctors and patients outlining the service to which they are entitled, explained in the Carta de Derechos y Deberes (Charter of Rights and Obligations). Management The national system has been decentralised since 2002, which has given the regional...Read more
Josep Manel Picas President, HITM
2012 27 Aug
Q: National Healthcare and Indeed Healthcare IT Systems Often Suffer from Fragmentation. Is this a Problem in Spain? A: There is no national IT healthcare programme in Spain. Spain is a highly decentralised country with regards to the organisation and provision of healthcare services, which means that the regions have the responsibility of the management...Read more
Spain
2012 27 Aug
University of Granada researchers have developed a software tool that makes an accurate estimation of the risk that a person has to suffer a heart disease. In addition, this software tool allows the performance of massive risk estimations, i.e. it helps to estimate the risk that a specific population group has of suffering a heart condition....Read more
Telecare in Andalusia
2012 27 Aug
The University Hospital Virgen Macarena of Seville and the Superior Engineering School of Seville University are jointly carrying out a new research project for the implementation of a complete telecare system for kidney patients. “Modular customisable architecture for complete kidney patient telecare” will study the implementation of a telemedicine...Read more
UK
2012 27 Aug
The UK government has announced £4 million of funding for businesses to develop cutting-edge ideas to address some of the biggest health problems of our time. The Department of Health has opened two new competitions with up to £2 million of funding each to develop technological and innovative solutions that can: Change people’s behaviour in...Read more
Poland
2012 27 Aug
The Polish Ministry of Health has recently launched 'Dlapacjenta.mz.gov.pl', a portal providing practical information on the reimbursement of medicines. Designed as an easy-to-use and convenient information source on medicines reimbursed by the National Health fund, patients are the first target group. Through the new portal, patients have...Read more
Agfa
2012 27 Aug
A new agreement with DataFirst will deliver automated migration services for cardiology, significantly increasing efficiency and quality of the migration process. The companies will provide data migration service capabilities and archival storage solutions, enabling healthcare facilities to benefit from a rapid data migration process from aged...Read more
Carestream
2012 27 Aug
One of the first medical imaging data archiving and sharing projects in France using CARESTREAM Vue Cloud PACS and Vue Cloud Archive is now operational. Data is hosted at the Roanne Numeri- Parc secure data centre (ISO27001 certified) in the Loire Region (south-east of France), and built around the Axione highspeed telecommunications network....Read more
IBM
2012 27 Aug
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and IBM have agreed to collaborate on the development of a powerful tool built upon IBM Watson in order to provide medical professionals with improved access to current and comprehensive cancer data and practices. The resulting decision support tool will help doctors everywhere create individualised...Read more
Sectra
2012 27 Aug
The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg has invested in the Sectra Visualisation Table. Gothenburg thus becomes the second Swedish University in a short period of time to reinforce its medical training by acquiring Sectra’s visualisation table. The visualisation table at the University of Gothenburg will be used by students...Read more
Aperio
2012 27 Aug
Aperio, provider of digital pathology systems, announced a strategic collaboration with Dell to create the world's first scalable, secure medical cloud network for Pathology. Through its secure cloud-based Unified Clinical Archive solution, Dell manages nearly five billion medical images and studies for healthcare organisations. Now, Dell...Read more
Integrated IT to Optimise Patient Care
2012 27 Aug
In March of this year COCIR - the European trade association for the medical technology industry hosted a meeting with the European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, John Dalli and senior representatives from hospital and healthcare providers. The meeting in Paris showcased how integrated IT and innovative financial partnerships are...Read more
Kpmg Report: Tech-Savvy Baby Boomers to Drive Demand for E-Health
2012 27 Aug
The report from KPMG together with the Manchester Business School, Accelerating Innovation: The power of the crowd, is based on in-depth interviews with ehealth executives representing 15 countries, as well as insights from KPMG's global healthcare partners. Due to changing demographics, the need to reduce costs and to increase the quality of...Read more
Call for Papers
2012 27 Aug
Researchers are invited to submit research articles addressing the new research and development of wearable devices, which can be used for the monitoring and treatment of patients suffering from chronic diseases. Of particular interest are papers which consider a set of sensors, algorithms for physiological signal processing, collection of environmental...Read more
