A pilot project begun in February by the Ministry of Health and the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) has resulted in Bulgaria issuing its first electronic medical cards. The pilot project is run by the international eHealth specialist ICW* in partnership with the firms Cisco and Kontrax.
Der „10. Deutsche IIR Pflege-Management-Kongress” findet vom 23. bis 25. Oktober 2007 in Köln statt. Rund 20 Experten des Gesundheitswesens diskutieren über die Zukunft der Pflege in deutschen Krankenhäusern. Der wachsende wirtschaftliche Druck im Gesundheitswesen verändert die Finanzierungsgrundlagen und sorgt im Pflegewesen für eine angespannte Personalsituation.
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) originated in the late 1990s in the United States during a concentrated action between radiologists and technical personnel for hospital information systems. Represented by the RSNA(Radiological Society of North America) and the HIMSS (Health Care Information end Management Systems Society) users end manufacturers gathered together to guide the digital…
During the past several years, the term DICOM has become a phrase in the digital world of radiological diagnostics. For image production and processing as well as in organizational and administrative processing, DICOM has proven itself to be the crucial "traffic junction." The demands for a common image and communications standard follow from the development of new generations of…
1. INTRODUCCIÓN Como señaló Byram (1), el sector sanitario, siempre tan cambiante, precisa de líderes que ayuden a navegar a través de las tormentas....
Documentation in hospital is a time consuming process: Clinicians speak their reports on a dictation system, but have no full control of report creation as members of the transcription department finalize it. Sometimes this complex procedure takes several days to be finished.
During modernisation, the law governing machines already installed in contaminated hospital sluice rooms in exactly the same way as new machines, i.e. they must comply with the same Medical Devices Act requirements as new machines.
La gestión clínica se ha consolidado como estrategia de reforma central en España. El artículo analiza experiencias internacionales y demuestra cómo la integración de la expertise médica con principios de gestión puede mejorar la eficiencia del sistema sanitario, con ejemplos de Andalucía, Estados Unidos y otros países europeos.
Hospitalium is a new concept that will enable patients to have a direct dialogue with the leading healthcare providers worldwide. This will be achieved by enforcing free health consultancy services with leading providers of different specialities.
On 18 July 2005, The US News & World Report, one of the highest circulation weekly magazines in the United States, ran an article on the Best Hospitals in the United States and selected Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHU) as the No. 1 institution in 2005 out of the 176 top American hospitals. JHU has been ranked No.1 for more than 10 years in a row.
It was a living room-revolution: The introduction of the DVD in 1996. DVD players impressed their users with superior images and convenient handling, for example the possibility to choose several chapters from a structured menu instead of spinning a tape back and forth searching for a special scene.
Interview with fashion designer Yoshiharu Ito on fashion differences between Japan and Europe
Berchtold markets a multi-specialty surgical table that can articulate heavyweight patients yet maintain necessary height.
Medical Interconnect aims to smoothly transmit data produced by medical equipment to the hospital information systems (HIS). Thomas Breig, Head of Distribution - Digital Hospital at Hewlett Packard and Jens Dommel, who is responsible for Healthcare/Communes/Non-profit Organisations at Microsoft Germany GmbH, explained the purpose of this software to Denise Hennig, of European Hospital
MediMap is an innovative Internet portal developed in the framework of an EU project with partners from eight countries. The aim is to encourage an exchange of experience between European regions and to initiate and facilitate partnerships and business relationships throughout Europe for scientific organisations and enterprises in the medical technology sector.
Sectra recently found a new distribution partner for it's PACS systems in Poland: Edo Med Sp.z o.o., a well established company throughout the radiology and oncoloy market. With this step Sectra will provide solutions for the increasing demand of digital imaging technologies in Poland.
During the last ten years or so, there has been a convergence of modern international science with traditional Chinese medicine, with research carried out in physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology.
Could a computer programme help? Recommendations of the Robert-Koch-Institute
By Professor Jan Kluytmans MD, of the Microbiology and Infection Control Laboratory, Amphia Hospital, Breda
Made in Germany, the Induproof-Series includes keyboards and mouse (InduMouse) that are completely sealed to IP68 standards. They can be cleaned with disinfecting wipes and, impressively, submerged up to three metres in liquid or cleaned with high-pressure water jets, the manufacturer reports.
With entries from infection control teams from all over the world, with each hospital facing different challenges and with widely differing resources at their disposal, judges working on the 2006/2007 Oxoid Infection Control Team of the Year Awards focused on teams that had demonstrated that they really made a difference to standards of infection control within their own hospitals and have set…
Just as medical teams are getting used to using management and hospital information systems (HIS) the next wave of innovative IT products and solutions is ready to hit them.
Digital data exchange between hospitals is often not possible without replacing software.
UK - Looking at the growing need to understand how digitisation of health information will impact upon patients, staff and managers across the health service, Professor Ann Blandford of the University College London, and Professor Peter Lunt, surveyed 200 patients as well as their representatives, clinicians and other healthcare professionals (librarians and IT staff) working in eight NHS trusts.…
By Kaj Blomqvist MSc (E.E.), electronic engineer for the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), and currently in charge of the `Picis CareSuite Project´, which aims to automate all HUS acute care departments.
