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Dr Rimikis will be discussing:
IT
Out-of-hospital digital documentation
Vital patient-related data must be documented by emergency medical services, disaster relief units and emergency physicians, in out-of-hospital settings, and currently most of this is done entered manually on paper.
For use with microscopes
The new Olympus E-330 micro-imaging system for microscopy includes the world's first digital SLR camera to show real-time frame images on the LCD, the company reports. `The system is based around a 7.5 Megapixel sensor, which together with an array of unique features delivers incredibly sharp and vibrant images directly onto a 2.5 inch high-resolution colour LCD. Other features of the micro…
Philips Speech Recognition Systems acquires Kuhlmann-Informations-Systeme
Philips Speech Recognition Systems has acquired Kuhlmann-Informations-Systeme (KIS), a provider of dictation and speech recognition solutions for healthcare.
First PC dictation products available for Linux operating system
With the new Linux software development kit (SDK) Royal Philips Electronics introduced the first solution to integrate their SpeechMike products into a Linux operating system.
Visualising the breathing lung
After previous meetings in the USA (2002) and Japan (2004), this October the 3rd International Workshop of Pulmonary Functional Imaging (IWPFI) took place in the German Cancer Research Centre, based in Heidelberg University, Germany. " 'The clinicians' need for earlier and more detailed diagnosis in pulmonary disease demands a joint interdisciplinary effort to push the limits in pulmonary…
RSNA/US launch for EU healthcare consultancy
Launched in 2005, and introduced to a broader healthcare public at the 2006 European Congress of Radiology (ECR), Agfa Healthcare Consulting is now to be introduced to potential customers beyond Europe - at this year's RSNA in Chicago.
The electronic health card
„Through its engagement in various initiatives and publications ZVEI (the German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association) consistently underlines the great potential of IT in the healthcare system — in Germany and Europe. “It's a milestone in German healthcare modernisation within a European context”, says ZVEI
Networking cardiovascular imaging
There is no lack of IT and software solutions for putting digitisation and networks into practice; however, many hospitals wonder how the implementation will work in practice and whether the investment will prove successful.
New challenges require new management strategies
Rapidly changing conditions which affect patient throughput, require very quick reactions from hospital management.
Eye software firm focuses on the US market
Marc Winchester is new President, North America of Digital Healthcare Inc.
Advancements in Telepathology
Professor Werner Schlake, President of the German professional association of pathologists, described teleconsultation as the most significant application of telepathology.
Fast forward for clinical reporting
Digital dictation devices can read a patient's data, automatically assign information to the relevant report and interpret human speech into a text version. Armin Scheuer reports
Single image/data management system integrates major medical fields
IMPAX Enterprise - a single image and data management system that draws together radiology, cardiology, orthopaedics, and women's care.
The all-in-one alarm and speech pager
The Personal Security Pager (PS-Pager), made by Bosch Security Systems, is an innovative mobile that houses two products: a personal alarm device and speech pager. Compact, lightweight, robust, comfortable and discreet to wear, the device is also as easy to handle as the messages are to read.
Tracking drugs and assets
At over 200 years old, it is also one of the oldest hospitals, yet is classed as one of the most up-to-date institutes in Europe.
Progressing towards the EPR
Today, the Local Healthcare Company ASL Nº 11, of Empoli, Florence, is a highly advanced public utility, able to face the challenges of technological innovations and to perform long-term objectives with leadership and competence.
From analogue to digital
Thanks to the convertion from analogue to digital imaging, Kodak Health Group reported a considerable success in Europe.
Health Optimum
Downloading digitally signed clinical test results from home is possible and 40% of users residing in the Treviso region in Veneto, do so regularly.
Data management in cardiology
With CardioNet by SCHILLER SEMA the number of unnecessary multiple exams can be greatly reduced as family physician, specialist and hospital can exchange data.
EPR includes images
Germany - The Walldorf-based firm InterComponentWare AG (ICW) launched its hospital networking solution for electronic patients' records (EPR) at MEDICA 2005, reporting that the system can connect existing but so far isolated hospital information systems (HIS) without having to change currently used software.
