The question is increasingly significant. Information technology (IT) has thrust itself into all corners of life — some argue for better, some for worse, largely because efficient electronic networking cannot happen overnight. Thus gatherings to share experiences are valuable, as seen in the Berliner Klinik-IT Forum, a two-day event in January, supported by the Charité Berlin. The theme was:…
Martin von Bergh MD PhD MBA, founder and CEO of Global Medical Consulting, is a practicing medical doctor, emergency physician and disaster manager, with an MBA in International Hospital Management.
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.
The 'revolutionary' Activion16 Multislice CT system will be launched at the ECR 2007 congress Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation reports.
The Aquillion 64/32 slice CT-systems by Toshiba Medical Systems has become a favourite with radiologists: Recently the 1,000th system was implemented at Tonan Hospital, KKR Sapporo Medical Center in Japan. With that landmark figure, the company is on a par with CT market leaders as GE Healthcare.
Philips Speech Recognition Systems has acquired Kuhlmann-Informations-Systeme (KIS), a provider of dictation and speech recognition solutions for healthcare.
Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, boasts the country's third-largest hospital. East-Tallinn Central Hospital (ETCH) has 587 beds, 26,000 inpatients and last year recorded 425,000 outpatient visits. It dates from 1785 when the former Tallinn Central began to operate as a town hospital. However, in 2001, four hospitals and two polyclinics were merged to form ETCH.
XL, an exclusive, dry, long film for use in the Horizon XL printer - currently the only digital long film imager on the market - promises to not only to reduce costs, save space, and completely eliminate wet film processing needs, but also to enhance orthopaedic studies of paediatric and adult spines, scoliosis and long bone hip-to-ankle.
To meet US requirements, Provotec GmbH & Co KG, of Espelkamp - which is entering US and international markets with their Prognost XPE tables - has increased the patient load and will have UL and CCC approval.
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.
In July, Siemens Medical Solutions launched syngo WebSpace, a new client-server computed tomography (CT) system that is the first to provide real-time access to patient's CT scans on personal computers (PCs) and laptops, via a simple network connection.
Beckman Coulter developed a new integrated lab systems: The UniCel DxC880i prototype should deliver efficient disease management services.
Frederik L Giesel MD MBA about the importance of process management and efficiency in hospitals.
Rescue workers are often confronted with chaotically situations which are hard to sum up and coordinate.
Spanish event surprised with a number of high-profile IT projects.
High-profile IT projects aimed at increasing efficiency and improving patient care.
DRG and quality management as a success factor in hospital management
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a fancy tool for metabolic imaging. This week Tom Lewellen from the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle takes a detailed look on what is to expect of the recent developments in PET detector technology.
Most hospitals must now report on the origin, cost and usage of all equipment and supplies. However, far less is known about a hospital's most important and expensive* asset: employees. Despite financial pressures, DRGs, and the EuGH judgement, which aims to end stress (particularly for junior doctors) discussion of the economical and effective use of personnel is frequently avoided, or can evoke…
“The UK is at the forefront of worldwide educational practice”.
In preparation for EU entry, Romania's laboratories are in the process of raising standards.
Bologna - The University Hospital S.Orsola-Malpighi has 1,800 beds and is one of the largest to install the DNLab management system. With 150 workstations connected to the LIS and over 50 analysers, each day, the two laboratories (central and microbiology) receive almost 3,000 orders and carry out over nine million tests annually. Hospital wards and departments are connected via Web to the LIS…
