With respect to the sufficiently rapid utilisation of innovations, European healthcare systems are inadequately prepared for the pace of innovation that has now been reached, representatives of the European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry (COCIR) said at the European Health Forum Gastein.
Medical technology innovation, often viewed as a cost-driver can also be the key to cost-cutting in healthcare while at the same time improve the health outcome for patients. This was the core message of an experts' panel organised by the European Health Technology Institute for Socio-Economic Research (EHTI) at the European Health Forum Gastein.
Das Medizintechnik-Unternehmen Maquet hat ein modular erweiterbare Lösung für die digitale OP-Integration entwickelt. AV CONFERENCE PREMIUM ermöglicht Krankenhäusern zukünftig eine individuelle Zusammenstellung von einzelnen Komponenten für die digitale OP-Integration.
Dragon Medical 10 the speech recognition software from Nuance, helps doctors and other medical specialists to achieve efficient and accurate clinical reporting.
In den kommenden Wochen und Monaten werden die Krankenkassen mit der Ausgabe der neuen elektronischen Gesundheitskarte (eGK) an ihre Mitglieder starten. Damit der Basis-Rollout der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte auch in der Praxis reibungslos abläuft, kooperieren TeleCash GmbH & Co. KG, eine Tochtergesellschaft des weltweiten Anbieters von Zahlungsdienstleistungen First Data und einer…
Unlimited digital communication between European healthcare systems - that's the aim of the European Commission's e-health activities. In particular, an electronic version of the European Health Insurance Card is coming closer. However, the road towards a standardised electronic patient summary is somewhat rockier.
Hospitals that use electronic medical record systems can improve the process of discharging inpatients by implementing electronic reports instead of dictated ones. More information can be provided in a faster, more reliable manner to the patients' caregivers outside the hospital, Electronic discharge summaries standardize the format and content of patient records to primary care physicians at the…
En España se están realizando grandes esfuerzos para poner a disposición de todos los ciudadanos la historia clínica electrónica (HCE) a nivel regional. HealthTech Wire ha realizado una entrevista a Javier Quiles del Río, Jefe del Área Clínica del Servizo de Tecnoloxías da Información e Infraestructuras del Servicio Galego de Saúde, sobre la evolución de la implantación de la HCE en…
When prescribing drugs electronically, US clinicians often over-ride automatic drug warning alerts in computer-based systems, according to a new study led by researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre (BIDMC), Boston, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine (9/2/09).
Human interaction is of the utmost importance in healthcare services, but with ever-increasing demands on tight budgets, which increase pressures on staff and service levels, it's high time that self-service stepped in to lend a hand.
Working in partnership to integrate diagnostic imaging, laboratory diagnostics and IT, the Hospital Clinic Barcelona and Siemens Healthcare aim to develop innovative systems to prevent, treat and follow-up for various pathologies.
President Barack Obama has made e-prescribing an element of his plan to improve the US healthcare system
April, the month of showers and flowers, and most importantly for those working in healthcare IT, two European congresses: ConhIT and Med-e-Tel.
Claus Peter Waegemann , CEO of the Medical Records Institute (MRI) in Boston, USA, has promoted the idea of electronic patient records (EPR) internationally for 25 years.
More for less: Driving up performance in acute care
The Nordic countries have a reputation for being among Europe's avant-garde in the field of digital healthcare solutions. HealthTech Wire talked to Arto Ryymin, executive Vice President of Tieto's healthcare and welfare business, about what the rest of Europe can learn from the Nordic countries and about how health IT companies can support the standardization efforts under way in Europe.
Die internationale IHE-Initiative (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) setzt sich für die Integration verschiedener Informationsstandards in klinischen Arbeitsabläufen ein, so dass medizinische IT-Systeme unterschiedlicher Hersteller Informationen austauschen können. Das Einsparpotenzial ist für viele der rund 2.100 deutschen Kliniken überlebenswichtig. Denn sie sind mit steigenden Kosten…
A study carried out this year by the VHitG e.V. (a German association of IT solutions providers for healthcare) produced the first complete market analysis of systems installed in hospitals, along with an evaluation of the use of IT through the subjective appraisals of the users. The objective of the standardised online questionnaire, in which 480 people participated, was to determine the trends,…
The first Connectathon of `eFA´, a hospital-driven German electronic patient record (EPR) project was considered a success by health IT providers and hospital representatives. During the Berlin event, Siemens, iSoft, and Ispro received certificates for implementing basic eFA functionalities in their connected care solutions, writes Philipp Grätzel von Grätz
Increasing populations and the additional storage requirements for a spiralling volume of their medical data cause acknowledged concerns among healthcare organisations.
Members of the EC Information Society and Media Directorate-General, Ilias Iakovidis, Deputy Head of Unit, and Project Officers Flora Giorgio and Michael Palmer, outline the potential of a project set to bring cross-border healthcare into reality.
Medical professionals have immediate access to patients' clinical records. They are able to check results and to ask for internal consultations: This is possible thanks to the Florence Mobile which was presented at the Microsoft Iberia Meeting in Budapest.
This two-day event, held in Notwil, Switzerland, in September, hosted over 1,600 participants and 80 exhibitors, and attracted about 100 more visitors than in 2007.
Hitachi Data Systems and Mawell form strategic partnership to streamline the management of patient records and images: According to recent EU research, ever-lengthening life expectancy means that Europe's pensioner population is set to swell to more than 100 million by 2050.
Health systems and health policies across the EU are becoming ever more interconnected which raises many health policy issues. On 2 July 2008, in the context of the Renewed Social Agenda, the European Commission tabled a proposal for a directive on patients' rights in cross-border healthcare. Essential precondition for cross-border healthcare is the existence of electronic health record systems…