Diagnostic imaging toolkit from Canada Health Infoway
Canada Health Infoway is a not-for-profit organisation with the mission to promote and accelerate the adoption of electronic health information systems. Report: Cynthia E Keen
Data management
Multi-million euros IT
The Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU), in Toulouse, contracted Agfa HealthCare to install ORBIS, the company's clinical and administrative information system.
Cardiology PACS
The European PACS market gained $73.6 million revenues in 2005 and could rise to $200.5 million in 2012.
Buying a PACS? Think first!
Considerable analysis must influence your choice of system, advises Helmut Ringl MD, of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Vienna General Hospital, where life without a PACS is now 'unimaginable'
What PACS integration will mean to our services
Working in conjunction with Sicily's biggest public hospital, the radiology department at The University Hospital of Palermo carries out around 100,000 examinations annually and employs 35 physicians and biologists and has over 50 students. In an interview with EH, Professor Robert Lagalla, head of the department, discussed the current installation of a PACS that will serve the central radiology…
A model for future success?
Volker Hüsken PhD: Following his PhD studies in information technology and economics, in the department of electrical engineering at the RWTH Aachen, Dr Hüsken became a systems engineer at Siemens AG, where he directed the development of the Super Computer Reference Centre. After several years as IT Director with Klöckner Datentechnik and EDS, he became Senior Consultant for strategic…
`Moleculary´ medicine: now and the future
In an interview with Daniela Zimmermann, Executive Director of European Hospital, Dr Mohammad Naraghi, Head of the Department of Business Development at Siemens Medical Solutions, discussed developments in moleculary medicine, biochips, preventive diagnostics and a comprehensive and integrated health system for the future.
Pilot projects
A report from the 2nd Telemedicine Forum, organised by Tele Medical Systems AG (TMS).
Continuing experiences with RIS and PACS
A short story about life with and without PACS - Part II - written at the Klinikum Krefeld, Germany and the Kantonssptial, Liestal, Switzerland.
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
PACS: the never ending story
A short story about life with and without PACS written at the University Hospital for Radiodiagnostics.
ITALY
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…
Healthcare in Spain
General information concerning the country's healthcare is held at the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE).
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.
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.
Dictation device can be accessed via mobile phones and another scans barcodes
Philips Speech Processing recently introduced two new dictation devices to ease medical information recording.
Developing the electronic health card
For a number of years, both the Communications and Medical Solutions Groups of Siemens AG and the Bamberg-based firm DOCexpert Computer GmbH have been actively involved in creating IT-based end-to-end solutions for medical practices, medical care centres, clinics and integrated care networks.
A radically changing IT landscape
The mood at the International Forum for Healthcare IT (IteG 2006), held in Frankfurt, Germany, this May/June, indicated that this market is gaining momentum.
Elaborate, evolving network to link radiology and cardiology
During an EH interview, Professor Stefan Osswald MD described this complex system and its future potential
Integrating speech recognition with a RIS
A report turnaround time decrease of 50% leads doctors to plan for 100% usage of the dictation system. Interview: Armin Scheuer of HealthTech Wire.
Article • Internationalising IT systems
Agfa climbs over language and healthcare practice barriers
In recent years, Agfa HealthCare has dramatically expanded its IT portfolio in line with its strategy to be an international leader in healthcare IT. At the recent ITeG exhibition in Frankfurt, the company's ambitions were clearly visible: Agfa very much focused on ORBIS, its leading Hospital Information System. Daniela Zimmermann interviewed Eric Maurincomme, Vice President Business…
SCAR is now SIIM
The Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR) has undergone a name change. SCAR is now the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).
IT for cardiovascular workflow
Leading representatives of the Bush administration are politicising IT systems as a cornerstone for the revision of US healthcare. Updated technology is seen as mandatory for the future of healthcare, by improving chronic disease management, increasing disease prevention efforts, and the sustainability of the health insurance system.
PACS aids Czech cancer crusade
The Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (Masarykúv onkologick´y ústav - MOÚ) in is unique in the Czech Republic, for it covers all aspects of cancer care, provides medical training plus public health education, and participates in research. Around 180,000 outpatients and about 7,000 in-patients are treated annually. By Pavel Andres MD, Deputy Director of Medical Preventive Care at the Masaryk…