Data management

The 3M Healthcare Forum 2006

DRG and quality management as a success factor in hospital management

Electronic patient records

The UK Health Minister has set out key details of what patients and the public can expect from the NHS Care Records Service.

One-touch testing for electromedical equipment

With `braincell´concept, Riger Medical provides a safe and effective electronical equipment for Biomedical Engeneering departments.

World Congress of Cardiology 2006

Professor Raimung Erbel, of the West GErman Heart Centre Esse, Duisburg University Hospital aobut the hot topics of this years´congress.

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

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.

Integration for comprehensive solutions

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.