• Is a Zero Capital Eexpenditure, Managed Service Model the Way Forward?

      With decreasing healthcare reimbursement and increasing  economic uncertainty, there is a growing trend for hospitals  to opt for a zero capital expenditure, managed service model  with the purchase of IT systems in healthcare. As the application  of managed service models emerges in the PACS  market, it paves the way for cloud technology to finally...

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  • Josep Manel Picas President, HITM

    Q: National Healthcare and Indeed Healthcare IT Systems Often Suffer from Fragmentation. Is this a Problem in Spain? A: There is no national IT healthcare programme in Spain. Spain is a highly decentralised country with regards to the organisation and provision of healthcare services, which means that the regions have the responsibility of the management...

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  • Survey Shows Generational Divide Poses Challenge to Adoption

    An Accenture survey of more than 3,700 doctors across eight countries has found that healthcare IT is improving health practices and there is common agreement on the top benefits of technology across countries. But some physicians do not yet see all the benefits, especially those over 50 or those who are not actively using healthcare IT, such as electronic...

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  • Structured Reporting

    Dear readers,  IMAGING Management has long stood for the professional development of competency and excellence, not just in medical imaging management, but all the ancillary roles of a healthcare leader. We are therefore delighted to support the first dedicated Management in Radiology (MIR) led workshop taking place on Saturday, March 3, at 13.00...

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  • The Nominees

    Ágora - Lightweight EHR Viewer  The EHR viewer (Ágora) in the Murcia Health Service displays real-time patient clinical information that is distributed across diverse and heterogeneous data sources in less than three seconds. Acting as mediator between its various information systems, Ágora simulates data centralisation without large-scale data storage....

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  • UK

    Patient group declare support for summary care record A year on from a Ministerial review that confirmed the importance of Summary Care Records in supporting urgent and emergency care,   patient groups are advocating its use to improve care for the millions of people with long term conditions they represent. The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign recently...

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  • French

    Medical Informatics Community Contributes to Fostering Health Information Systems Introperability After an agreement between the government Agency for Shared Health Information Systems (ASIP Santé) and the French Association for the Applications of Medical Informatics (AIM),  the latter is working to develop technical and semantic interoperability...

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  • E-Health Action Plan Public Consultation Results Published

    A final report on the public consultation on the eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 has been published. The consultation, which involved a range of stakeholders including NGOs, academic institutions, enterprises, health and social care providers and public authorities from many Member States, aimed to validate four proposed objectives and to explore possible...

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  • Another Successful IT @ Networking Awards

    The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers and the European Association of Hospital Managers is proud to present the Winners, finalists and nominees for the IT@networking Awards 2012 (IT@2012). These fifteen medical technology and healthcare IT projects came to brussels on the 18-19 January to battle it out to win the coveted IT@2012 trophy...

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  • The Systematisation of E-Health: Hungarian Examples

    Following my article written last year about the conception system, classification and situation of e-Health in Hungary I received numerous opinions, remarks, questions and ideas. It was interesting for me that health experts and informatics professionals working in other sectors see the problems and the possibilities from quite different perspectives....

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