World of Health IT
WHIT ’07, which will be held in the Austria Centre, Vienna, from 22-25 October, is keen to achieve consensus within the eHealth community and has developed a series of group packages for delegates from all sections of the community to facilitate this.
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Evolution, not revolution
Jens Naumann, head of the German industrial association of health IT companies, talks to Philipp Gratzel about the forthcoming roll out of electronic health cards.
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Barnet and Chase Farm: two months on
Two months after Barnet and Chase Farm went live with Millennium E-Health Insider reports on how the trust working through teething problems.
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Voice Recognition
There is something wonderfully space-age about speech recognition. Long before most people had ever seen a computer, they had seen the space explorers of 1960s TV talking to one.
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I am not a gambler
Frank Gotthardt, head of Gemany’s fast-growing CompuGroup, tells E-Health Europe why he was not willing to buy iSoft at any price.
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Hardware for Digital Imaging
As the old ways of capturing and storing medical images are replaced by a new-generation of modalities and picture archive and communications systems (PACS), so the equipment for viewing images is undergoing equally profound change.
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Intersystems Sponsored Feature
InterSystems has enabled the rapid creation, deployment and integration of critical applications in the world’s most prestigious healthcare institutions. This feature profiles work in three countries and includes an interview with Director Phil Birchall.
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60 Second Interview: Chris Cook
In the latest 60 second interview focusing on the people making NHS computing work, Joe Fernandez quizzes Chris Cook, IT director for the private Nuffield Hospitals group.
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IMIA and WHO to ‘revitalise relationships’
Reporting from Medinfo in Brisbane, Australia, Neil Versel, interviews the World Health Organisation’s e-health co-ordinator.
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CfH benefits bigger than problems
The new NHS computer system is fraught with problems but offers huge benefits if clinicians play a greater role in its creation, says Dr Henry Dowlen.
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