New co-chair for IHE
Jacqueline Surugue has been appointed as co-chair for users on the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise steering committee. Surugue is a hospital pharmacist from the Poitou Charentes region of France, where she heads the pharmacy department at the 1,200 bed Centre Hospitalier George Renon in Niort. She is also president of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists […]
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Agfa Healthcare integrates Oasis
Agfa Healthcare, part of Agfa-Gaveart, has signed an agreement to integrate Oasis workstation software from Segami Corporation into the workflow of its latest Impax PACS system. The new software is said to enable physicians to review, process and report studies, helping to streamline patient care in nuclear medicine by providing a single system that automates […]
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College highlights poor PACS image sharing
Picture Archiving and Communication Systems are largely successful in individual hospitals but communication between systems in different hospitals is poor, according to a new position paper from the Royal College of Radiologists.
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epSOS makes strong start
Europe’s flagship 12-nation electronic health record interoperability project, epSOS, has made a strong start with new countries now asking to join. Already the Smart Open Services for European Patients (epSOS) project involves 27-players from 12 European states. Participants include ministries of health, national competency centres and industry. Backed by €11m of European Commission funding, together […]
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Vienna to host IHE’s 2009 Connectathon
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Europe will hold its ninth annual Connectathon event in Vienna, Austria, on 20-24 April next year. The Connectathon provides a unique opportunity for application interoperability testing, taking existing standards and frameworks and showing they work in real systems. The event will be hosted by the Austrian IHE initiative, which says […]
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IHE publishes tendering recommendations
The German section of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) has published a paper advising hospital representatives on how to phrase bid invitations for health IT solutions. The goal is to spread the IHE profiles more rapidly. Originally, IHE was an initiative that aimed to increase the interoperability of devices and software solutions in radiology. Today, […]
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Chasing a chimera
Dr John Somers of Nottingham City Hospital explains how England’s PACS programme is hoping to make PACS the repository for all radiological images.
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Open eHealth Foundation sets out priorities
The Open eHealth Foundation (OeHF), an open source initiative for improving the exchange of medical information using existing standards, has been incorporated as a non-profit organisation in Delaware enabling it to begin operations. The OeHF is intended to provide software components under an Open Source license that will boost the open standards-based exchange of medical […]
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CfH lead says standards important but not enough
Defining standards is important but it is not sufficient, a leading Connecting for Health officer told delegates at a conference on sharing clinical documents and integrating workflow. Jeremy Thorp, Connecting for Health’s director of information systems and business architecture, was speaking at a meeting organised by the IHE-UK Organisation and the British Computer Society, running […]
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IHE to run first UK Connectathon
Next month a major milestone for clinical interoperability in healthcare will be achieved, with the first Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Connectathon.
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