eHealthNews.eu Portal Digest - 13.03.2013

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Resource Management in Hospitals: Still a Largely Untapped Potential
9 - 11 April 2011, Berlin, Germany.
For years hospitals have been forced by cost-saving pressures to improve their internal processes to ensure they remain competitive. Not all options have been exploited yet. Multidimensional resource management can not only improve efficiency, but can also benefit the patient. At conhIT 2013 providers and users will be discussing the IT demands on modern hospital resource management as well as the obstacles that still stand in the way of solutions for the entire hospital sector.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/events/3424-resource-management-in-hospitals-still-a-largely-untapped-potential
 
Opinion Article: How IT Systems can Help Address the Key Findings of the Francis Report
By Dr. Paul Shannon, consultant anaesthetist in the NHS and medical director at CSC.
Many of the issues identified at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust could be seen at any hospital in the NHS. The overwhelming message of Francis was the need for 'cultural change' in the NHS. However, this is a tall order since the NHS doesn't so much have a culture, it is a culture and it's the individuals within the organisation that make up that culture.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/industry/3423-opinion-article-how-it-systems-can-help-address-the-key-findings-of-the-francis-report
 
Large Dutch Sleep Survey Reveals that 4 out of 5 People Suffering from Sleep Apnea are Unaware of It
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) announced the results of an extensive new scientific study into sleep apnea, conducted over the last two years by Philips in collaboration with University of Twente (Enschede, the Netherlands), Medisch Spectrum Twente Hospital (Enschede, the Netherlands), and patients' organization ApneuVereniging.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/philips/3422-large-dutch-sleep-survey-reveals-that-4-out-of-5-people-suffering-from-sleep-apnea-are-unaware-of-it
 
Agfa HealthCare - Full Year 2012
Agfa HealthCare was able to achieve year-on-year revenue growth in 2012. The revenue increase by 3.0 percent to 1,212 million Euro reflects the performance of the growth initiatives on the one hand, and the effect of the relative weakness of the Euro on the other hand.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/agfa/3421-agfa-healthcare-full-year-2012
 
Very Well Equipped - Despite Cost Pressure
By offering new upgrade options for hard- and software, Siemens Healthcare supports hospitals and practitioners operating under tight budgets. Thus, customers in different modalities can bring their existing systems up to date. Moreover, Siemens Healthcare offers systems that can be extended to additional functionalities when needed. One example is to enlarge the group of patients in the field of mammography.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/siemens/3420-very-well-equipped-despite-cost-pressure
 
Stalis and IPROS CUBE Collaborate to Support Quality Service Improvements Across all Healthcare Settings
Stalis and IPROS CUBE have announced a partnership to launch a Patient Experience feedback module. This new solution will bring together a blend of technology expertise for healthcare providers to manage, monitor and analyse online patient experience surveys to support performance measurements and delivery of quality service improvements in line with government targets.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/industry/3419-stalis-and-ipros-cube-collaborate-to-support-quality-service-improvements-across-all-healthcare-settings
 
EMIS Plans to Share Data with TPP Across CCG Clusters
EMIS - the UK's leading supplier of GP clinical systems - has announced discussions on a landmark record-sharing agreement with another supplier in a further move to make the vision of 'joined up' NHS care a reality. The company is planning to join forces with TPP to deliver one-to-one local health community data-sharing for clinical commissioning group (CCG) areas using both EMIS and TPP systems.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/emis/3418-emis-plans-to-share-data-with-tpp-across-ccg-clusters
 
Human Brain Treats Prosthetic Devices as Part of the Body
The human brain can learn to treat relevant prosthetics as a substitute for a non-working body part, according to research published in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Mariella Pazzaglia and colleagues from Sapienza University and IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia of Rome in Italy, supported by the International Foundation for Research in Paraplegie.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/research/3417-human-brain-treats-prosthetic-devices-as-part-of-the-body
 
Shearwater Healthcare and Graphnet Join Forces to Deliver Electronic Health Records
Shearwater Healthcare Solutions, the business accelerator founded by Ian Denley and Markus Bolton, has made a major investment in Graphnet Health, the UK's leading supplier of IT solutions for shared health and social care records. Graphnet's CareCentric solutions are used by over 30,000 NHS and local authority staff, and hold data on over 17m UK citizens.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/industry/3416-shearwater-healthcare-and-graphnet-join-forces-to-deliver-electronic-health-records
 
Pius Hospital Implements Agfa HealthCare's DX-D Retrofit Direct Radiography Upgrade Solution
Agfa HealthCare announces that it has implemented its DX-D Retrofit direct radiography (DR) upgrade solution at Pius Hospital in Oldenburg, Germany. This cost-effective yet versatile solution has allowed Pius Hospital to upgrade its existing computed radiography (CR) system to a DR solution, while maximizing its existing investments in imaging equipment.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/agfa/3415-pius-hospital-implements-agfa-healthcares-dx-d-retrofit-direct-radiography-upgrade-solution
 
eHealthServer.de - Aktuelle Nachrichten
 
GHX unterstützt die Standards GS1xml und eCl@ss 8, um die Beschaffungsprozesse im Gesundheitswesen und die Patientenversorgung nachhaltig zu optimieren
http://www.ehealthserver.de/ghx/487-ghx-unterstuetzt-die-standards-gs1xml-und-eclss-8-um-die-beschaffungsprozesse-im-gesundheitswesen-und-die-patientenversorgung-nachhaltig-zu-optimieren
 
Überregionale Vernetzung und Connected Care stehen für InterSystems im Mittelpunkt der conhIT 2013
http://www.ehealthserver.de/intersystems/488-ueberregionale-vernetzung-und-connected-care-stehen-fuer-intersystems-im-mittelpunkt-der-conhit-2013
 
 
Ressourcenmanagement im Krankenhaus: Potenziale längst noch nicht ausgeschöpft
http://www.ehealthserver.de/messen/485-ressourcenmanagement-im-krankenhaus-potenziale-laengst-noch-nicht-ausgeschoepft
 
 
 
 
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Belgium's UZ Brussels Introduces Agfa HealthCare's Innovative, 3-in-1 DX-D 800 X-Ray Room
http://www.ehealthserver.com/agfa/1299-belgium-s-uz-brussels-introduces-agfa-healthcare-s-innovative-3-in-1-dx-d-800-x-ray-room
 
 
 
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Ruslan David
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