South African Primary Healthcare Information System Takes Top Prize at IT @ Networking 2012

Conference News 21 Jan 2012
Ian de Vega from the Medical Research Council in South Africa fought off fierce competition to take home the coveted IT @ 2012 Trophy and 2,500 euro cash prize at the IT @ Networking Awards 2012   The winning solution, “Successful Development and Implementation of a Primary Healthcare Information System” is a primary healthcare information system (PHCIS) that is being implemented at all primary healthcare facilities in the Western Cape province. Since the start of the project in 2006, PHCIS has been implemented at 103 facilities and has created electronic records for 3.75...
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Carestream Health Garners 47 New Patients in 2011
Carestream and its subsidiaries were awarded 47 patents in 2011 for innovations in its radiology imaging and healthcare IT, dental imaging and molecular imaging products from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. These new patents include: improvements in image processing techniques for digital radiography and...
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RSNA 2011: 3D Modeling Offers Hope to Facial Injury Victims
By combining conventional medical imaging with some of the same 3D modeling techniques used in Hollywood blockbusters, researchers are offering new hope to victims of serious facial injuries. Results of a new study on human face transplantation, led by Darren M. Smith, M.D., plastic surgery resident at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (...
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KLAS Announces 2010 Top 20 Software and Service Vendors

KLAS has announced its annual "2010 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services," ranking the best-performing software and professional service vendors across a wide range of market segments, from EMRs to PACS to Financial/ERP.   The annual list, based on more than 17,000 interviews conducted with healthcare...
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New "Virtual Liver" Technology Helps Detect Liver Tumours
Scientists and surgeons from France, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland have developed a "virtual liver", using EU research funding, which will help surgeons better plan and carry out tumour operations and ensure quicker patient recovery. The PASSPORT project (Patient-Specific Simulation and Pre-Operative Realistic Training) makes a...
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New "Virtual Liver" Technology Helps Detect Liver Tumours
Scientists and surgeons from France, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland have developed a "virtual liver", using EU research funding, which will help surgeons better plan and carry out tumour operations and ensure quicker patient recovery. The PASSPORT project (Patient-Specific Simulation and Pre-Operative Realistic Training) makes a...
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UK Patient Groups 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 recommended that their patients consider...
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Competition Heats Up: Top Eight Finalists Selected at IT @ Networking Awards 2012
Conference News 19 Jan 2012
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Innovative healthcare IT and medical technology solutions are one step closer to winning the coveted IT @ 2012 trophy and cash prize at the IT @ Networking Awards 2012.   Willy Heuschen, Secretary General of the European Association of Hospital Managers officially opened the event, welcoming contestants and delegates. Heuschen highlighted the increasing importance and relevance of healthcare IT and the great opportunity the IT @ Networking Awards is for decision-makers to learn about these solutions; to have access to their developers and users; and to ask questions and judge the...
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New Editorial Board Members for Healthcare IT Management
Healthcare IT Management (HIT), the Official Journal of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers, is delighted to welcome our new Editorial Board Members: Jacob Hofdijk, Vice President EFMI-IMIA Dr. Andrea Kdolski, former Minister...
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Slovakia Signs 32 Million Euro E-Health Deal
The Slovakian Ministry of Health has signed a €32.4m deal with US company Ness Technologies to implement the first phase of its electronic healthcare system. The two year deal will provide an 'electronic health book' for every...
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