2011

Volume 6 / Issue 1 / 2011

COVER: IT @ Networking Awards 2011: Winners and Finalists

FEATURES: Advances PACS Applications; the Integrated OR; Computer Surveillance and Antimicrobial Resistance.

COUNTRY FOCUS: Cyprus

 

2010

Volume 5 / Issue 5 / 2010

COVER: Healthcare IT Megatrends

FEATURES: Healthcare Reforms in the US; Security Considerations for Mobile Communications; Evidence-Based Design, Driving Operational Efficiency; Patient Data Safety.

COUNTRY FOCUS: France

Volume 5 / Issue 3-4 / 2010

 

COVER: Enterprise Architecture: Accepting Chaos

FEATURES: Healthcare and Robotics; Midwives and Technology: The Case from New Zealand; Can Barcodes Revitalise the NHS; E-Health in Africa: Beyond the Hype; Fluid Data Management: Cure for Storage Headaches

COUNTRY FOCUS: Netherlands

Volume 5 / Issue 2 / 2010

COVER: Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0

MANAGEMENT: Investing in the Hospital of the Future

FEATURES: Nursing and E-Health; Health Technology Assessment and Cost Effective Healthcare; E-Health and its Challenges; Silverlight Implementation

COUNTRY FOCUS: Austria and Switzerland

Volume 5 / Issue 1 / 2010

COVER: Grid Computing and E-Health

MANAGEMENT: Healthcare Asset Maintenance and Patient Safety; Development of Productivity Measurements for Healthcare IT

FEATURES: Challenges in the Design of Sensors for Telemedicine; Strengthening Alliances for Medical Progress and Quality; Time to Start Developing Your m-Health Strategy

COUNTRY FOCUS: Iberia 

2009

Volume 4 / Issue 4 / 2009

COVER: On Demand IT Services

MANAGEMENT: Databank: A Timely Data Source for Hospital Management; Matching Talent and Jobs

FEATURES: Healthcare IT in the Gulf; Telecardiology Applications in Italy; Cloud Computing: Hype or Hope; Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare IT; Transforming Clinicians’ Workflow: The Case for Mobile Point of Care; Health IT Stimulus: Obama’s Dream or Nightmare

COUNTRY FOCUS: UK

Volume 4 / Issue 3 / 2009

COVER: E-Prescribing

MANAGEMENT: Team Management and Leadership

FEATURES: Healthcare Interoperability; Healthcare IT in Australia; Value Based Service Innovation in Healthcare; The Data Challenge for Healthcare IT: Strategic Vs Tactical Information; The European Centre for Health Technology; Electronic Patient Records in the Care Continuum 

COUNTRY FOCUS: Nordic Countries

Volume 4 / Issue 2 / 2009

COVER: Customising Healthcare IT; Customarisation Case Study

MANAGEMENT: Value Modeling in Healthcare

FEATURES: Oncology HIS Systems; Healthcare IT Reforms in the US; E-Health Investment; Predicting Patient Admission Rates; Nanotechnology and Healthcare; Healthcare IT in India

COUNTRY FOCUS: Italy

Volume 4 / Issue 1 / 2009

COVER: From E-Health to I-Health

MANAGEMENT: Asset Management: From Hospital Bedding to Software

FEATURES: ‘I Have A Dream’ – Barack Obama’s Healthcare IT Vision; Integrating the Health Enterprise: The IHE Mission; Smart Cards and Healthcare: Learning from Europe; Remote Care of Patients: The Personal Health Devices Standard; Patient Classification Systems: The Brazilian Experience; Britain Moves to Lift Mobile Phone Ban in Hospitals

COUNTRY FOCUS: Belgium

IT Volume 3 / Issue 1

 

2008

Volume 3 / Issue 5 / 2008

COVER: Healthcare IT in Europe: Search for Efficiency and Cost Control

FEATURES: The Electronic Health Record in Serbia; The Computerization of Healthcare in Romania; Doing the Right Thing for the Wrong Reasons; Cardiology and IT in the Context of IHE; EHR: Privacy vs. Interoperability; Software as a Service (SaaS); One-Size-Fits-All? No, Not Always, in IT; IT and Medical Technology: Growing Convergence

MANAGEMENT: Healthcare IT and Rol; Healthcare and the Financial Crisis

COUNTRY FOCUS: Eastern Europe

Volume 3 / Issue 4 / 2008

COVER: Hospital IT Architectures: JEE, .Net and Beyond

FEATURES: PROMILE: Making E-Health Real; Real Time Location: RFID, W-LAN, Wi-Fi & Ultrasound; Georgia’s CIS Implementation; A Look Back at the EU RTD Programme FP-6 (Part II); Healthcare IT: The Business of the Profession; The Challenge of Capacity Planning: A Core Role for IT; Recommendation on Cross-Border EHR Interoperability

MANAGEMENT: MIS Dashboards: Buy or Build

COUNTRY FOCUS: Central Europe

Volume 3 / Issue 3 / 2008

COVER: EHRs in the US; IT in Clinical Trials

FEATURES: E-Health with Citizens and Choices; Home Healthcare for the Aged and IT; The Evolving Role of the CMIO; PACS and IT; Evolution in Healthcare IT Delivery; A Look Back at the EU RTD Programme FP-6

MANAGEMENT: Hospital Mergers and IT in the Czech Republic; Whither the AS/400; GPs and IT

COUNTRY FOCUS: Ireland

Volume 3 / Issue 2 / 2008

COVER: Hospital Information Systems

FEATURES: Laboratory Information Management Systems; IT in the Intensive Care Unit; Mobile IT Solutions in Healthcare; The Electronic Health Record; The EU RTD Program FP-7: Health IT Projects

MANAGEMENT: IT and Corporate Governance; Telecoms and Healthcare IT

COUNTRY FOCUS: France

IT Volume 2 / Issue 1

Volume 3 / Issue 1 2008

COVER: The Clinical Information System; IT @ 

FEATURES: The 21st Century Digital Hospital; The Broadband Challenge for Isolated Communities; Healthcare and Big IT; The Electronic Health Record; Remote Data Replication

MANAGEMENT: Six Sigma; Managing Change in Healthcare; Videoconferencing

COUNTRY FOCUS: Switzerland

2007

Volume 2 / Issue 1 Spring 2007

COVER: Future of the European Laboratory Information Systems Market; Perspective on Lab Automation: Past, Present and Future

FEATURES: A Unified Systems Engineering Methology for Trustworthy Systems; SNOMED CT- Enabling Semantic Interoperability Through ClinicalTerminology; The OFEK Health Information Network; Reducing Security Risks to e-Health; Reducing Security Risks to e-Health; Benefits of Open Source in Healthcare

MANAGEMENT: Implementing Reforms & IT; Deploying Top Quality Teams to Modernise IT Systems

COUNTRY FOCUS: Netherlands