Nurses go wireless in Essen

Soon the nursing service at Essen University Hospital will become wireless as part of its ambitious wireless health IT project.

UAE government announced new federal health strategy and modernisation program

The Ministry of Health, UAE has announced 35 initiatives in public healthcare to be implemented in the next three years. The ministry is seeking to become the regulator of healthcare services under the new health strategy for 2008 to 2010, which includes unifying healthcare policies and offering more medical specialties.

Rhapsody integration engine expands NHS Trust connectivity

Orion Health Limited, a leading provider of integration and clinical workflow technology to the health sector, has recently announced that Rhapsody

New York Governor launches comprehensive health information technology program

New York, Governor Eliot Spitzer’s recently announced the launch a comprehensive health information technology program

IBM/Mainsoft Portal Solution to Serve Medical Community

IBM and Mainsoft Corporation, recently announced that the Belgian University Hospital Ghent (UZ Gent) has chosen IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 to develop a self-service virtual information center for its 5,000 staff members, students, healthcare professionals, plus more than 380,000 patients and their families that visit the hospital each year.

Life-saving technology gets an upgrade in Northern Canada

Life saving diagnosis of a patient who survived stroke in North Bay, Canada with remote assistance from a neurologist 300 Km away in Toronto via telecommunications technology and digital brain images captured and transmitted by using computers, cameras and software

Life-saving technology gets an upgrade in Northern Canada

The Canadian Northland Transportation Commission. commission’s telecommunications branch will invest about $4 million to improve and expand bandwidth and security for healthcare services. The work will allow all 117 hospitals in North Canada to link up to a high capacity healthcare network.

Health needs the right dose of IT

[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Editorial

Laboratory Information Systems – Opportunities in APAC

[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) is a uite of software applications that help anage the daily operations of a aboratory, ensuring better control and anagement of resources.

e-Health 2.0 – Opportunities for Public Health Informatics : Susheel Oommen John

[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Diseases pose an immense challenge to those affected by them as well as for the care providers.

eHealth India 2007 – July 31 August 02 2007, The Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi

[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Quality of public health and availability of proper healthcare amenities are one of the prime yardsticks for estimating the level of development and well being of any country or society.

NEWS REVIEW – WORLD

[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

News

Spatial Health Management Information System (SHMIS) : Pramod K Singh, Institute of Rural Management, Anand

[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

The article briefly describes the status of
health and health infrastructure in India and also tries to discuss governance issues involved in delivery of public health care.