As government and healthcare leaders invest billions of dollars in healthcare information technologies (IT) to improve the accessibility, affordability and quality of healthcare for their citizens, hospital datacenters may not be ready for the demand that more patients and digital information will create, according to a survey of hospital IT executives at small and medium hospitals in the U.S., U.K., Canada, China, France and Germany conducted by the HIMSS Analytics, sponsored by Dell.
System C has been named one of the top 100 companies to work for in the UK. The software and services company won a place in the 2010 Sunday Times Best 100 Companies to Work For survey, published in the Sunday Times this weekend.
Agfa HealthCare, the leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, has installed the United Kingdom's first IMPAX 6.4 Picture Archiving and Communications System at the Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth in London.
Google announces an addition to Google Labs - the Public Data Explorer. The purpose of the new tool, Google says on the new lab's page, "The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate.
The eHealth landscape offers both opportunities and barriers to policy makers in the EU 27 member states which are not just about technical issues of interoperability and data security and confidentiality.
Essex County Council has reported on the success of its free Telecare Home Safety Service, which is enabling elderly people in Essex to live safely and independently in their own homes. The service, which has already benefitted over 2500 residents aged 80 and over in the last 10 months, is free to sign up to until the 31st of March 2010*.
14-16 April 2010, Luxembourg.
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, has expanded its agreement with the Basque Healthcare Service's Osakidetza facilities in Spain to extend its IMPAX Picture and Archiving and Communications System (PACS) to a further 15 sites, in addition to the 28 facilities it currently serves.