The Critical Role of Integrated Patient Information in the Delivery of High Quality Healthcare
dbMotion is a premier provider of healthcare information integration software that facilitates interoperability and health information exchange (HIE) for health information networks and integrated healthcare delivery systems. The service oriented architecture (SOA) based dbMotion™ Solution gives caregivers and information systems secure access to an integrated patient record composed from the patient's medical data maintained at facilities that are otherwise unconnected or have no common technology through which to share data, without replacement of existing information systems.
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Healthy Ageing Brochure
Healthy ageing is not just about prolonging life. It is about promoting the necessary means to enable older people to continue to participate in society and to cope with daily life. It concerns learning, the exchange of good practice and the development of strategies and policies designed to promote older people's individual well being and personal growth. This brochure is about the potential for the development of health promotion and preventative measures for older people.
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Making the Clinical Process Safe and Efficient Using RFID in Healthcare
The Fondazione Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (the Italian National Cancer Institute) in Milan can be considered a forerunner in the usage of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in the European healthcare sector, as it is moving towards this technology in many clinical areas. The Istituto had a need for greater efficiency in the management of the transfusion process, as it had no information system for the detailed monitoring and control of the process; the transfusion service did not have instant access to all the necessary information and for some procedures operators only have access to hardcopy aids.
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Chronic Care at the Crossroads White Paper
The World Health Organization reports that chronic disease is responsible for 60% of all deaths worldwide. In the UK, 17.5 million people are living with chronic illness, and among people over 75 years of age, three-quarters have at least one chronic disease. Chronic illness is challenging for patients because they often have to make significant changes in their social and family relationships while dealing with physical pain, prolonged medical treatment, psychological distress and growing restrictions on their daily activities. As a result, their quality of life is significantly reduced.
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Assessing Risk for Health Care IT Organizations
Health care providers are adopting health care information technology (IT) to increase productivity, profitability, and the quality of patient care delivery. Adoption of health care IT will continue to expand around the globe, resulting in new challenges for the IT organization. Health care departments will demand that clinical and business systems be made resistant to interruption and unauthorized access.
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1st Annual HIMSS EMEA Leadership Survey
The Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey has a strong tradition of reporting on the opinions of information technology (IT) executives from healthcare provider organisations across the U.S. regarding the use of IT in their organisations. For the first time, HIMSS EMEA is turning this same focus across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, reporting on the information communications and technology (ICT) issues that are relevant to senior healthcare management in this region.
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Accelerating the Development of the eHealth Market in Europe
This report on lead market opportunities for eHealth proposes actions aiming at accelerating the development of the European eHealth market, increasing economic benefits and simultaneously developing the quality of health products and services. The prospective return on investment of eHealth is relatively high when compared to the costs inherent in the health sector.
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dbMotion is a premier provider of healthcare information integration software that facilitates interoperability and health information exchange (HIE) for health information networks and integrated healthcare delivery systems. The service oriented architecture (SOA) based dbMotion™ Solution gives caregivers and information systems secure access to an integrated patient record composed from the patient's medical data maintained at facilities that are otherwise unconnected or have no common technology through which to share data, without replacement of existing information systems. 
Healthy ageing is not just about prolonging life. It is about promoting the necessary means to enable older people to continue to participate in society and to cope with daily life. It concerns learning, the exchange of good practice and the development of strategies and policies designed to promote older people's individual well being and personal growth. This brochure is about the potential for the development of health promotion and preventative measures for older people. 
The Fondazione Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (the Italian National Cancer Institute) in Milan can be considered a forerunner in the usage of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in the European healthcare sector, as it is moving towards this technology in many clinical areas. The Istituto had a need for greater efficiency in the management of the transfusion process, as it had no information system for the detailed monitoring and control of the process; the transfusion service did not have instant access to all the necessary information and for some procedures operators only have access to hardcopy aids. 
The World Health Organization reports that chronic disease is responsible for 60% of all deaths worldwide. In the UK, 17.5 million people are living with chronic illness, and among people over 75 years of age, three-quarters have at least one chronic disease. Chronic illness is challenging for patients because they often have to make significant changes in their social and family relationships while dealing with physical pain, prolonged medical treatment, psychological distress and growing restrictions on their daily activities. As a result, their quality of life is significantly reduced. 
Health care providers are adopting health care information technology (IT) to increase productivity, profitability, and the quality of patient care delivery. Adoption of health care IT will continue to expand around the globe, resulting in new challenges for the IT organization. Health care departments will demand that clinical and business systems be made resistant to interruption and unauthorized access. 
The Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey has a strong tradition of reporting on the opinions of information technology (IT) executives from healthcare provider organisations across the U.S. regarding the use of IT in their organisations. For the first time, HIMSS EMEA is turning this same focus across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, reporting on the information communications and technology (ICT) issues that are relevant to senior healthcare management in this region. 
This report on lead market opportunities for eHealth proposes actions aiming at accelerating the development of the European eHealth market, increasing economic benefits and simultaneously developing the quality of health products and services. The prospective return on investment of eHealth is relatively high when compared to the costs inherent in the health sector. 