How would you choose to die?

Everyone will eventually die, yet we spend billions on healthcare for patients to delay the inevitable. Death is no longer a brief process, but a lengthy and painful medically aided struggle.

PAALiativ project to develop technology for improving healthcare delivery at home Germany

ePractice.eu, 20 July 2010. Country Germany; Domain eHealth; Topic Continuity of care, Decision support systems, Health risk management, Homecare & Telecare Services, ICT and lifestyle management, ICT for patient safety, Policy, Telemedicine services, Wearable/Portable Systems for Health monitoring.

eHealth portal now online France

ePractice.eu, 8 July 2010. Country France; Domain eHealth; Topic Electronic health records, Health portals, Personal Health Systems, Policy, Telemedicine services.

‘ICT for Health’ Project website online Europe

ICT for Health, 21 June 2010

Lab Tests Online portal provides information on clinical laboratory tests Greece

ePractice.eu, 25 June 2010. Country Greece; Domain eHealth; Topic Decision support systems, Health portals, ICT for disease prevention and health promotion, Personal Health Systems, Policy, Regional/national Health Information Networks.

Queensland Health to change payroll system

QUEENSLAND Health workers will be paid under a local pay model from September as the government struggles to fix its sick payroll system.

Health payroll ‘not properly tested’

QUEENSLAND Health’s bungled new payroll system was not properly tested and was rolled out without a back-up plan, an Auditor-General’s report says.

e-Channels could generate major NHS savings UK

Using electronic channels could save the health service organisations hundred of millions of pounds, according to speakers at the NHS Confederation conference. Kable, Thursday 24 June 2010.

Final report of EC-funded study on ‘Business Models for eHealth’ issued

ePractice.eu, June 24, 2010.

States’ push led to health funding cut

A body meant to oversee hospital payments under the health reform plans is the fallout from compromises forced by the states. ?

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