Document & Records Management
The latest move in healthcare is to apply contemporary information management techniques for not only patient records, but also patient care.
The Collaborative Health Informatics Centre (CHIC) is a national not-for-profit organisation whose focus is to improve patient care and business processes in the health sector through the application of appropriate information technologies.
The 1999 Health Informatics Conference aims to bring together vendors and health professionals to share insights about the special information requirements of the health sector.
As well as the needs of the doctor, HIC 99 is taking the opportunity to explore the relationship between information management and specific groups of the healthcare profession.
IDM interviews Professor of Health Informatics at the University College London, David Ingram, who has devoted his career to developing information management strategies for the health sector.
The Queensland Government has signed a $20 million contract with global technology firm Agfa-Geveart Limited to install state of the art radiology imaging and communications technology in Brisbane tertiary hospitals over the next three years.
With the support of a wireless network, Warrigal Private Hospital, Victoria, is delivering efficient, accurate, and timely care direct to the bedside.
Microsoft is laying down the ground rules for intranet collaboration in the new millenium.
The release of Office 2000 signals Microsoft's gradual push for a beach head in the knowledge management arena, but the main guns are still to be fired.
A new report from AIIM reveals that the document technologies market will grow to $US41.6 billion by 2003.
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