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Mr. Marco Schiavottiello has been awarded the IET 2010 Dennis Hill Award for his work on “iCHEST: Development of a Web Application for Chest Radiography””The Dennis Hill Award recognises outstanding work in the field of healthcare technologies.  It is awarded annually to a student on a taught MSc programme. This award is presented in memory of Professor Dennis Hill, a pioneering researcher and practitioner in many areas of endeavour, particularly in relation to anaesthesia and intensive care.The prize is awarded annually to the student on a taught MSc programme who has, during the past year, submitted the best MSc project dissertation in the general field of healthcare technologies and cognate subjects (including biomedical engineering and health informatics). The purpose of the prize is to encourage and reward excellence in the field of study.” (Source).In Kanteron Systems we are very proud of this award and we’d like to congratulate Marco.

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Kanteron Systemshas been chosen as first finalist in the National Entrepreneur of the Year Award - Company with the biggest growth potential.News published in:

• Centro Europeo de Empresas Innovadoras (CEEI)
• La Razón
• Valencia Plaza
• Extremadura al Día
• Emprendedores.es
• Emprendedor XXI
• Dia de la persona emprendedora
• Enisa
• Ejecutivos.es
• La Caixa
• VIT Salud
• Economía de Hoy

Kanteron Systems has won the Entrepreneur of the Year Award - Company with the biggest growth potential - Comunidad Valenciana, awarded by Enisa and La Caixa.Published by:

• Emprendedor XXI
• El País
• Ceticc
• CEEI

The US federal government’s current shift to sharing health information using open-source technology could potentially reduce costs and time for patients and the government, according to a panel discussion of health IT experts who gathered Oct. 30 in Washington, D.C., which sought to frame the progress of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) and how the federally-developed CONNECT system (an open-source implementation of the NHIN specifications that enables federal agencies and healthcare providers to exchange patient information) promotes the adoption and use of standards-based health IT systems while streamlining information, ideas and reducing costs.

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Postmortem CT is a good alternative for a refused autopsy, as well as a valuable adjunct for a standard autopsy, because it detects injuries that may be overlooked during the examination, according to a review in this month’s issue of European Radiology by Mark Scholing, MD, from the trauma unit and department of surgery at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam.

Currently being reported and the solution shared, Kanteron’s programmers, while developing new functionalities for Kanteron’s HIS (Hospital Information Systems) discovered a bug in SQL MacOSX by which the database would randomly (upon not detecting activity for an undetermined period of time) shutdown.After a few days of hard work, a solution has been discovered, and is now being shared with the rest of the community.Long live Open Source and Free Software!

Thomson Reuters reported that the profit margin of U.S. hospitals was 3.1 % in the 3rd quarter of 2009, up from 0.17 % in the 3rd quarter of 2008. The increase in profit margin applied to all classes of hospitals, including small, medium and large community hospitals, as well as teaching hospitals and major academic medical centers.Total hospital margins improved in the 1st quarter, with about 30 % of hospitals operating in the red–a big improvement over the 50 % reported in the 3rd quarter. Source.

Source. Radiologists’ workloads grew substantially in the past few years, with procedures increasing 7 % and physician work relative value units (RVUs) increasing 10 % from 2002-2003 to 2006-2007, according to research published in this month’s Radiology by Mythreyi Bhargavan, PhD, from the research department at the American College of Radiology (ACR) and the department of radiology and radiological science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and colleagues.In 2006-2007, the researchers reported that the average annual workload per FTE radiologist was 14,900 procedures, an increase of 7 % since 2002-2003 and 34 % since 1991-1992. Annual RVUs per FTE radiologist were 10,200, an increase of 10 % since 2002-2003 and 70.3 % since 1991-1992.Bhargavan and colleagues found that academic practices performed about 1/3 fewer procedures per FTE radiologist than others. In most types of practice, radiologists in a 75th-percentile practice performed at least 65 % more procedures annually than radiologists in a 25th-percentile practice. The researchers said that their regression analysis showed that practices that used external off-hours teleradiology services performed 27 % more procedures than otherwise similar practices that did not use these services. Workload varied substantially among similar practices.The authors noted that radiologists have been able to increase their workload by such large amounts while keeping their annual work hours relatively fixed through the use of new technology, “whether that technology is embodied in equipment and software–for example, in PACS and 3D reconstruction–or in organizational arrangements, such as the use of external off-hours teleradiology services.”Kanteron Systems is an experienced Healthcare IT company supplying a broad range of software solutions, from PACS and 3D reconstruction workstations, to teleradiology.