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Marco Schiavottiello has recibido el premio Dennis Hill 2010 de la IET por su trabajo “iCHEST: Desarrollo de una aplicación web para radiografía de tórax””El Premio Dennis Hill reconoce un trabajo extraordinario en el campo de la teconología de la salud. Se le otorga anualmente a un estudiante de Master.El premio es en memoria del Profesor Dennis Hill. El premio se otorga anualmente a un estudiante de Master quien durante el año anterior presenta la mejor disertación de Master en el campo de las tecnologías de la salud. El objetivo del premio es fomentar y recompensar la excelencia en dicho campo de estudio.” (Fuente).En Kanteron Systems estamos muy orgullosos de este premio y felicitamos de corazón a Marco.

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.

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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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!

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.

Many hospitals are considering vendor-neutral solutions for archiving and accessing medical images to avoid being locked into closed, proprietary software, according the report “In Enterprise Imaging: A Vendor Reality Check” from market research firm KLAS.The study found that while many providers are looking to their PACS vendor as a likely enterprise imaging partner, they also recognize the potential pitfalls of getting locked into a proprietary solution that may not translate well from one department to another.”A number of hospitals are beginning to take ownership of their medical images by building PACS-neutral archives and storage management layers,” Brown said. “This approach allows the PACS to simply become a physician-friendly viewing and interaction layer that can be upgraded or replaced without the typically painful migration.”Kanteron Systems offer one of the most robust, interoperable, and high-performance vendor-neutral PACS in the market.

A publication from ABI Research examines wireless telehealth and forecasts that 15 million systems will be in use–mainly in North America–by early in 2012. Source.

La oportunidad del software libre.Capacidades, derechos e innovación es el documento publicado por la EOI (Escuela de Negocios del MIyC Español) en el que se concluye que “Con el respaldo adecuado, el software libre supone claros avances en la libertades individuales y en los derechos digitales, así como en el tejido productivo, en la innovación industrial y en la competitividad empresarial, Las inversiones públicas serán más rentables y más convincentes las políticas de cooperación”.

The Indianapolis Star reports that Tuesday June 2nd, Methodist Hospital turned away patients in ambulances, for the first time in its 100-plus history. Why? Because the electronic health records (EHR) system had gone down the prior afternoon — due to a power surge — and the backlog of paperwork was no longer tolerable.Kanteron Systems offers high-availability HIS and EHR technology, with off-site and disaster recovery options.

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