Supporting in- and off-Hospital Patient Management Using a Web-based Integrated Software Platform.

In this paper, a Web-based software platform appropriately designed to support the continuity of health care information and management for both in and out of hospital care is presented. The system has some additional features as it is the formation of continuity of care records and the transmission of referral letters with a semantically annotated web service. The platform's Web-orientation provides significant advantages, allowing for easily accomplished remote access.

50 years LASERS: in vitro diagnostics, clinical applications and perspectives.

1960 Theodore Maiman built the first Ruby-LASER, starting-point for half a century of R&D on Biomedical LASER continuous improvement. The purpose of this paper is to contribute a review of the often disregarded, however, extremely important Industrial Property documents of LASER-based in vitro Diagnostics devices. It is an attempt to sketch-out the patent-trail leading towards the modern Biomedical Laboratory and to offer an introduction to the employment of "exotic" systems, such as the Free Electron LASER (FEL), that are expected to focus on the fundamental processes of life, following chemical reactions and biological processes as they happen, on unprecedented time and size scales.

Software supporting planning, quality assurance, accreditation and operation of interdisciplinary healthcare professional education.

The purpose of the present study was the development of software supporting Planning, Quality Assurance, Accreditation, and Operation of interdisciplinary Healthcare Professional Education. The form of the tool-kit is that of a secure website including fourteen principal screens, corresponding to the main aspects of the course under evaluation.

A comprehensive training approach for biomedical engineers in biochemistry and in vitro diagnostics technology.

The purpose of this paper is to review 20 years (1987-2007) of experience in training young Biomedical Engineers in Biochemistry and in vitro Diagnostics (IVD) Technology. This encountering has resulted in the gradual formation of a comprehensive training package that includes lectures and laboratory practicals, supported by both, traditional and on-line digital means, such as lecture-notes, slides, videos, demos and equipment simulations. Further, this course is maintained up to date by several research and development activities that offer partially feed back to the course and enrich its contents with custom developed devices, methods and application software.

Software development for the estimation of the mean DRGs related treatment cost.

The purpose of the present study was the development and the initial implementation of a Medical Procedure Resources-Allocation and Cost-Capturing Software for the Estimation of the Mean DRGs associated Treatment Cost. The system provides means for the acquisition of health-care cost related data, based upon the actual Greek conditions, and includes Medical Equipment, Reagents, Consumables and Disposable Materials, Drugs, Man Power, Building Leasing and Infrastructure Maintenance expenditures, as the most important cost-components. The developed system was tested in the Operating Rooms (OR) and the Intensive Care Units (ICU), of a representative group of Hospitals.

Development of a system supporting patient supervision and treatment in contemporary home-care: status report.

The emerging amalgamation of informatics, communication technologies, and entertainment electronics in the field of Biomedical Technology combined to, first, the increase in length of the mean life expectancy, and, second, the hospitalization cost avalanche, will facilitate gradually the development of a new Hi-Tec home-care environment. We have developed a home-computer based system, addressing crucial aspects of the development of contemporary home-care that comprises of: First, the employment of low-cost commercially available components, supporting home-care patient's well-being observation, including eventually vital-signs monitoring. Second, software means for the processing, the evaluation, and the targeted transmission of the acquired health-data.