On the one hand Web services are gaining increasing attention. A lot of standardization has improved their stability and range of application. Composition and coordination techniques for Web services enable an application integration effort beyond loosely coupled systems. On the other hand medical e-services are covered by the DICOM and HL7 communication protocols and profiled by the IHE (Integ...

Overall, our view of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is too constrained and limits services that could be provided. Some time ago, a friend remarked that EMS was unrelated to Disaster Medicine and, in fact, advised that the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) and this journal (PDM) needed to concentrate either on Disaster Medicine OR EMS. More recently, this same frie...

to either of the others, or wherever they were required,(1) such transfers have, for nearly a century past, rarely been made. The names of the officers in these three Services were combined in one list, for the first time, in the Indian Army List of 1st October 1906. But they still remain on separate lists for promotion, lo these three Services, thirteen years ago, was added a fourth, the junio...

Failing emergency medical services To the Editor: I refer to the scientific letter entitled ‘Emergency centres lack defibrillator knowledge’.1 I am a recently retired UK accident and emergency consultant who is now attempting to plough back knowledge gained in the discipline of emergency medicine (EM) and trauma to peripheral hospitals in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) under the umbre...

Emergency medical services (EMS) bring the practice of emergency medicine directly to the homes of patients. Physician guidance of system development and provider practice can enhance the quality of care. This article provides an overview of issues in the development of EMS system oversight in the United States in general, and in Rhode Island.

a comparative study on patient satisfaction with hospital services in amol     nazari r* [1] , babaalipour mouziraji f [2] , sharif nia sh [3] , amini j [4] , akbari s [5]     received: 5 april, 2011 accepted: 19may, 2011    abstract:  background & aims: patient satisfaction is one of the main indicators for measuring effectiveness of health system. patient satisfaction in different areas is in...