Article • Dutch healthcare
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Dutch healthcare is internationally viewed as high level. However, the cost of care continues to rise, despite all the cuts.
Article • Education
The UK will train more doctors
The British government has pledged to increase the number of places available at United Kingdom medical schools by 25 per cent by 2018 in a bid to boost the number of home-grown doctors within the National Health Service (NHS).
News • blood bank refrigerators
Thermo Fisher Scientific Earns First U.S. EPA ENERGY STAR Certification
Clinicians working across blood banking and transfusion applications can now reduce the environmental footprint of their operations by selecting certified energy-efficient refrigerators that have received a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ENERGY STAR label.
News • Faster Throughput
Automation and the Future of Microbiology Laboratories
When it comes to automation, clinical microbiology has for many years lagged behind other laboratory disciplines. Robotics and computer processing revolutionized chemistry and hematology instruments decades ago. Meanwhile, clinical microbiologists continue to open specimen containers by hand and grow bacteria using methods familiar to microbiology’s founding fathers from the 19th century.
News • Bad Health Years
Longer Life, Healthier Life?
The average human being is living longer than ever before. Nearly every country on the planet has seen an increase in life expectancy since the beginning of the 21st century. But though we are living longer, not all of us are living healthier. Health Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE), or healthy life expectancy, is a metric used by the World Health Organization to measure the number of years a…
News • Market Overview
Endoscopy Devices Market to Reach $40,854 Million, Globally, by 2022
Endoscopy Devices Market Report, published by Allied Market Research, forecasts that the global market is expected to garner $40,854 million by 2022 from $27,273 million in 2015, registering a CAGR of 5.7% during the period 2016 to 2022. The flexible endoscopes are expected to dominate the global endoscopy devices market. North America is projected to continue its lead, accounting for more than…
Article • Cooperation
Big firms forge a new partnership
An alliance between Siemens Healthineers and IBM Watson Health aims to support service providers in the healthcare system, such as hospitals, health networks and other providers.
Article • Welcome
ECR focuses on youth, education and radiographers
‘Youth’ is the central theme of this year’s ECR. More than 25,000 delegates from over 100 countries are expected for the 29th conference at the Vienna’s Austria Centre to take part in the annual meeting that promotes science and innovation.
News • EPF CAMPAIGN
Universal Health Coverage on access to healthcare: KICK-OFF MEETING 27/02.
The EPF campaign on Universal Health Coverage will be officially presented in the European Parliament on the 27th of February. Co-hosted by MEPs Kateřina Konečná (GUE/NGL, Czech Republic) and Andrey Kovatchev (EPP, Bulgaria), the event will be the opportunity to identify concrete steps towards universal access to healthcare. #Access2030.
News • Merger
Totoku will finally convert to JVC
A strong brand for a wide range of medical applications. In 2013, JVC Kenwood corporation merged with the monitor and display manufacturer Totoku. The expected synergies in the development and distribution of joint solutions and Totoku products are now reborn with JVC brand.
News • NHS
Is it time for a tax to fund the NHS?
Is it time for a dedicated (hypothecated) tax to fund the NHS, asks The BMJ in a debate article? A dedicated tax is the only way that we can be sure the government is reflecting public wishes, argues Richard Layard, emeritus professor at the London School of Economics.
News • Smoke-free NHS
Seeing the same GP associated with fewer hospital admissions
Older patients who see the same general practitioner over time experience fewer avoidable admissions to hospital for certain conditions, finds a study published by The BMJ today.
Article • Fragile state
Many units themselves need emergency care
Germany’s hospital emergency departments run up a loss of more than one billion euros every year. According to Dr Thomas Fleischmann, specialist in the reorganisation of emergency departments, care for emergency patients rakes up a loss of about one billion euros every year.
Interview • Catalan Health Minister’s strategy
Big Data, de-privatisation and independence
Catalonia, Spain’s richest region, is launching one of the largest Big Data healthcare projects in Europe, after scrapping a polemic plan that would have enabled patient data to be shared with private for-profit companies.
News • Drugs
The war on drugs causes massive human rights violations
Financial ties between researchers and companies that make the drugs they are studying are independently associated with positive trial results, suggesting bias in the evidence base, concludes a study published by The BMJ today.
Article • NHS needs urgent treatment
Hospital deficits hit £2.45 billion
A leading British medical organisation has issued a hard-hitting report that paints ‘a grim picture’ of the National Health Service (NHS).
Article • Healthcare standards
Brexit: Uncertainty in every question
The British decision to leave the European Union was and still is constantly discussed. Thinking about the consequences leaves more open questions than answers.
News • Market
JADAK to acquire ThingMagic RFID
JADAK LLC, announced that it has acquired the assets of ThingMagic (formerly a Division of Trimble). ThingMagic, based in Woburn, Massachusetts, provides Ultra High Frequency (UHF) RFID Reader Modules and Finished RFID Solutions to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for a wide range of applications, including in the medical, retail, logistics, and airline industries.
News • Announcement
International Conference on 3D Printing in Medicine
At the 2nd International Conference on 3D Printing in Medicine from May 19-20, 2017 in Mainz, Germany, the focus is on innovative deployment options for the 3D print process in medicine. Today already, 3D printing is being applied in virtually all medical disciplines.
Sponsored • Hygiene
Coatings defeat pathogens
Nosocomial infections are dangerous - sometimes having grave consequences.
News • Multidrug-resistant TB
Another facet to the migration crisis in Europe
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is widespread globally, with an estimated 480,000 cases in 2014.Although rare in European countries, the risks posed by the current migrant crisis makes MDR-TB an important and urgent public health priority.
News • MedTech Europe
Medical technologies in EU become one new single entity
EDMA and Eucomed members have voted to dissolve their respective European associations. A new MedTech Europe single entity has been created, representing the European medical technology sector, from diagnosis to cure. The new MedTech Europe is operating immediately.
News • European Commission
Proposal on endocrine-disrupting chemicals fails to protect public
The Endocrine Society expressed disappointment in the European Commission's revised proposal on defining and identifying endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), citing unnecessarily narrow criteria for identifying EDCs that will make it nearly impossible for scientists to meet the unrealistically high burden of proof and protect the public from dangerous chemicals.
News • Infections
Europe must do more to stop drug-resistant ‘superbugs’
On European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD), the European Public Health Alliance and the European Patients Forum jointly call on the European Commission and national governments to step up the fight against drug-resistant infections in the follow-up EU Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance announced for 2017. The EU has a vital role to play in protecting health security in Europe and empowering…
Article • Management
Big Data power will improve healthcare
Big Data sits at the heart of addressing the challenges that will lead to a more sustainable health and social care system. Hospitals and health systems must embrace a Big Data approach if they are to deliver better care for patients according to Dr Mark Davies, Medical Director of healthcare analytics company MedeAnalytics. Report: Mark Nicholls