The HealthCare Summit
At this year’s two-day HealthCare Summit, held in Berlin, 58 representatives of hospitals and healthcare facilities, IT specialists and consultants discussed financing, market orientation, IT solutions and telematics.
Obama plans to digitise medical records within five years
The healthcare sector has been surprisingly slow in adopting information technology when compared to other industry sectors. In the United States, health information technology (HIT) is now being considered by many involved in the re-organisation and improvement of the quality of healthcare as a powerful tool with the dual potential to save lives and reduce healthcare costs.
The Hospital IT Network
The Hospital IT Network, an online platform for vendors and buyers of hospital IT products and services, is progressing in its aim to create more transparency in the hospital IT market. The platform provides a European Vendor Directory showing company profiles, up-to-date market data and daily e-health news. It thus provides a unique tool for hospital IT vendors and buyers, such as CEOs and IT…
An English language programme within the MEDICA Congress
Every November the exhibition centre in Düsseldorf becomes a beehive of activity for four days, when 17 halls are transformed into the biggest market for medical technology worldwide. The figures speak for themselves: more than 4,300 exhibitors – including the smallest newcomers to the global giants – cover almost 120,000 square metres where they will face thousands among the 136,000…
Russian resistance to IT
The use of IT in Russian medical institutions is still low, partly due to poor funding but also to a lack of understanding among managers of its potential. Most physicians consider treatment is their duty – not IT. They prefer to use special software only for accounting and staffing policy.
Inequalities: The public health puzzle
Bettina Döbereiner reports on theories, policy strategies and current projects aired in the Berlin conference Reducing Health Inequalities. What do we really know about successful strategies?
ID wristbands and bracelets
Throughout the world, every day, thousands of hospital patients are victims of identification breakdowns and errors that resulted or could have resulted in far greater health problems for them and other outcomes for hospitals.
North America at Medica
With an expected 450+ exhibitors from the United States of America and Canada, North America will offer one of the leading foreign contingents of exhibitors represented at MEDICA 2009 - making it the strongest medical industry trade fair beyond the North American continent for USA and Canadian companies.
Russia switches from high-tech medical centres to health centres
Two years ago, "The Health", a national project, began by wanting new high-tech medical centres in various parts of the country, with 15 new hospitals to be built for cardiosurgery, orthopaedics and oncology. Only five have been built. The government has decided to switch the focus of the project to preventive medicine and to create health centres for this purpose
ESCAIDE 2009
The European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) aims to strengthen and expand the network of specialists, share scientific knowledge and experience internationally, and provide a dedicated platform for EPIET/FETP (field epidemiology training programme) fellows to present their work.
40 years of MEDICA
When we organised the first Diagnostic Week in Karlsruhe, in 1969, no one could have known that this event would one day turn into the annual highlight in the world of medicine, reflected Dr Wolfgang Albath, laboratory medicine pioneer and one of the founding fathers of MEDICA the world`s largest medical trade show. Initially planned as a moving exhibition, the show has been based in…
Making public hospitals more attractive for practitioners
Following fierce parliamentary debates last spring, the newly enacted law on Hospital reform is beginning to show concrete moves. One of these is to modify the remuneration system for doctors, in order to reinforce the attractiveness of public hospitals, which are suffering recruitment difficulties.
Vital Images and Sectra expand partnership
Vital Images, a leading provider of advanced visualization and analysis software, and Sectra, one of the world-leading IT and medical-technology companies, deepened their relationship by expanding the advanced visualization solution offered to Sectra's PACS customers.
Marcol Completes Largest Private Equity Deal in Germany in 2009
Following competition approval from the European Commission, Terence Cole and Mark Steinberg´s Marcol has completed the acquisition of MEDIAN Kliniken with its partners Advent International.
Marcol Completes Largest Private Equity Deal in Germany in 2009
Following competition approval from the European Commission, Terence Cole and Mark Steinberg's Marcol has completed the acquisition of MEDIAN Kliniken with its partners Advent International.
universal design award 2010
Der internationale universal design award 2010 geht in seine nächste - 3. Runde. Mit Unterstützung durch iF, International Forum Design, Hannover, hat der Wettbewerb das Laufen gelernt und quasi pubertär auch schon andere Ansichten als etablierte Design Wettbewerbe.
Arzt mit Familie - (k)ein Widerspruch?
Der Frauenanteil im Medizinstudium hat mittlerweile die magische Grenze von 60% überschritten. Allerdings bleiben ca. ¼ aller Akademikerinnen kinderlos. Dennoch wird die Frage der Vereinbarkeit von Ärztinnenberuf und Familie zunehmend zur alltäglichen Managementherausforderung im Krankenhaus. Gleichzeitig sind so genannte Vereinbarkeitsfaktoren wichtige Attraktoren bei der…
GE Launches $250 Million Healthymagination Fund
GE announced today the formation of the GE Healthymagination Fund, a new equity fund that will make investments in highly promising healthcare technology companies. The fund will invest in companies globally that have innovative diagnostic, IT, and life sciences technologies aligned with the strategic objectives of GE´s Healthymagination initiative. The fund will also support healthcare…
Highlight your product at MEDICA 2009!
Present your product at MEDICA 2009. Book your ad in the official show publication!
EHFG 2009: Health Policy between Ethics and Finances
The economic crisis has considerably intensified the relationship between what is ethically desirable and financially possible. This is clearly demonstrated by the numerous events devoted to the subject of “Financial Crisis and Health Policy” in the scope of the 12th European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG). Around 600 participants in the areas of politics, health administration, medicine,…
Bureaucratic obstacles put brakes on innovations
With respect to the sufficiently rapid utilisation of innovations, European healthcare systems are inadequately prepared for the pace of innovation that has now been reached, representatives of the European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry (COCIR) said at the European Health Forum Gastein.
Co-ordinated policies to tackle cancer
Cancer is a major cause of ill health within the EU, yet co-ordinated attempts to tackle it have been thin on the ground until now. At a dinner workshop at the European Health Forum Gastein*, speakers from the European CanCer Organisation (ECCO), set out their plans to tackle this anomaly and to promote collaborative action between all players in the field of oncology - patients, scientists,…
Hospital of the Future
Classic orientation around the number of beds in hospital planning will soon be obsolete in modern healthcare systems. Capacity planning must be oriented around the demand for health services and not the patients' length of stay, the authors of a new study on the necessary reforms in hospital planning demanded at the European Health Forum Gastein.
Will you survive the crisis?
Innumerable lives have been destroyed since the crash of the global financial markets last September. Fortunes vanished within hours and promising careers experienced a sudden end. But economic downturns like this not only lead to individual misfortune, but to a rise in suicides and homicides, unless governments respond with key investments in social and health protections.
Crisis threatens access to health and social services
According to leading economists, the current crises will hit the private sector heavily in 2010. Especially housholds in countries with poor social security networks will be affected heavily and are facing the danger of poverty. For healthcare systems this means an extra challenge additional to the burden of the demographic change. So the global economic crisis poses a massive threat to the…
