Reports from the field
End user presentations at the Philips partner event provided insight into industrial grade speech recognition deployments in hospitals.
3M integrates SpeechMagic
3M Health Information Systems' document creation products will soon be “powered by SpeechMagic”, to provide customers with leading-edge documentation solutions that bring simplicity to the complex process of medical reporting.
Spotlight on patient safety
Medical errors occur in any part of the treatment process and typically involve the wrong medication, improper treatment, or incorrect or delayed test results. At its annual partner meeting in Berlin Philips reinforced its commitment to use its leading global position in healthcare speech recognition to drive technology advancements towards reducing medical errors and improving patient safety…
Dictation on the move
To increase speech processing potential for heavy dictation users, Grundig Business Systems GmbH, of Bayreuth, Germany, recently introduced its first mobile dictation recorder with colour display and Soft Touch Composite.
PEDS - PROVOTEC Economical Digital System
Provotec GmbH & Co. KG, based in Espelkamp, Germany, reports that its Prognost XPE table series is being sold in the USA and internationally.
USP Hospitales de Marbella
USP Hospitales is a prominent Spanish hospital group with a network of 31 facilities in Spanish cities. The group also owns a 25% share in Hospitais Privados de Portugal, the hospital affiliate of the Portuguese bank Caixa Geral de Depositos. USP Hospitales acts as a consultant for the bank's six hospitals in Lisbon, Oporto, Sanghalos, Lagos and Faro. USP Hospitales recently founded the company…
Management Teams
Changes in the healthcare sector are presenting increasingly difficult challenges to European hospitals, but, according to the hospital chain Ategris GmbH, based in Mülheim/Oberhausen, these pressures ' might present a chance to open up encrusted structures'. The company reports that it ' embraces Christian values while optimising existing hospital structures' and has worked on a new model…
UK update
Juggling the NHS accounts?
Revised international accreditation standards for hospitals
The Joint Commission International (JCI) has produced a revised set of international accreditation standards for hospitals. Initiated in 1997, the JCI developed out of a need seen by the international community to have standards of care to assure quality and safety for patients. "When these standards were first devised, organisations around the world were trying to apply the US domestic standards…
A joint venture for Spain and Portugal
Grupo Hospitalario Quirón and José de Mello Saúde are sharing a joint venture that aims to create a reference private healthcare group in the Iberic Market.
Siemens receives approval for acquisition of Dade Behring by European Commission
The deal is perfect: The European Commission gave the ok for Siemens´ plans to acquire the U.S. based laboratory diagnostic company Dade Behring Holdings, Inc.. Due to that deal, Siemens will secure its leadership position in the attractive and growing market of laboratory diagnostics.
Wisdom
Stupid people always make the same mistakes, intelligent people learn from their own mistakes; wise people observe others and learn from them. Global player, Metsä Tissue has made this pearl of wisdom their own and analysed the market in full including competitors and users.
Setting international standards for TB care
By Professor Giovanni Battista Migliori MD, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Control of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases.
Boost to global health tourism predicted
Accouncement - New international website could link your hospital with potential patients worldwide.
Hospital security
An international study to evaluate radio-frequency identification as a hospital risk management tool in medical care.
Acquisition
Recently, as a result of the acquisition of Kodak's Health Group by Onex Corporation, Carestream Health Inc. began operations as one of the world's leading independent health imaging and IT solutions companies. We asked Kevin J Hobert, CEO of Carestream Health, about this and its effects on his company's operations
Most DICOM-CDs do not meet standards
Germany - 74% of DICOM-CDs from 87 different manufacturers do not comply with current standards, according to a joint study by OFFIS (Oldenburger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsinstitut für Informatik-Werkzeuge und -Systeme) and the Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft (DRG), presented at the recent 9th HIS-RIS-PACS and DICOM Meeting*.
Needle-free drug delivery device scoops top award
The Glide Solid Dose Injector (SDI), the needle-free drug delivery system that injects drugs in solid dosage form into the skin, has contributed to its manufacturer, Glide Pharma, winning the Best Business Award at the 2007 Medical Futures Innovation Awards.
The World of Health IT
Austria - Following the first World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition last year, the organisers have decided that the 2007 meeting (22-25 October) will 'move on from exploring fact-based IT solutions to examining health IT in the wider context of health delivery'.
Moscow's 'Medical Fair'
The key event of the year 2007 September 19-22, 2007 Moscow, Manezh Exhibition Center
EHFG celebrates 10th anniversary
In 1998, during Austria's first EU presidency, Professor Günther Leiner founded the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG). From 3-6 October this year, the Forum will celebrate its 10th anniversary. Our Austria correspondent Hans-Christian Pruszinsky asked Dr Leiner about the value and role of this organisation in Europe today.
University hospital founds international consultancy
Germany - The Hamburg-Eppendorf University Medical Centre (UKE) has founded a consultancy in a joint venture with SOLVE Consulting Managementberatung GmbH and Hellman Worldwide Logistics GmbH & Co. KG.
Apologies instead of condolences
Terrible mistake made by a dutch hospital.
Medical Technologies Map of European Regions and Clusters
MediMap is an internet portal that evolved from an EU project with partners in eight countries.
206 tips to save money
Austria - 206 tips for administrative reforms, given by the Austrian Court of Audit to the finance in August, have created a bit of a stir. Almost half of the envisaged total savings potential of €4-5 billion is expected to result from a reform of the healthcare sector.
