The Helios group of hospitals recently introduced a new scheme for a unified, comparable set of indicators to describe the most important services and quality parameters in hospitals. The model is a trend-setting step towards greater transparency - with less administrative effort.
Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, boasts the country's third-largest hospital. East-Tallinn Central Hospital (ETCH) has 587 beds, 26,000 inpatients and last year recorded 425,000 outpatient visits. It dates from 1785 when the former Tallinn Central began to operate as a town hospital. However, in 2001, four hospitals and two polyclinics were merged to form ETCH.
As MRSA affects about 300,000 patients and costs UK £1 billion annually, the country's public services union demands the return of in-house cleaners. Report: Peter Howieson
TopLine, the new range of bedpan washers/disinfectors from Meiko set new standards.
UK - Dialysis patients are exposed to 50 times more mains water than well people. The new 33-bed renal dialysis ward at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, uses at least 1,000 litres of water per hour from the mains water supply. To ensure constant flow - and water purity for patients - the ward has installed a water treatment system
One of world's leading manufacturers of professional dictation systems, Grundig Business Systems, has launched a new mobile dictation machine — the Digta 415.
Discovery of cell receptor CCR5 might help tackle TB.
Professor Erich Reinhardt (below), President and CEO of Siemens Medical Solutions and member of the Board of Management of Siemens AG, discusses the company's current and future strategies.
„Through its engagement in various initiatives and publications ZVEI (the German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association) consistently underlines the great potential of IT in the healthcare system — in Germany and Europe. “It's a milestone in German healthcare modernisation within a European context”, says ZVEI
Launched in 2005, and introduced to a broader healthcare public at the 2006 European Congress of Radiology (ECR), Agfa Healthcare Consulting is now to be introduced to potential customers beyond Europe - at this year's RSNA in Chicago.
A new, compact, fully portable Patient Warming System, is '..the most efficient, non-invasive method of temperature control currently available'
It kills more children than any other illness. According to UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) that includes AIDS, malaria and measles combined - yet pneumonia remains a forgotten disease. A report published by the two organisations aims to provoke action to reduce child mortality from pneumonia.
Tours company opens a medical centre within a centre of excellence
The Saint Ann Hospital, in Brno, is about to commence a joint project with the renowned Mayo Clinic, based in Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Spanish event surprised with a number of high-profile IT projects.
New to MEDICA this year is MLR, whose automated guided vehicles (AGV) have been radically modified transport containers in hospitals.
A new range of hospital beds, developed with both the needs of patients and nursing staff in mind, meets the highest expectations of functionality and design.
While bringing friends and loved ones flowers can cheer them up, dealing with the vases can cause headaches for care professionals.
The new Nextim system, eXimia NBS is a novel brain stimulation technology which provides individual measures of the health and functional capacity of the central nervous system, as well as of brain reactions to targeted magnetic pulses. Thanks to its advanced technology and proven clinical performance, the NBS system helps medical professionals to focus on the issues that matter the most - and to…
New magazine should progress IT for healthcare.
The UK Health Minister has set out key details of what patients and the public can expect from the NHS Care Records Service.
The 6th Swiss eHealthcare Congress gave an overview about the latest topics concerning eHealth.
High-profile IT projects aimed at increasing efficiency and improving patient care.
Rapidly changing conditions which affect patient throughput, require very quick reactions from hospital management.
The DICOM Attribute Converter is a software module that solves even complex communication problems.