Geneva - Inadequate staffing is reaching crisis levels in all regions, according to the International Council of Nurses (ICN). Among studies reviewed, one showed that an increased workload from four to six surgical patients resulted in a 14% increase in the chance of a patient in that nurse's care dying within 30 days of admission.
Bologna, Italy - With 670 exhibitors - 595 domestic and 78 international companies from 18 countries as well as 344 represented companies from 36 countries - and close to 28,000 visitors, the medical event Exposanita was, once again, a huge success.
Berlin, Germany - The three-month university hospital doctors` strike was nearing its end at the time of EH going to press.
According to Federal Office statistics around 30,000 Germans die annually due to nosocomial infections.
Even hospital curtains could attract and harbour germs.
In an effort to optimise efficiency and patient service, Spain's Castilla-La Mancha region and the Paris Hospital network AP-HP have become the first in Europe to introduce speech recognition to thousands of physicians and transcribers on a regional level.
Nexus AG, which develops and markets healthcare IT-solutions, supporting an integrated approach for the exchange of data between general practitioners, hospitals and rehabilitation clinics, has acquired 100% of the shares of iSOFT Switzerland GmbH, which produces administrative IT-solutions (the HOSPIS brand) for Swiss healthcare.
During an EH interview, Professor Stefan Osswald MD described this complex system and its future potential
For a number of years, both the Communications and Medical Solutions Groups of Siemens AG and the Bamberg-based firm DOCexpert Computer GmbH have been actively involved in creating IT-based end-to-end solutions for medical practices, medical care centres, clinics and integrated care networks.
In this timely article Karen Dente highlights the consequences of failing to see the design and provision of health and social care as essentially a system. It has long been understood that adverse incidents within health and social care are rarely to be laid at the feet of individuals alone.
In a widely publicised, groundbreaking report titled 'To Err is Human', issued in 1999 by the Institute of Medicine in the United States, the magnitude of unwanted deaths resulting from medical errors inside the hospital was uncovered. Since then this has achieved much media attention.
Analysing needs and layout a suitable technique: This is the secret of success of Danube International.
It occupies approximately the same space as one to three atoms.
In 2002-2003 around 116,000 incidents of abuse were recorded in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
Abbakus GmbH, a new company focused on running hospitals and "hotel" wards in line with DRG requirements, has been founded by Careoffice GmbH & Co. KG, of Germany, and the Finnish company Hospitel Ab oy.
A number of hospitalised patients need little nursing.
Ever since the American automats that brought about fast food living were reduced in size, people have become used to picking up a quick bite.
The enhanced availability of information and communication via the internet, are leading to a growing international trade in healthcare services.
Now there are even garments for hospital visitors - a good thing, in view of MRSA and other pathogens.
If you ever thought that quality topics and certification issues might be boring, stressful or even harmful for any organisation, being in Frankfurt for this meeting (29 October) would have taught you otherwise.
Health organisations and governments should seek solutions beyond their own borders.
The organisers of Medica, the world's largest medical trade fair have reported that 137,000 visitors from around 100 countries attended these events in November.
The Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (Masarykúv onkologick´y ústav - MOÚ) in is unique in the Czech Republic, for it covers all aspects of cancer care, provides medical training plus public health education, and participates in research. Around 180,000 outpatients and about 7,000 in-patients are treated annually. By Pavel Andres MD, Deputy Director of Medical Preventive Care at the Masaryk…
The destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina was felt so strongly at HIMSS '06, the annual meeting of North America's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, which drew over 24,500 healthcare IT professionals and hospital executives to San Diego in February, that the Society decided to hold its 2007 meeting in New Orleans to bring dollars to the city's damaged economy.
Intel and Microsoft are developing pilot networks to link hospitals and healthcare participants.