Antimicrobial curtains
Even hospital curtains could attract and harbour germs.
France and Spain gain the first region-wide speech recognition systems
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.
iSOFT Switzerland joins NEXUS AG
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.
Elaborate, evolving network to link radiology and cardiology
During an EH interview, Professor Stefan Osswald MD described this complex system and its future potential
Developing the electronic health card
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 response
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.
Bringing Toyota production to the healthcare industry
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.
A professional approach to laundry
Analysing needs and layout a suitable technique: This is the secret of success of Danube International.
The gigantic impact of dwarf technology
It occupies approximately the same space as one to three atoms.
Protection for lone healthcare employees
In 2002-2003 around 116,000 incidents of abuse were recorded in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
Scandinavian expertise for German hospitals
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.
The Patients Hotel
A number of hospitalised patients need little nursing.
24/7 Shopping in Hospitals
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 globalisation of healthcare
The enhanced availability of information and communication via the internet, are leading to a growing international trade in healthcare services.
Improving garments
Now there are even garments for hospital visitors - a good thing, in view of MRSA and other pathogens.
The Nations Healthcareer Alumni Meeting
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.
Global healthcare report identifies best practices
Health organisations and governments should seek solutions beyond their own borders.
Medica 2005
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.
PACS aids Czech cancer crusade
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…
Decade of IT under-funding in the USA
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.
Asklepios develops an international showcase
Intel and Microsoft are developing pilot networks to link hospitals and healthcare participants.
PACS for Scotland
Kodak Health Group and National Services Scotland recently signed a formal contract, at the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, which officially appointed Kodak as the leading supplier to the Scotland National PACS project.
Cost-effectiveness analysis in the ICU
In most OECD countries, healthcare costs take 8-15% of GDP and, even more problematic, they are rising faster than the GDP growth rate.
Success of forum for managers continues
Within the five-days of ECR 2006, the congress management collaborated with European Hospital to hold another two-day:
Major order
The largest European service contract in the hospital sector, worth around €60 million, was recently awarded, by the Charité Hospital in Berlin, to Vamed, the Austrian hospital specialist. The project includes the out-sourcing of non-medical service areas.
