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.
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.
In most OECD countries, healthcare costs take 8-15% of GDP and, even more problematic, they are rising faster than the GDP growth rate.
Within the five-days of ECR 2006, the congress management collaborated with European Hospital to hold another two-day:
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.
UK - Although the Department of Health (DoH) demanded a 50% reduction in MRSA cases in hospitals by 2008, a report at the end of 2005 suggested that some hospitals were making poor progress towards this goal.
The 15th international healthcare exhibition from 25 to 28 May in Bologna, Italy has expand up to 25,000 sq.m and 20,000 visitors.
Downloading digitally signed clinical test results from home is possible and 40% of users residing in the Treviso region in Veneto, do so regularly.
Every day, critical events occur in hospitals but do not harm patients. Anonymous reporting to increase patient safety
The LBK Hamburg clinics (General Hospitals Hamburg) became part of the Asklepios group in 2002 and have seen continuous modernisation ever since.
The Estonian health system differs from its Baltic neighbour states thanks to a transformation process and reforms.
There is growing unrest in the nursing profession in the UK following announcements of planned job cuts in the NHS.
In some areas of Spain, doctors are also becoming even militant.
Common unrest about pay and conditions leads doctors to strike in Germany and Spain. A report from Germany.
Reimbursement for hospitals in Germany has undergone a complete change since the introduction of the German Diagnosis Related Group system (G-DRG).
Germany - Health Care Export, a new four-year project run by the Institute for Work and Technology (IWT) and the Sozial- und Seniorenwirtschaftszentrum in Gelsenkirchen, supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, and by advertising and public relations measures from VVA Health Marketing Ltd, aims to develop international standards for international healthcare service…
Biometry, or the technical recognition of physical characteristics, is playing an increasingly important role in clinics and hospitals. By Thomas Bengs, Product Manager for Vein, Fujitsu Europe Limited Group
Joint Commission International (JCI) accredited hospitals have long expressed an interest in performance measurement to support quality improvement efforts and to provide a valid base for local, national, and international comparisons.
Poland - Many medical workers may soon be ethically challenged by a decision made in Europe's Court of Human Rights regarding a woman who had been refused an abortion there.
Over the last 50 years healthcare delivery has changed dramatically. New epidemics, aging populations, patients' expectations, mobilisation of populations, the globalisation and dissemination of information, all demand new patterns of healthcare delivery.
In 2005, De Lage Landen financed (worldwide) medical equipment worth US$1 billion, by various methods such as loan, lease, rent and ppp, either directly with end-users or indirectly by refinancing manufacturers.
Around €18 billion annually is spent on medical technology in Germany. After the US and Japan, the German medical technology market is the third largest in the world.
Are the benefits of the IT invasion those we actually perceive?
Managing a modern healthcare organisation is complex. Complexity stems from the variables that need to be entertained, which are highly unpredictable.
