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.
MRSA specialists tackle 'worst' hospitals
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.
Exposanitá
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.
Health Optimum
Downloading digitally signed clinical test results from home is possible and 40% of users residing in the Treviso region in Veneto, do so regularly.
Learn from other's mistakes
Every day, critical events occur in hospitals but do not harm patients. Anonymous reporting to increase patient safety
Article • Six hospitals - one PACS
Asklepios invests € 7 million to network Hamburg hospitals
The LBK Hamburg clinics (General Hospitals Hamburg) became part of the Asklepios group in 2002 and have seen continuous modernisation ever since.
The Baltic States and their health systems - From Soviet to EU
The Estonian health system differs from its Baltic neighbour states thanks to a transformation process and reforms.
UK nurses in revolt
There is growing unrest in the nursing profession in the UK following announcements of planned job cuts in the NHS.
Catalonia doctors strike
In some areas of Spain, doctors are also becoming even militant.
Militancy among medics Will it spread?
Common unrest about pay and conditions leads doctors to strike in Germany and Spain. A report from Germany.
Clinical activity based process-cost coupling
Reimbursement for hospitals in Germany has undergone a complete change since the introduction of the German Diagnosis Related Group system (G-DRG).
Healthcare service is an `export´ business
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…
Biometric authentication
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
Performance measurement to improve quality
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.
