Advancements in Telepathology
Professor Werner Schlake, President of the German professional association of pathologists, described teleconsultation as the most significant application of telepathology.
Cooperation
Collaboration between imaging facilities
Peter Bogner MD PhD describes current projects aimed at enhancing patient care in South-West Hungary.
Integration in 3 stages
Hospitals increasingly co-operate with other establishments, and networking is becoming a way of life. Such change is also occurring in many hospital laboratories. By co-operating with other hospital labs and laboratory institutes, hospital labs try to improve their financial situation. By Dr Burkhard Ziebolz of Roche Diagnostics GmbH
Todays treatments
Dr Christiane Eickelberg, of the University of Giessen Lung Centre (UGLC), outlines the centre's research projects, aims and academic offerings
Progress
Scientific meetings held since 1998 at Alpbach, Germany, have attracted the sponsorship of leading associations and companies such as the Philip Morris External Research Programme, the Donors Association of German Science, Swiss National Fund, the German Heart Centre Foundation, Berlin, and Philips Medical Systems. At the 4th Alpbach Meeting, which focused on Magnetic Resonance, Contrast…
Under the microscope
The Netherlands needs greater integrated care and fuller governmental co-operation with healthcare professionals.
Perinatal medicine
Interview with Prof. Klaus Vetter MD, director of the Obestetrics Clinic at the Perinatal Centre, Vivantes Hospital Neukölln, Berlin, Germany.
ITeG 2006
This year's International Forum for Healthcare IT (ITeG 2006),held in May/June, has put this event firmly on the healthcare industry calendar.
Privately-owned radiology group speeds diagnoses
We asked radiologist Cyrille H Benoit MD, Director of the Bellevue Zurich Radiology Institute, about the group's choice of radiology equipment - particularly its PACS - and the rules of reimbursement in the Swiss healthcare system.
More distributors wanted
France - Danube, one of the world's biggest manufacturers of both flatwork dryer ironers, barrier washers, and tumble dryers, as well as front-loading washer extractors for the OPL market, has distributors in over 52 countries.
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.
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.
Integrated care
Dr Darius Jakubowski, a perinatal specialist and former senior physician at Holweide Hospital, works for three days a week at Holweide Hospital as a resident gynaecologist.
Asklepios develops an international showcase
Intel and Microsoft are developing pilot networks to link hospitals and healthcare participants.
The Imaging Science Institute
The Imaging Science Institute (ISI) — officially opened in December by Professor Werner Bautz, Director of the Institute of Radiology at the University Hospital Erlangen and Professor Erich R Reinhardt, member of the board at Siemens AG and chairman of the divisional board at Siemens Medical Solutions (Erlangen) — is the third institute (after Berlin and Tubingen) in which Siemens is…
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…
Partnerships to personalise medicine
Peter Loescher has worked at the cutting edge of the pharmaceutical industry for 17 years. In the latter part of this period, for example, he headed Hoechst's division in Japan, where he was also spokesperson for the European pharmaceutical industry, negotiating with the Japanese government during its healthcare reform in 2002.
First EU Women's Healthcare Centre opens
The Diagnostic Breast Centre Gottingen has opened the first European Women's Healthcare Centre (WHC). Professor Uwe Fischer, head of the new centre, said: "We have set ourselves the objective, with the help of ultra-modern systems and high-quality processes, to diagnose breast cancer in the very earliest stages."
Selling French savoir faire
Understandably, any development or re-design of a healthcare institution is multi-faceted, and, given the changes in healthcare delivery and politics,