The highest spend in EU
The UK spends more of its healthcare budget on cardiovascular disease than any other country in the EU.
Economy
MEDICA 2006
Wilhelm Niedergoeker, Managing Director of the Messe Dusseldorf GmbH, previews this year's events.
The Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research
The objective of the CNIC is to lead cardiovascular research in Spain and establish itself as a leading international centre.
Philips From X-rays to Motiva homecare
To learn more about the presence of Philips in healthcare - and particularly cardiology - our Netherlands correspondent visited the company in Amsterdam.
What's new in PET technology?
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a fancy tool for metabolic imaging. This week Tom Lewellen from the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle takes a detailed look on what is to expect of the recent developments in PET detector technology.
Financing a turnkey project in Poland
The Kopernik Angio Centre, which opened last November in Lodz, Poland, is a five million euro turnkey project. In 1998, the radiology department at the Kopernik hospital needed modernisation, but the hospital's owner - the province of Lodz - could not afford such a large investment and, as a public institution, the hospital itself could not seek a financial loan. A way around the problem was…
A model for future success?
Volker Hüsken PhD: Following his PhD studies in information technology and economics, in the department of electrical engineering at the RWTH Aachen, Dr Hüsken became a systems engineer at Siemens AG, where he directed the development of the Super Computer Reference Centre. After several years as IT Director with Klöckner Datentechnik and EDS, he became Senior Consultant for strategic…
Innovations:
By Professor Maximilian F Reiser, director of the Institute of Clinical Radiology at the University Clinic, Munich, Germany
Mobile radiology diagnoses
MORTIS is a new teleradiology system which utilises high-resolution laptops to receive images for diagnostic purposes.
European Hospital at the ECR
Daniela Zimmermann reports on the 2nd Hospital Administrator Forum.
Market-oriented performance measurement
by Rainer Sibbel
Romania
In preparation for EU entry, Romania's laboratories are in the process of raising standards.
Spanish model spreads wings
The Valencia Community Government, applying actual Spanish Legislation, has promoted an innovative healthcare model -based on private management of a public hospital.
ITALY
Bologna - The University Hospital S.Orsola-Malpighi has 1,800 beds and is one of the largest to install the DNLab management system. With 150 workstations connected to the LIS and over 50 analysers, each day, the two laboratories (central and microbiology) receive almost 3,000 orders and carry out over nine million tests annually. Hospital wards and departments are connected via Web to the LIS…
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
Facing the future
Increase in COPD and chronic respiratory disease patients will challenge the European Healthcare Systems in the future.
High flyers and high earners
Thousands of foreign medical professionals underpin the UK's National Health Service (NHS). In 2004, of the country's newly registered medics, two thirds of the doctors, and over 40% of the nurses, had come from other countries. In total, about 72,000 of the UK's 212,000 registered doctors are not British. That figure includes, for example, around 12,500 doctors from Africa and, from the EU,…
Under the microscope
The Netherlands needs greater integrated care and fuller governmental co-operation with healthcare professionals.
Pandemic panic sends feathers flying
AIDS, SARS and now H5NI; just a brief beginning or the end? As the virus moves towards Europe, and millions of birds are slaughtered, interest has risen in a Chinese herb, a patent-sharing controversy and drug stockpiling
Single image/data management system integrates major medical fields
IMPAX Enterprise - a single image and data management system that draws together radiology, cardiology, orthopaedics, and women's care.
The Netherlands and Belgium
Healthcare authorities have advised university hospitals to slowdown surgical training, because, after years of study, qualified Dutch surgeons can find no employment.
Swedish firm to aid UK's cancer treatment delivery
As part of its national cancer program, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) is currently investing in increased capacity for radiation treatment of cancer.
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.
Stenting: Dynamic growth continues
Paris, France - The explosive growth in demand for drug eluting stents has shaped a market worth more than six billion euros annually.