Proton therapy: under construction
The positive effects of proton rays have been known for years. However, Germany still lacks institutions that utilise those effects.
Economy
Drug trials
Small and medium-size contract research organisations (CROs) have huge potential. For the last few decades, pharmaceutical companies have increasingly chosen to use medium-size contract research organisations (CROs), or smaller organisations, rather than the larger organisations, due to their enhanced responsiveness and flexibility, that provides good geographic coverage, a broad therapeutic…
Software automatically converts data between devices
The DICOM Attribute Converter is a software module that solves even complex communication problems.
The EU's 30 billion healthcare losses
Fraud and corruption network protects 210 million citizens.
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.
MEDICA 2006
Wilhelm Niedergoeker, Managing Director of the Messe Dusseldorf GmbH, previews this year's events.
Nursing news
Nursing organisations have warned that about 70% of newly qualified nurses cannot find jobs in the UK's National Health Service (NHS).
The highest spend in EU
The UK spends more of its healthcare budget on cardiovascular disease than any other country in the EU.
Disease prevention
In the line of the symposium `Preventive Medicine - Costs, Uses, Technology´ in Nuremberg, healthcare experts dicussed how to cut costs.
Multi-million euros IT
The Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU), in Toulouse, contracted Agfa HealthCare to install ORBIS, the company's clinical and administrative information system.
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.
First EU ranking of the Lithuanian healthcare - worst in EU
Bad marks for Lithuanian healthcare system, best value for money in Slovenia and Estonia.
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.
