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.
At over 200 years old, it is also one of the oldest hospitals, yet is classed as one of the most up-to-date institutes in Europe.
Siemens has signed an agreement with Bayer to acquire the chemical and pharmaceutical company's Diagnostics Division.
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.
This year's International Forum for Healthcare IT (ITeG 2006),held in May/June, has put this event firmly on the healthcare industry calendar.
It occupies approximately the same space as one to three atoms.
In 2002-2003 around 116,000 incidents of abuse were recorded in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
Barbara Streisand sang about it in Second Hand Rose:
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.
The enhanced availability of information and communication via the internet, are leading to a growing international trade in healthcare services.
Prevention is better than cure - use the technology! A report from the 1st International High Tech in Medicine congress.
Health organisations and governments should seek solutions beyond their own borders.
Sweden - The Swedish Brain Foundation has received a donation of SEK 250 thousand (approximately e27,593) to support advanced research and development, from GE Healthcare, based in Uppsala.
The question of who should manage intensive care was hotly debated at the 35th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (GSTCVS); not always essentially, frequently aggressively, sometimes even insulting says EH Correspondent Holger Zorn
In most OECD countries, healthcare costs take 8-15% of GDP and, even more problematic, they are rising faster than the GDP growth rate.
The 12th annual European Radiology Congress, held in Vienna, received 16,000 visitors from 90 countries.
UK - Patients who miss medical appointments cost the country's National Health Service (NHS) around £575 million annually.
In some areas of Spain, doctors are also becoming even militant.
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.
Common unrest about pay and conditions leads doctors to strike in Germany and Spain. A report from Germany.
Within the five-days of ECR 2006, the congress management collaborated with European Hospital to hold another two-day:
There is growing unrest in the nursing profession in the UK following announcements of planned job cuts in the NHS.
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.
Thanks to the convertion from analogue to digital imaging, Kodak Health Group reported a considerable success in Europe.
The Estonian health system differs from its Baltic neighbour states thanks to a transformation process and reforms.