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.
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.
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
Common unrest about pay and conditions leads doctors to strike in Germany and Spain. A report from Germany.
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.
Thanks to the convertion from analogue to digital imaging, Kodak Health Group reported a considerable success in Europe.
In most OECD countries, healthcare costs take 8-15% of GDP and, even more problematic, they are rising faster than the GDP growth rate.
UK - Patients who miss medical appointments cost the country's National Health Service (NHS) around £575 million annually.
The Estonian health system differs from its Baltic neighbour states thanks to a transformation process and reforms.
Within the five-days of ECR 2006, the congress management collaborated with European Hospital to hold another two-day:
In some areas of Spain, doctors are also becoming even militant.
Around €18 billion annually is spent on medical technology in Germany. After the US and Japan, the German medical technology market is the third largest in the world.
A report about the installation of a new HIS in combinations with the setting up of a new Economic Software platform at Semmelweis University.
The Med-e-Tel eHealth conference and trade show from 5 to 7 April 2006, Venue, Luxembourg, will again attrackt healthcare professionals.
Security in hospitals is not easy. Thousands of patients, visitors, members of staff, as well as delivery and removal people, come and go, and with so many strangers inevitably on the scene, a perfect cover for opportunistic thieves is created, so the theft of small items is not uncommon.
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.
Healthcare has no room for inefficiencies. Public healthcare managers, especially for hospitals, have to provide an increasing volume of high-level healthcare services with limited resources.
The problem is ubiquitous: Due to their workload, medical teams cannot accomplish their tasks to everyone’s satisfaction during regular working hours. Is the solution to raise staffing levels? More politics? At a political level a framework could be created but its actual implementation must occur within a facility, because that is where work schedules are drawn up, writes Denise Hennig,…
Radiologists working abroad - the reality
Austria - A call for the EU and national governments to establish and extend a legal framework for environmental standards in society and healthcare facilities was made by the organisers of `CleanMed Europe´, the first European conference to focus on sustainable healthcare products and practices.
Countries in the European Union spent €169 billion in 2003 on cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to research from a team at the Health Economics Research Centre, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, England, just published on-line by the European Heart Journal.
Radiology in public hospitals is under economic pressure due to limited public funding, partially decreasing radiology fees, capitation payment systems, central planning of capital investment, as well as the increasing complexity and cost of equipment.
It is the largest meeting of its kind with 5,000 participants.
In 2005, De Lage Landen financed (worldwide) medical equipment worth US$1 billion, by various methods such as loan, lease, rent and ppp, either directly with end-users or indirectly by refinancing manufacturers.
Over the last 50 years healthcare delivery has changed dramatically. New epidemics, aging populations, patients' expectations, mobilisation of populations, the globalisation and dissemination of information, all demand new patterns of healthcare delivery.
