Hospital

Agreement to streamline diagnostic imaging workflow management

Agfa HealthCare announces today that it has signed an agreement with Real Time Medical (RTM) to support the needs of collaborating or consolidated hospitals and imaging networks.

News • Cardiology

Transcatheter aortic valve implantations (TAVI)

A hybrid operating theatre is considered ideal for TAVI because cardiologists and cardiac surgeons can work hand in hand. Here, in the hybrid theatre at Kerckhoff Heart Centre, Bad Nauheim, a transcatheter aortic valve implant with transfemoral access is being performed. The clean air room features cardiac cath lab equipment and an X-ray system.

A third of European hospitals report operating losses

Facing rapidly rising costs, a third (33 percent) of European hospitals are reporting operating losses, generating negative earnings after tax, according to a new nine-country study released by Accenture at the annual WoHIT Conference.

Duke of Kent unveils expanded and refurbished consulting rooms

HRH the Duke of Kent, President of King Edward VII’s Hospital, today officially re-opened the expanded outpatients unit at Emmanuel Kaye House in London. The Hospital’s newly refurbished unit has doubled in size and will now offer eleven consulting rooms to accompany the growing number of patients

Statistics: Where is there safety in numbers?

Doctors slam claims of 18,800 preventable hospital deaths in just one EU country.

First patient for artificial heart dies

The first patient to receive a totally implantable artificial heart died 75 days after the procedure. The cause of death on March 2, 2014 was not disclosed in a short announcement made by the Hôpital Georges-Pompidou in Paris. European Hospital reported on his new heart device in the recently published issue 1/2014.

Stop that talk about price

Value contributions matter most as hospital supply chains undergo a major transformation. With the rising demand for medical services and expenses, cost control is paramount in the USA’s healthcare sector – as in most countries.

News • Cooperation

ICW becomes technology partner of iSOFT Health GmbH

InterComponentWare AG (ICW) and iSOFT Health GmbH, a CSC Company, have struck up a technology partnership.

News • Research

Deaths higher for heart attack patients at night and weekends

Off-hour presentation and outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction: systematic review and meta-analysis

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture

A Swiss and German researcher asked whether, where and how the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) is used in Europe and how relevant this survey – developed in the USA ten years ago and where it is widely accepted today – is in the European context.

Patient logistics drive hospital construction

Until recently, hospitals were constructed the way they had been built through centuries. Today, however, hospital design is shifting towards patient logistics, opening up very new perspectives.

Clostridium difficile infection

The realisation that the fight against C. difficile needs its own specific hygiene management dawned relatively recently. Up to the new millennium a common perception regarding European hospital infection prevention and control was that this bacterium was under control; it was considered a marginal phenomenon, which is why C. difficile was not the focus of problematic pathogen monitoring.

Hospital mortality figures should be calculated differently

The mortality figures as they are currently calculated for Dutch hospitals are not a good measure for the quality of the health care they provide.

Rushed deal leaves patients and jobs in second place

Eucomed, the European medical technology industry association, expresses disappointment and strong concern at the outcome of a vote in the European Parliament’s Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI).

Germany: Promised Land for Spanish medics?

While German medics leave the country in search of better conditions, foreigners fill the gaps. Spain, with its troubled economy, provides a major source.

Hygiene: Back to basics

Two statements from publications by Dr Stephanie Dancer, Department of Microbiology, Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride (UK) prompted Ralf Mateblowski to interview Professor Markus Dettenkofer, Acting Director of the Institute for Environmental Medicine and Hospital Hygiene, Freiburg University Medical Centre about environmental and infection control

The National Health Service Taskforce

A taskforce has been set up in England after it emerged that more than 750 patients had suffered as a result of serious preventable mistakes in hospitals over the past four years.

Another fine MES for healthcare equipment finance

Managed Equipment Service (MES) contracts have the potential to transform equipment-supply financing for healthcare, according to Siemens Financial Services’ Ulrich Stark, Head of Debt Origination for Healthcare in EMEA, and Anthony Casciano, CEO of Project, Structured & Leveraged Finance Healthcare

Truth behind the thousands of “needless” deaths at NHS trusts

Statistics behind the headlines: Have there been 13,000 needless deaths at 14 NHS trusts?

Patient privacy top priority in Norway

The Norwegian Health Directorate has selected FairWarning Patient Privacy Monitoring solution as an integral part of the national roll out of the Norwegian Summary Care Record (SCR).

Hospital Build & Infrastructure Europe

Around 2,800 visitors are expected at this year’s international Hospital Build & Infrastructure Europe (HBIE) fair, where presentations will include ‘pioneering healthcare strategies, prudent facility management and new approaches for the sustainable operation of hospitals’ as central themes.