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Virgen del Rocío

Spanish event surprised with a number of high-profile IT projects.

Medical and financial assessment of new technologies in hospitals

Frederik L Giesel MD MBA about the importance of process management and efficiency in hospitals.

The 3M Healthcare Forum 2006

DRG and quality management as a success factor in hospital management

Saving time with speech recognition systems

High-profile IT projects aimed at increasing efficiency and improving patient care.

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.

Streamlining mammography

4 steps to successful staff planning

Most hospitals must now report on the origin, cost and usage of all equipment and supplies. However, far less is known about a hospital's most important and expensive* asset: employees. Despite financial pressures, DRGs, and the EuGH judgement, which aims to end stress (particularly for junior doctors) discussion of the economical and effective use of personnel is frequently avoided, or can evoke…

A new training scheme for junior doctors

“The UK is at the forefront of worldwide educational practice”.

Romania

In preparation for EU entry, Romania's laboratories are in the process of raising standards.

Management: a new paradigm for clinical laboratory scientists

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

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…

Under the microscope

The Netherlands needs greater integrated care and fuller governmental co-operation with healthcare professionals.

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.

Privately-owned radiology group speeds diagnoses

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.

A radically changing IT landscape

The mood at the International Forum for Healthcare IT (IteG 2006), held in Frankfurt, Germany, this May/June, indicated that this market is gaining momentum.

ITeG 2006

This year's International Forum for Healthcare IT (ITeG 2006),held in May/June, has put this event firmly on the healthcare industry calendar.

Thermofocus

"Thermofocus* is the first non-contact clinical thermometer in the world and the only one working at an accurate and determinate distance," Tecnimed srl, its manufacturer, reports. "Body temperature is measured in less than one second by pointing Thermofocus at the centre of the forehead."