Keywords: Quality Management
03/07/2010
Radiology and Management
Professor Jörg F. Debatin, MD MBA, Medical Director and Chairman of the Board of University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) opened the session with his presentation “The role …
03/07/2010
Hospitals and Cost Management
No more healthcare myopia! Although Szabolcs Dorotovics, MD MBA and Managing Director for Global Ventures at Johns Hopkins Medicine International, Baltimore, USA, is not an …
03/07/2010
Process Management and Radiology
Increasingly, hospitals have to find ways to optimise the capacity, efficiency and utilization of their MRI services. David Wormald, Integrated Assistant Vice President for …
03/07/2010
Medical Engineering and IT
“The problem between information technology and medical engineering may stem from sequential processing and intermeshing”, Peter Gocke, MD, said. Sounds difficult? But the …
03/02/2010
Contrast agents
At this year’s ECR, new developments will be outlined during the Contrast agents: Experimental and Clinical session. Mark Nicholls spoke with the session moderator Professor …
01/26/2010
French reform
Hôpital, Patients, Santé et Territories (HPST), a new hospital reform bill, was passed by the French Government and became law in July 2009. While directly related to hospitals …
01/26/2010
Planning the Hospital of the Future
The first decade of the 21st century has ended and the time has come to make up some minds about what hospitals should look like in the near future to fulfill the requirements of …
01/25/2010
Do we need integrated care planning?
In October 2009 this question was posed to German, Swiss, Austrian and northern Italian experts at the European Health Congress. Speaking with Karoline Laarmann, Professor Günter …
11/30/2009
Unindicated CT series: unnecessary radiation exposure
A large proportion of patients who undergo abdominal/pelvic computed tomography (CT) receive unindicated and unnecessary additional image acquisition resulting in excess, …
11/18/2009
As POC testing grows, so do risk of errors, quality
Today testing of patients at the point of care (POC) accounts for 25% of all testing, and these portable assays are increasing their penetration into medical practice at rapid …
11/12/2009
Making public hospitals more attractive for practitioners
Following fierce parliamentary debates last spring, the newly enacted law on Hospital reform is beginning to show concrete moves. One of these is to modify the remuneration system …
10/27/2009
GE Healthcare launched Discovery NM/CT 670
GE Healthcare announced the European launch of Discovery NM/CT 670, a hybrid imaging platform designed to improve workflow, dose management, and overall image quality. …
10/16/2009
Wie Ärzte sich informieren
Medizinisches Wissen wächst heute so schnell, dass Ärzte kaum in der Lage sind, diese Flut von Erkenntnissen zu verarbeiten. Von den täglich auf sie einwirkenden Informationen …
10/02/2009
Krankenhäuser nutzen jetzt GS1 Standards für mehr Patientensicherheit
Unter dem Motto Fit für gesunde Kooperation diskutierten auf der 2. GS1 Germany Healthcare Konferenz Vertreter aus Wirtschaft, Politik und Wissenschaft am 30.9. und …
09/16/2009
European Health Forum Gastein
600 international politicians, economists, scientists, NGOs and healthcare organisations will discuss the effects of the global economic crisis on European healthcare systems …
09/01/2009
Microbiology lab automation
Full automation has now become the gold standard for clinical laboratories. Without hospital microbiology labs, which according to the Centres for Disease Control deal with 1.7 …
07/24/2009
Enhanced archiving of patient data
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced a …
07/01/2009
A science-based approach to increase OT safety
Nine years ago surgeon Ulrich Matern, engineer Martin Scherrer and theatre nurse Diana Hagen, suggested a project aimed at improving work practices and efficiency in the operating …
07/01/2009
Are clinical trials inadequate to ensure new treatments are safe?
Concerns over whether the tests a treatment undergoes before general release are enough to ensure its long-term safety have been raised in an editorial by Dr Vijay Sharma, …
05/20/2009
E-commerce
German health insurance funds do not use their customer data sufficiently, according to a study by consultancy agency Kienbaum, which also found that health insurers do not …
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