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Recast of the Medical Devices Directives is „not needed“
The European Medical Device Industry associations resist the European Commission’s proposal to build up a centralized European agency for Medical Devices. The new authority is Read more …
Hospital IT director builds in-house HIS
The Torrevieja Salud Hospital, in southern Valencia, serves a population of 200,000 – but this swells to 600,000 in holiday periods. Read more …
A survey in the NHS shows lack in infection control standards
The NHS is still suffering from wide variations in infection control standards, according to a survey of health staff in the UK. The study carried out by the watchdog body the Read more …
Seven years of lab re-organisation
Barcelona, Spain - The Hospital Clinic is a tertiary level University Hospital that provides a broad range of services, from basic healthcare coverage to 550,000 people, to Read more …
Kiosk Europe Expo 2008-04-24
Self-service can cut patient services costs, says Anne Warner, who reports for the trade publication Kiosk Europe. Read more …
Hospital IT director builds in-house HIS
The Torrevieja Salud Hospital, in southern Valencia, serves a population of 200,000 – but this swells to 600,000 in holiday periods. Read more …
Re-inventing the hospital
Over the past few years, hospitals in Germany have been faced with ever new challenges. However, the solutions offered so far are not sufficient. On the contrary – rather than Read more …
A small Hospital with a lot of technology
Torrevieja’s Hospital, sited on the south coast of the ‘Comunidad Valenciana’, in the Alicante’ s Province; starts on October 2006, for a peculiar population, with a media of Read more …
Vienna: New IT system reduces surgery waiting times
Approximately 150,000 surgical interventions are performed every year in the hospitals of Vienna. Efficient coordination of OR schedules in the individual clinics as well as the Read more …
Siemens Healthcare without Erich Reinhardt
Erich Reinhardt, CEO of Siemens Healthcare, will resign effective April 30, in conjunction with compliance violations within Siemens’ medical group. Reinhardt, 61, was not Read more …
Outsourcing, co-operation or centralisation
The complete takeover of hospital laboratories through private laboratory service providers is rapidly changing the nature of German laboratories. Taking a closer look at these Read more …
Is Lean right for your organisation?
By Maria Foster, Managing Director, Whitebridge Associates, Pittstown, NJ
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Uniting the lab and radiology
Healthcare is in a dynamic state of change — and so is the healthcare industry, in which there is an increasing trend towards integrating scientific disciplines. Read more …
Russia: New cardiology centre signals better healthcare
One of the most painful problems of modern Russia is the high death rate, especially among able-bodied people. In 2005, the average life expectancy for men was 58.8 years. Read more …
NEW VISIBILITY FOR NECKER-ENFANTS MALADES in Paris
In the heart of Paris, the Necker children’s hospital, the oldest in the world dedicated to paediatrics, was suffocating inside a completely inward-looking enclave. The challenge Read more …
Working around the risk: How doctors deal with the danger embedded in the medical system
Risk is an inherent element of the hospital system and the resulting dangers are often normalised by medical staff to allow them to do their job, according to research by a Read more …
Burned out or bored out of your mind?
A survey by the Gallup Institute (Potsdam) revealed that only 15% of Germans consider their job satisfying; 16% have mentally handed in their notice and 69% are ‘working to rule’. Read more …
Lightening up the environment for patients and staff
‘Is professional lighting for the bathroom a luxury?’ asks specialist lighting manufacturer Derungs Licht. ‘The Dlite vanera bath is something quite special. Read more …
The healing environment
The healing environment approach is a comprehensive concept targeting the elimination of stress factors for patients as well as their visitors that would otherwise minimise Read more …
Health telematics
Telematics appears to offer solutions for certain complex therapies – and for issues that will become central as populations further swell with age. Read more …
Industry specialists collaborate on the Asklepios Future Hospital Programme
In response to growing pressure on healthcare systems, Asklepios Clinics initially joined forces with Intel and Microsoft to establish the Asklepios Future Hospital (AFH) Read more …
Devlin respond to growing demand in Europe for infection control products, offering their “CleanKey” infection control keyboard in a variety of European languages. …
Knowing that good hygiene practice is critical to the prevention of cross contamination, New Style Healthcare services are introducing a range of unique hospital furniture to the …
To fight hospital infections and increasingly resistant bacteria Normeditec has developed Toul Mobile Laminar Airflow …
bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics (IVD), offers the most comprehensive diagnostic solution on the market to help hospitals and healthcare …