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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 …
Life’s choices
Radiologist Dr Myriam Hunink is a Professor in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Read more …
USP Hospitales de Marbella
USP Hospitales is a prominent Spanish hospital group with a network of 31 facilities in Spanish cities. The group also owns a 25% share in Hospitais Privados de Portugal, the Read more …
Take off in the operating theatre
Engineer Stefan Wollschläger, a partner in Visality Consulting GmbH, Berlin, and Dr Gregor Zehle MBA, a senior consultant at GÖK Consulting AG, Berlin, discuss the Read more …
Management Teams
Changes in the healthcare sector are presenting increasingly difficult challenges to European hospitals, but, according to the hospital chain Ategris GmbH, based in Read more …
Revised international accreditation standards for hospitals
The Joint Commission International (JCI) has produced a revised set of international accreditation standards for hospitals. Initiated in 1997, the JCI developed out of a need seen Read more …
A joint venture for Spain and Portugal
Grupo Hospitalario Quirón and José de Mello Saúde are sharing a joint venture that aims to create a reference private healthcare group in the Iberic Market. Read more …
Bern Inselspital relies on consulting expertise from Hamburg
In the Bern Inselspital, one of Switzerland’s most renowned university hospitals with a tradition of more than 650 years, change is underway: within the next six years the Read more …