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Even experts sometimes need good advice
Acting as a medical expert witness can have serious consequences for third persons. Although expert witnesses are doing their best, many problems arise from their medico-legal Read more …
A software for patients privacy
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a software application to automatically "de-identify" medical records. The software might help to Read more …
“Qualifying” is an urgent need in health biz
Michael Schumacher once won nearly every qualifying in Formula One. But Germany won’t win the world championship in qualification of their healthcare workers, neither, however, Read more …
Sharing news breast cancer has come back is worse than giving initial diagnosis
“Hearing the sad news that breast cancer has returned can be a devastating experience for patients, especially as this means that the disease is no longer curable. Doctors also 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 …
Vienna about to reorganise its hospital landscape
Vienna is facing comprehensive restructuring of its hospital landscape in order to accommodate the demographic changes in the Austrian capital city. Currently, in northern Vienna 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 …
“Clean hands” to reduce nosocomial infections
The project “Clean Hands” is Germany’s contribution to the WHO initiative “Clean care is safe care”. “Clean Hands” aims at improving hand hygiene in German hospitals in order to Read more …
Emergency endoscopy services need to be better organized
According to a survey published in the journal Clinical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians, there seems to be a serious under provision of out-of-hours emergency Read more …
Guide launched to develop nurses’ business skills
UK – The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has launched a new guide to help nurses understand business and financial practices in the country’s National Health Service (NHS). 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 …
E-psychiatry
The uses of the internet in psychiatry have increased in recent years, and there is evidence that professionals, patients, families, institutions and other agents benefit from it. Read more …
Hippocrates meets Medusa’s head
By Dr J Larsen MD FRCR, Consultant Radiologist at Braunschweig Hospital, Germany 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 …
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 …
One of Europe’s biggest e-health projects
Following an agreement between Wolfgang Pföhler, Chairman of the Management Board of German company Rhön-Klinikum AG, and Professor Erich R Reinhardt, Member of the Read more …
New concept leads to greater leadership
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 …
GS1 Healthcare Conference – New ways to more patient safety and cost reduction
GS1 is the leading global standards organisation in the healthcare industry. In 56 countries worldwide, GS1 standards have been chosen to identify pharmaceutical products Read more …
IT for Istanbul
Turkey - The recently opened 74-bed Florence Nightingale Kiziltoprak Hospital, which has three operating rooms and 10 ICU beds, is one of four hospitals in a Turkish healthcare Read more …
