Keywords: Financing

05/13/2013

One third of German hospitals are in the red

Government grants €1.1 billion to help finance rising personnel costs and increase nurses specialists in infection prevention and control …

03/10/2013

How to maintain appropriateness and safety

The second Management in Radiology session at this year’s ECR focussed on challenges for radiology coming from telemedicine, eHealth, appropriateness, and safety issues. …

03/04/2013

UK labs face changes and challenges from new healthcare legislation

Aspects of new healthcare legislation are causing concern among medical laboratory experts in the United Kingdom – including the lack of future funding for innovation and …

02/26/2013

Transparency and benchmarking

Late last year, at the German Hospital Procurement Congress in Berlin, we met with Durral R Gilbert, President of the US firm Premier Supply Chain Services, who was presenting …

01/24/2013

The curious (and sad) tale of abandoned plans and dismantled hopes

A prototype for proton and ion therapy has been used clinically in Heidelberg since 2009. Built jointly by Siemens and GSI (Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research) in Darmstadt. …

01/16/2013

Medical research in the United Kingdom

The formation of the National Institute for Health Research has made the field vastly stronger and the country is now placed second only to the USA, reports Mark Nicholls …

11/12/2012

National interests hamper EU cross-border research

Germany hopes for better research conditions as revision of the EU Clinical Trials Directive is nigh …

11/12/2012

The needs of European hospitals are similar

Procedures, financing and cultural philosophies can shape the difference, Michael Reiter, Mark Nicholls, Eduardo de la Sota, Jane MacDougall report …

11/09/2012

Does Germany top Europe in unnecessary diagnostics

Statistics show significant increase in scans and left heart catheterisations, Susanne Werner reports …

09/11/2012

China Medical Service Industry Development Summit 2012

Demand for health services in China is on the surge, and democracy pre-empts an upward trajectory. …

07/10/2012

Surgeons ‘fire a warning shot’ over Germany’s hospitals

Are surgeons still opting for surgical procedures solely for medical need – or are economics forcing their decisions? That vexatious question, posed at the 129th Congress of …

06/12/2012

Growing global medical leasing market starts to reduce proportion of “frozen capital” in world healthcare systems

A new report from Siemens Financial Services (SFS) shows that annual growth rates for global medical equipment leasing and renting have now outstripped growth in the medical …

05/25/2012

Malta’s Saint James Hospital Group

Embarking on any business enterprise is never a small feat, but when that business is healthcare the task becomes gargantuan – and even greater if opening a healthcare facility …

04/30/2012

Spain’s deep crisis continues

Cuts in pharmaceuticals spending, doctors’ jobs threats, A&E closures, non-payments to medical suppliers – can a new government save their country and its NHS by massive …

04/30/2012

Feuding cardiologists

A €35,000 DRG reimbursement for TAVI has put Germany in the lead for this procedure – and prompted sharp competition and disputes between cardiologists and cardio-surgeons, …

04/30/2012

Italy’s healthcare reform

Italian healthcare is still hitting the headlines. Although Prime Minister Mario Monti announced plans for healthcare reform at the end of 2011 – effectively cutting healthcare …

01/12/2012

Cuts in services for patients are difficult to justify when opportunities exist to improve hospital efficiency

There are many ways in which hospitals could improve efficiency and reduce the need for cutbacks in services for patients, according to a major review of hospital efficiency …

12/05/2011

Ranking healthcare systems worldwide

Does France provide the world’s best health service? How is a good healthcare system defined? Who decides that one healthcare system is better than another? What do we expect …

10/27/2011

USA: The new Ann & Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

In 2012, Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital will be in transition, with a change of name as well as location, when its top class technology, physicians, scientists, staff …

09/02/2011

From CR to DR

Breathtaking though the rate of improvement in medical imaging systems may be, many hospitals remain locked into their various evolutionary stages – depending on their needs and …