Keywords: Quality Management

03/04/2013

Germany’s White List

A large survey for leading German health insurers has resulted in a hospital evaluation portal thatenables patients to compare and choose a doctor and treatment or care centre …

03/04/2013

Rogue Dutch doctor prompts calls for EU early warning system

There are too many loopholes that allow bad or fraudulent physicians to beat the system. …

11/09/2012

Does Germany top Europe in unnecessary diagnostics

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

09/06/2012

MIR – Making Imaging relevant

MIR is a subcommittee of the European Society of Radiology (ESR), focused on all aspects of management, which help to “Make Imaging Relevant” in today´s healthcare. Join our …

09/03/2012

MBAs versus MDs

Are physicians poor managers? Do trained managers kill humanity? Michael Krassnitzer sought answers from Dr Markus Schwarz from the international executive search consultancy Egon …

07/16/2012

EU healthy life expectancy

The European Joint Action on Healthy Life Years (EHLEIS) project, led by France and coordinated by the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), has …

07/10/2012

Tackling cancer information overload

Cancer specialists everywhere increasingly face new findings from molecular biology. Genetic profiling of tumours opens up entirely new perspectives on the disease. How to cope …

05/11/2012

ICN stresses critical need for evidence-based approach to nursing services

On the occasion of International Nurses Day 2012, the International Council of Nurses calls for an increase in evidence-informed decision making and practice. Nurses are often …

02/16/2012

Describing Community Nursing: Building blocks for improvement

The International Council of Nurses (ICN) is delighted to announce the release of a new publication, Community Nursing, in partnership with the Scottish Government and the …

02/15/2012

Quality management

Quality management has been an integral part of the German healthcare sector for years. Doing without it is unimaginable, particularly in terms of increasing economical and …

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 …

12/20/2011

Training against medical errors

Surgical simulations can save lives, Anja Behringer reports Medical errors occur more frequently than traffic accidents and clearly better systems are needed to improve patient …

12/05/2011

Documentation and certification

The German Society for Interventional Radiology and Minimally Invasive Therapy (DeGIR) has been developing its nation-wide quality assurance programme since 1987. ‘We launched …

11/18/2011

Manufacturers, please!

For 100% safety, medical product should be better labelled. While legislators, regulatory authorities and certification bodies stipulate that manufacturers should provide clear …

10/27/2011

Manufacturers, please! - Improve medical products labels for quicker recognition

For 100% safety, medical products should be better labelled. While legislators, regulatory authorities and certification bodies stipulate that manufacturers should provide clear …

10/20/2011

Organisation and technology as factors of success in A&E

Point of care technologies (POCT) have an important, quality enhancing, risk-reducing and cost-impacting role within the extremely time-critical medical decision structures of a …

08/31/2011

Referral management and referral cooperation

‘New market dynamics’ in healthcare, with characteristics such as crowding out, internationalisation of medical services, increasing transparency of services due to the media, …

08/31/2011

The role of hospital management consultants

‘Public hospitals are not yet acknowledging the necessity of engaging management consultants in the same way as private institutions. Management and organisational consultancy …

08/30/2011

Diverse views, similar aims

The 1st European Hospital Conference (EHC) will see three important organisations face up to their differences in what promises to be a great debate: During our interview with Dr …

08/11/2011

How radiotherapy errors can be reduced

A combination of several well-known safety procedures could greatly reduce patient-harming errors in the use of radiation to treat cancer, according to a new study led by Johns …