Management: Economics & Efficiency
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Too much of the hard stuff: what alcohol costs the NHS
Treating alcohol-related conditions cost the NHS approximately £2.7 billion in 2006/07, almost double the 2001 cost. This new NHS Confederation briefing, produced with the Royal …
11/19/2009
The HealthCare Summit
At this year’s two-day HealthCare Summit, held in Berlin, 58 representatives of hospitals and healthcare facilities, IT specialists and consultants discussed financing, market …
10/29/2009
Outsourcing diagnostic services
Alliance Medical is Europe´s largest provider of outsourced diagnostic imaging services, with over 15 years of unparalleled operational and service excellence, with offices in …
10/16/2009
Wie Ärzte sich informieren
Medizinisches Wissen wächst heute so schnell, dass Ärzte kaum in der Lage sind, diese Flut von Erkenntnissen zu verarbeiten. Von den täglich auf sie einwirkenden Informationen …
10/14/2009
Siemens wins service contract from large US clinic
The University of Pennsylvania Health System, one of the largest health systems in the US, has awarded a $135 million contract for Integrated Service Management to Siemens …
10/02/2009
EHFG 2009: Health Policy between Ethics and Finances
The economic crisis has considerably intensified the relationship between what is ethically desirable and financially possible. This is clearly demonstrated by the numerous events …
10/02/2009
Bureaucratic obstacles put brakes on innovations
With respect to the sufficiently rapid utilisation of innovations, European healthcare systems are inadequately prepared for the pace of innovation that has now been reached, …
10/01/2009
Will you survive the crisis?
Innumerable lives have been destroyed since the crash of the global financial markets last September. Fortunes vanished within hours and promising careers experienced a sudden …
10/01/2009
Crisis threatens access to health and social services
According to leading economists, the current crises will hit the private sector heavily in 2010. Especially housholds in countries with poor social security networks will be …
09/30/2009
Focus on financial and economic crisis
The 12th European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG), taking place from 30 September to 3 October 2009 in the beautiful surrounding of the Austrian Alps in Bad Gastein, welcomes around …
09/16/2009
European Health Forum Gastein
600 international politicians, economists, scientists, NGOs and healthcare organisations will discuss the effects of the global economic crisis on European healthcare systems …
09/01/2009
Germany´s university hospitals suffer economic crisis
Among Germany´s 2,087 hospitals, the country´s 32 university hospitals, employing 180,000 to care for up to two million patients, may appear to play a marginal role. However, …
08/24/2009
MCC hospital world 2009
The international congress for the hospital market MCC hospital world 2009, will takes place on 21st and 22nd September 2009 for the 7th time in Berlin, Germany.Experts from all …
08/04/2009
Schlaganfall-Therapie 24 Stunden am Tag
Patienten mit Schlaganfall erreichen die Klinik in der Regel zu spät. Vor allem wenn die Symptome am Sonntag einsetzen und relativ gering ausgeprägt sind, zögern die …
07/21/2009
Virtueller Arztbesuch: Cisco HealthPresence
Ab sofort lässt sich Cisco HealthPresence im Customer Briefing Center (CBC) in Eschborn bei Frankfurt am Main live erleben. Ärzte, Krankenhausbetreiber und Interessenten …
07/01/2009
International TB support from KfW Development Bank
Within the World Health Organisation European region three quarters of all new tuberculosis (TB) infections occur in Kazakhstan, Romania, Russia, Uzbekistan, the Ukraine and …
07/01/2009
Denmark's healthcare
In current USA debates on healthcare reform referrals to IT use in Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK are frequent and well supported by studies performed by the Commonwealth …
07/01/2009
Lighting for health and healing
Hardly any other area demands such complex lighting solutions as healthcare and nursing, given that it is essential to create optimal conditions to fulfil an extremely wide range …
07/01/2009
Hard-to-heal wounds
In `Hard-to-heal wounds: a holistic approach´ a paper produced by the European Wound Management Association (EWMA), the authors analyse the calculation of treatment costs, based …
05/07/2009
apoBank und TeleCash bieten Komplett-Paket für die Gesundheitskarte an
In den kommenden Wochen und Monaten werden die Krankenkassen mit der Ausgabe der neuen elektronischen Gesundheitskarte (eGK) an ihre Mitglieder starten. Damit der Basis-Rollout …
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