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03/27/2009

A new high-rise on New York´s horizon

Ten years ago, New York real estate entrepreneur Israel Green began a worldwide search for a cure for his wife´s lung cancer. A year later, the couple returned to New York empty …

03/01/2009

E-prescribing in the US

President Barack Obama has made e-prescribing an element of his plan to improve the US healthcare system …

03/01/2009

Global economic crisis: a cruel set back for Russian healthcare

Despite stronger government support over the past few years, and Russia's healthy medical care prospects, funding is now a lowly 3.6% of the nation's income and again problem …

01/10/2009

2009 economies

At the dawn of 2009, amid economic gloom worldwide, GE Healthcare has predicted that sales of its higher-priced (imaging equipment will be down in the USA in 2009, compared with …

01/10/2009

Make a note in your diary: The MCC Hospital World 2009

Globalization and internationalization are increasingly important, but the question is, how to handle these trends as they affect the hospital market? The 2009 MCC Hospital World …

12/20/2008

St Mary's Hospital Centre

The overall quality of laboratory operations has traditionally been evaluated using a combination of three variables: analytical quality, timeliness (turnaround time) and …

11/11/2008

The Czech scene

Water and energy management (WEM) appears to be successfully handled by the majority of local healthcare institutions, because Czech hospitals do spend, on average 2-5% of their …

10/28/2008

UK: Rosie's energy-saving programme saves £-thousands

In May 2006 the Rosie Hospital, in Cambridge, UK, launched a competition challenging staff to suggest ways to save energy or time. Many came up with energy saving ideas. This …

10/28/2008

Germany: Tackling contaminated water

Compared with private households, hospitals may only produce 10-20% of wastewater containing the residue of drugs; however, tackling the problem is very necessary. …

09/17/2008

Suffering from regulatory problems

Patient monitoring technology offers enormous benefits for the patient. But reimbursement is insufficiently regulated all over Europe. Therefore, telemedicine generates a loss for …

09/10/2008

Better care saves hospitals money

Researchers from the Center to Advance Palliative Care and from the National Palliative Care Research Center, New York, found out that US-hospitals can save more than $300 per day …

09/01/2008

EHFG

The programme for this year's European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) - its 10th gathering - covers a far broader range of topics than before. During over 20 plenary sessions, forums …

09/01/2008

Patients views on pay for their personal self control

To reduce health costs as well as improve health, many large employers and insurers are introducing pay for the performance of patients (P4P4P). …

09/01/2008

Pioneering software to protect patients' privacy

Information in patients' records could benefit biomedical research in terms of understanding diseases and their treatments. The drawback is that those records contain confidential …

09/01/2008

Efficient processes in the Finnish hospital HUS

The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS) is the biggest of 20 hospital districts in Finland. It provides specialised and university level health care services in and …

07/21/2008

German healthcare system: lack of transparency

The German healthcare system is designed for corruption, since the its organisation is delegated to statutory health insurers, physicians' associations, etc. which are all …

07/14/2008

Cancer under costs control

Doctors have to fulfil two jobs, which seem to be diametrically opposed: They have to provide the best care for their patients and simultaneously have to think economical. …

07/09/2008

Siemens to cut 1,550 jobs in healthcare sector

Continuing its transformation program, Siemens intends to make job cuts primarily in administration-related functions. “The speed at which business is changing has increased …

07/01/2008

Planning pathways to a peaceful end

People here have reached the end of their lives. …

07/01/2008

Private medicine

Olga Ostrovskaya reports on the first St Petersburg medical forum Private medicine in Russia: Problems and ways of evolution, which took place in June. Organised by various …

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