Management: Economics & Efficiency
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European Hospital's 4th Hospital Manager Symposium
Topical presentations on management, IT and finance in radiology sparked lively discussions among the 300 participants of our symposium for hospital managers, which we organise …
03/08/2007
Current aggressive IVF treatments put patients at risk
The Netherlands — In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) is an overly aggressive treatment and needlessly exposes childless women to substantial risks of complications and serious …
03/08/2007
Bitter pill for pharmacists
Many French pharmacists are falling on hard times after a year of falling revenues. Those most affected are in rural or semi-rural areas, where there is a growing shortage of …
03/08/2007
Attracting foreign patients
Czech hospitals maintain a very high standard of medical care, and their charges are more than affordable for foreign patients. However, local hospitals still lag behind in …
03/08/2007
Healthcare Fundraising — You will get what you ask for!
Over many millennia people have supported healthcare in many forms - from the `Good Samaritan´ in the Bible, to the elderly lady who died five years ago in Birmingham and left …
12/27/2006
Five win certificates in pain free hospital pilot scheme
A pain-free Hospital pilot project launched in Germany three years ago has ended with the first five of 25 hospitals being awarded a Qualified Pain Therapy certification. …
11/16/2006
Surviving the financial climate
Earlier disease detection will save healthcare services …
11/14/2006
Saving time with speech recognition systems
High-profile IT projects aimed at increasing efficiency and improving patient care. …
11/14/2006
The 3M Healthcare Forum 2006
DRG and quality management as a success factor in hospital management …
08/30/2006
One-touch testing for electromedical equipment
With `braincell´concept, Riger Medical provides a safe and effective electronical equipment for Biomedical Engeneering departments. …
08/08/2006
Financing a turnkey project in Poland
The Kopernik Angio Centre, which opened last November in Lodz, Poland, is a five million euro turnkey project. In 1998, the radiology department at the Kopernik hospital needed …
08/07/2006
A model for future success?
Volker Hüsken PhD: Following his PhD studies in information technology and economics, in the department of electrical engineering at the RWTH Aachen, Dr Hüsken became a systems …
08/07/2006
Integration in 3 stages
Hospitals increasingly co-operate with other establishments, and networking is becoming a way of life. Such change is also occurring in many hospital laboratories. By co-operating …
07/01/2006
Progressing towards the EPR
Today, the Local Healthcare Company ASL Nº 11, of Empoli, Florence, is a highly advanced public utility, able to face the challenges of technological innovations and to …
07/01/2006
Bringing Toyota production to the healthcare industry
In a widely publicised, groundbreaking report titled 'To Err is Human', issued in 1999 by the Institute of Medicine in the United States, the magnitude of unwanted deaths …
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