Management

10/07/2010

Chequerboard of infertility treatment in Europe

European patients are in many countries, in fact, limited in their individual choice of medically assisted reproduction (MAR) treatment, experts from the European Society of Human …

10/01/2010

The Risks are Controllable

The reprocessing of single use medical devices is well-established in Europe. However, questions about the risk for patients and users arise constantly. The European Commission …

09/28/2010

New report reveals inefficient management of chronic pain costs Europe billions of Euros each year

A new report launched today in the European Parliament shows inefficiencies in the treatment of chronic pain result in increasing healthcare costs and prolonged patient …

09/28/2010

EU expertise on health policy of interest to countries in Balkans and CIS

Expert knowledge in health policy from the EU is in demand outside the Union. The European Health Forum Gastein is a vital hub for the future development of European health …

09/10/2010

Healthcare deficits put focus on frontline performance in medical care

Facing billion-euro deficits, European healthcare systems are putting hospital operations under the microscope to find areas where costs can be slashed dramatically, reports John …

09/07/2010

Predicting future admissions

The aim of the predictive modelling systems being trialled in the UK are to identify which people in a given population are the most likely to be admitted to hospital in the next …

09/07/2010

Deadly disease, dismal summary

Recently, the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the Czech Republic reached 7-8% (783,321 diabetics were treated last year – 419,362 females and 363,959 males) but this figure …

09/07/2010

Finnish health initiatives help reduce the incidence of diabetes

Finland’s national programme for the prevention of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has already seen a significant sector of the population making meaningful lifestyle changes, while work …

09/07/2010

Managing the medical laboratory

The accuracy and reliability of medical laboratory examination results are vital part in healthcare delivery, and these plus the effective operation of laboratories are the main …

09/07/2010

The European Health Forum Gastein

More than 600 distinguished guests from 40 countries are expected at this year’s European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG). ‘Since its foundation in 1998, the EHFG has developed …

09/07/2010

War on NHS reform

A Government White Paper on healthcare reform has caused Unison, Britain’s biggest public sector trade union (over 1.3 million members), to launch legal action against …

09/07/2010

The Global E-Health Forum 2010

The Global E-Health Forum, which will take place on October 25-26, 2010, in Hamburg, Germany, will address the main challenges healthcare systems all over the world are facing: …

09/07/2010

Health insurers’ data is inadequate for healthcare research

Computer stored data from German health insurers are still inadequate for health services research, according to a study* led by Prof. Wolfgang Greiner, Head of the Healthcare …

08/31/2010

Euroconvention is pleased to invite you

As healthcare becomes prime focus in the MENA region, this 2-day international event presents itself as an unprecedented business development opportunity for every company with …

08/31/2010

Reuse of single-use devices - Safety and Ethics not so clear

Eucomed, the European Medical Technology Industry association, welcomes the European Commission's (EC) report on the reprocessing of medical devices. While remaining typically …

08/18/2010

Ethianum in Heidelberg with future proof infrastructure

The Ethianum in Heidelberg is one of the first clinics in Germany to align itself consistently according to sustainability criteria, thus making it a hospital in keeping with the …

08/12/2010

Meiko Innovation:Top Cut B

Avoiding and reducing waste in the clinical environment not only has highly scalable effects in economic terms, but also marks a key milestone on the path towards a ‘green …

08/03/2010

Improved A&E Workflow with Carestream Health DRX Evolution

Worthing Hospital, on the south coast of England, has installed a CARESTREAM DRX-Evolution dual detector room in its busy Accident & Emergency (A&E) department. The new modular …

08/03/2010

US health care lags rest of world in EPR systems

The well established, universal health care structures of EU countries with most specialty practices located within hospitals has led to a more advanced electronic patient record …

07/14/2010

The UK’s one million undiagnosed diabetics

At the end of June a shocking new estimate was released in the UK regarding the number of people unwittingly going about their lives without knowing they are type 2 diabetics – …