• How the Cloud will Revolutionise Sharing Medical Image Data

    Improving Cost Effectiveness and Patient Outcomes As the global healthcare landscape undergoes monumental change, healthcare IT is becoming a primary enabler of collaboration and cost management. Medical imaging, particularly the ability to move imaged data to the cloud, will create an opportunity for integration of existing technology into...

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  • The Dutch Healthcare System: Noblesse Oblige

    The Dutch healthcare model as introduced in 2006 is very successful and healthcare in the Netherlands is regarded by many as the best in Europe (Euro Health Consumer Index 2008, 2009). Indeed some countries, such as Ireland, are looking to the Dutch model for inspiration in the reform of their own healthcare systems. But is this model really as good...

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  • The Nurses’ Work Environment: Key To Nurse And Patient Satisfaction

    In hospitals where nurses report better working conditions, nurses are less likely to leave the hospital and patients are more satisfied with their hospital stay and rate their hospitals more highly. These findings result from the Registered Nurse Forecasting (RN4CAST) study. This nurse workforce study was one of the largest studies...

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  • MedTech Europe and the Contract for a Healthy Future

    Contributing to sustainable healthcare through a European medical technology industry alliance MedTech Europe is an Alliance of European medical technology industry associations. Its current members are EDMA, the European In Vitro Diagnostics Manufacturers Association, and Eucomed, the European Medical Technology Industry...

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  • Reflections on Healthcare in Romania

    How is healthcare organised in Romania? Political changes in 1990 also affected the Romanian health system, which has gradually become two-tiered with a strong state component and a poorly represented private one, still to grow at national level. The private network has rapidly developed a number of specialisations (GP, dentistry, ophthalmology,...

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  • Editorial

    Actuellement, less Européansnont paslatâche facile. Les diverses conséquences de la crise économiqueet financière sont maintenant claires et imputées, à tort, à l’Union européenne. Nous constatons aussi que les pays ont tendance à se tourner de plus en plus vers le nationalismeet le particularisme, y compris au niveau national. Il me semble...

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  • Editorial

    UNSERE EUROPÄISCHE VERANTWORTUNG Überzeugte Europäer haben es heute nicht leicht. Die vielfältigen Auswirkungen der Finanz- und Schuldenkrise sind augenscheinlich. Zu Unrecht werden diese Probleme mit der Entwicklung in Europa in Verbindung gebracht. Darüber hinaus gibt es in vielen Ländern Europas die Tendenz zurück zur Nation und...

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  • AEDH News

    COMPTE RENDU DE LA 42ÈME ASSEMBLÉE GÉNÉRALE ORDINAIRE QUI S’EST TENUE LE 16 NOVEMBRE 2012 À DÜSSELDORF, ALLE M. Heinz Kolking, président de l'AEDH, a accueilli les membres à l'Assemblée générale. L’agenda 2012 et le compte rendu de la 41ème Assemblée générale ordinaire ont été approuvés à l'unanimité. Après cela,...

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  • EVKD News

    42. ORDENTLICHE GENERALVERSAMMLUNG 16.11.2012, DÜSSELDORF Der Präsident der EVKD, Hr. Heinz Kölking, hieß die Mitglieder zur Ordentlichen Generalversammlung herzlich willkommen. Die diesjährige Tagesordnung sowie das Protokoll der 41. Ordentlichen Generalversammlung wurden einstimmig angenommen. Nachfolgend stellte Herr Kölking den Tätigkeitsbericht...

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  • Executive Summaries

    L’application de la directive sur les soins de santé transfrontaliers en milieu hospitalier : comment gérer la qualité ?   La directive européenne sur les droits des patients en matière de soins de santé transfrontaliers est entrée en vigueur le 24 avril 2011. Sa transposition en droit national dans les États membres doit être effectuée...

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