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ISO/IEC 27799
What’s In This Standard for Healthcare IT Managers ? Even as European healthcare IT professionals brace themselves to understand the shifting contours of the emerging e-Health wave and cope with its implications, regulatory developments in yet another sphere are appearing on the horizon. The ISO (International Standards Organisation)/...
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Outsourcing Management of ICT Infrastructure in Finland
Author Simo Pietilä IT Manager, Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa. The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS) is a federation of municipalities established in the year 2000 in Finland’s southern coast. Its 1.5 million inhabitants are serviced by 21 hospitals, which employ close to 20,000 health...
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IT and Nordic Healthcare
Drivers of healthcare IT in the Nordic countries follow the general pattern in the OECD – in terms of the need for patient-centricity, service-orientation and cost-effectiveness. All Nordic countries rank high in terms of e-Health readiness indicators, as well as healthcare and IT/Internet infrastructure. Indeed, the World Economic Forum’s...
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Healthcare in the Nordic Countries
Health systems in the Nordic countries have a long heritage. They are principally financed by public funds or compulsory health insurance schemes. All countries, however, require co-payments by patients for hospital care and medicines. The Nordic healthcare system is especially well-established with regard to primary and preventive healthcare....
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Healthcare IT Policy in the Nordic Countries
HITM: The Nordic Region is Seen to have Some of the Most Advanced Healthcare Systems in Europe. What do You Think are the Reasons for this ? Pentti Itkonen (PI): Nordic systems are taxation based, locally administrated and every citizen has equal access to services. The markets have only a little influence on the functions of health...
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EAHM
Meeting of the Board of the EAHM in Krakow(Poland) The first meeting of the year of the EAHM Board took place at the beginning of June in Krakow, in Poland. The delegates were happy, not only to be able admire this magnificent town in fine weather, but also to participate in the festivities of its 750th anniversary. On 5 June 1257,...
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A Hospital Promoting Mental Health
- ‘Are you feeling sad?’ – ‘Do you know anybody who has these symptoms: withdraws from friends and family, is turning careless about personal appearance, lies awake at night, or stays in bed all day.’ - ‘Are you worried about a friend?’ -‘Is anyone you know hearing voices?’ Stavanger University hospital runs ads like this in the regional...
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Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton
The award-winning Queen Mary’s Hospital at Roehampton breaks new ground in the design of adult, mental health, in-patient facilities in the UK. Uniquely, it provides mental health facilities that are integrated within a community hospital setting. A decision based initially on economics has come to signify a step change in attitudes to mental health,...
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Managing Healthcare Waste Together
Waste management is one of the biggest challenges for our society now and in the future. Since one of the main factors in economic growth is consumption it follows that waste volumes generally increase along with this growth. The healthcare sector in Ireland has increased its business activity just like any other industrial sector. The growing population and...
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The Portuguese Healthcare System
The state of Portuguese hospitals at the beginning of the decade made significant gaps apparent: quality control was absent, and there was no standardised information system to facilitate the control of the performance of managers and healthcare establishments. These managers did not have any effective incentives, or the autonomy necessary, especially...
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