Author: Hindrik Vondeling, PhD, Associate Professor, Institute for Public Health, Department of Health Economics, J.B. Winsloews Vej 9B DK 5000 Odense C, Denmark Email: [email protected] In many countries of the industrialised world, healthcare systems are faced with a common challenge for the future. An ageing...
READ MOREAuthor: Alfred Simon , PhD; Director of the Academy of Ethics in Medicine, Göttingen, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.aem-online.de/ Ethics consultations are becoming increasingly important in German hospitals. For example, hospitals must offer such consultations to qualify for KTQ certification...
READ MOREAuthors: Dr Arnaud Hansske, General Director of Arras Hospital; France Email : [email protected] Jean-François Cros, Deputy Director of Arras Hospital Email : [email protected] Alain Lecherf, Initiator of the project, Arras hospital, like all healthcare...
READ MOREAuthors: Dr Alain Pradignac, Therapeutic Nutrition Unit, CHU – Hautepierre, France Email : [email protected] Pr Jean Louis Schlienger, President of the Feeding-Nutrition Liaison Committee, CHU – Hautepierre, France Email : [email protected] Feeding,...
READ MOREAuthor: Xenophon Karageorgiou Managing Director, General Hospital of Thebes E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] It happens all too often, although illogical, that a relocation from an old and smaller hospital to a new and bigger one takes place without modifications on the operational basis of departments...
READ MOREAuthor: Professor Wolfgang Riedel Scientific Director of the Institute for Hospital Studies Braunschweig, Germany www.ifk-braunschweig.de [email protected] A growing number of hospitals are finding it either necessary or desirable to replace their telephone systems. When the opportunity...
READ MOREAuthor: Georges Zanellato Email: [email protected] The problem of “no show” of patients to fixed appointments is an issue that a lot of healthcare organisations have to face. Moreover, it keeps increasing because it is self-perpetuating, and the overbooking principle, while helping, does not really solve the problem....
READ MOREAuthor: Christian Hay Delegate Healthcare, GS1 Switzerland *On 16th February 2007, the Department of Health in the UK decides to join GS1 for all the NHS activities. In France a similar approach is currently in deployment by University Hospitals. Th e 6th conference of the GS1 HUG™ (Healthcare User Group) took...
READ MOREAuthor: Dr. John Halamka, Chief Information Officer, Harvard Medical Faculty, USA Medical School E-Mail: [email protected] Over the past 5 years, payers and providers in Massachusetts, US have implemented web-based, handheld and electronic medical record integrated e-prescribing. As a...
READ MOREContact Information: Kees H. Polderman, MD, PhD Vice Chairman, Department of Intensive Care University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands Tel.: +3130 2503261 Fax: +3120 7620294 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] In recent years the issue of temperature management...
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