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Outsourcing Hospital Services : A Choice Reached After Lengthy Deliberation
Author Paul Tronchon, Consultant, Centre National d'Expertise Hospitalière and Younès Bénanteur, Hospital manager, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris The decision to outsource services is one of the most sensitive issues with respect to hospital management. This decision reaches the very heart of a medical establishment...
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Outsourcing : Hospitals Apply the Brakes on Costs
Author Heinz Kölking, Managing Director of the Diakonissen-Mutterhaus Rotenburg, President of the German Association of Hospital Directors Incessant pressure to reduce costs in the German health system, combined with a recent pay freeze announced by the country’s Minister for Health, Renate Schmidt, have forced hospitals to introduce measures...
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Outsourcing : A Company Perspective
Author Dr. Manfred Gehrtz, Managing Director, Endoscope Division, and Claudine Ahrens, Manager, Knowledge Management Europe/Hospital Management Services, Olympus Optical Co. (Europa) GmbH Three pilot projects by Olympus offer insight to the challenges, issues and benefits of outsourcing endoscopy departments. The agreements vary...
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Office for Health Management: Ireland
Author D enis D oherty The Office for Health Management was established in June 1997 by the Minister for Health and is funded by the Department of Health and Children. It emerged following the publication, in 1996, of a Management Development Strategy for the Health and Personal Social Services, which recommended...
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An Overview of CAWT in Ireland
Author Paul Robinson - CAWT Director General - Chief Executive Officer NEHB CAWT is the acronym for Cooperation and Working Together, a cross-border health care initiative initiated in 1992 with the signing of the “Ballyconnell Agreement” between the North Eastern and North Western Health Boards in the South of Ireland and the...
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Collaboration Between Hospitals and Primary Health Care in Norway
Author Bjørn Guldvog , MD PhD, Director General, Berit Eivi Nilsen, MSc, Deputy Director General, Christine Furuholmen, MSc, Senior Advisor; Division of Health Care and Social Services - Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs Because of long distances and a dispersed population, Norway needs a flexible health care...
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Crises of Success : Elder Care in Sweden
Author JoAnne Girard An Interview with Lennarth Johansson, Associate Professor, Research Leader, National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, Sweden Sweden has been successful in creating social conditions that have achieved one of the longest lifespans in the world. Their welfare system provides...
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Hospital Accreditation in France
Author Hervé Leteurtre , Quality Advisor for the Fédération Hospitalière de France The ruling of April 24, 1996, completed by the decree of April 7, 1997, forms the framework for legal proceedings for the accreditation of French hospitals. Following several other countries, hospitals and clinics in France were able...
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Mobile Connections in Healthcare
The turnover in the European healthcare industry will more than double over the next five years and mobile phone based medical services could even become the cornerstone of healthcare in future. Responding to this development, (E-)Hospital has decided to continue its IT supplement, which appeared for the first time in 2005. We would...
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€6 Billion for Health Research in Europe
The deadline for funding applications for health projects under the 7 th Framework Programme for Research is 19 April 2007 The European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development – FP7 for short – officially commenced on 1 January 2007. The programme, which will run from 2007 until 2013, has...
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