Health Leadership in Europe Promoted in Exclusive Media Partnership

The European Association of Hospital Managers (EAHM) and Health Management.org Enter New Agreement

EAHM and HealthManagement.org will partner to foster healthcare management and leadership in Europe, by leveraging in mutual expertise and network.

With both parties supporting the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration and sharing of excellence, the collaboration will put the development of cutting-edge leadership and management firmly at the centre of the European healthcare landscape at a time when the sector faces critical challenges in sustainability and IT implementation.

Appointed as official media, HealthManagement.org will grant each EAHM member the privilege of subscription and access to the media platform, relay any activities and announce and cover the association events.

Furthermore, EAHM will actively participate in HealthManagement.org – The Journal content via t he curatorship of the Executive Management editorial board, attracting individuals in management, leadership and health management academia. This will allow EAHM to engage with many concerned stakeholders and provide a unique opportunity to reach out to a wider audience and to further its objectives.

Speaking about the new partnership at the 26th EAHM Congress in Bologna in October, Gerry O’Dwyer, EAHM President said:

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“It is with great excitement that we have entered into a new partnership with HealthManagement.org. We look forward to distributing the publication widely to all our members across the 25 associations in Europe.”

“The partnership will provide an additional platform for the EAHM to influence and comment on new emerging standards of care and healthcare management processes,” EAHM President Gerry O’Dwyer said. “It will further enable us to continue the European wide debate and critically influence European legislators and decision makers, together with the World Health Organization (WHO ), in that process. This collaboration will provide an opportunity to promote and discuss our activities in fostering innovation and research, and the on-going development of academic and other strategic partnership across Europe and beyond.”

“The HealthManagement.org journal will lead the way forward by supporting the challenges we have and will give us a huge opportunity to exchange information across all of our member associations and worldwide.”

The EAH M will work closely with HealthManagement.org in promoting its organisational objectives through its ongoing programme of international conferences and seminars. It will additionally provide the opportunity for European wide publication of articles, key-notes and comments.

Marc Hastert, EAHM Vice President, Luxembourg said: “We have signed an important agreement with HealthManagement.org to become our official publication for the years to come. We aim for good communication and visibility of our association, and believe that it can provide us a platform where we can present our activities and views on the management of hospitals in Europe in an efficient way.”

Klaus Koller, EAHM Board Member and President of the Editorial Committee, Austria reassured that the EAHM could contribute to HealthManagement.org - The Journal in a constructive manner.

“As hospital managers we want to contribute to HealthManagement.org with our operational k now-how, expertise and in-depth knowledge. We believe that this widely distributed, great journal is a fantastic platform to conduct our public relations and to disseminate our message broadly to our members,” he said.

The European Association of Hospital Managers

The European Association of Hospital Managers (EAHM) was founded in 1970. It is the umbrella association for 28 leading hospital management associations in 25 European countries representing over 16, 000 individual members. The EAHM serves explicitly and exclusively the public interest and does not pursue any political, economical nor confessional goals. The organization is one of the world's largest hospital management associations. It represents both the hospital managers of public and private hospitals in the European Union and at international level.

Objectives

• to promote the professional competence and responsibility of managers and senior employees in hospital and public health management in the European countries;
  
• to foster the growing together of the hospital systems of the European countries as the basis for the construction of a Social Europe.
  
• to seek to influence European Union legislation affecting the hospital sector;
  
• to collectively represent the hospital management profession and its interests in the competent European organisations and international bodies.