• France - Remote Wound Care Pilot in Caen

    From September 2010, a regional network of skin wound telecare will operate in Caen, Normandy, France. The plan is part of the government's drive for hospital reform and the telecare system will eventually be extended to more French cities. The brainchild of Dr. Dompmartin from the dermatology unit of the Caen University Hospital and Dr. Blanchere,...

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  • Evidence-Based Design - A Key to Collaborative Innovation of Business Models in European Healthcare

    How the built environment in healthcare influences output in terms of patient safety, efficiency, quality of care, staff turnover, total economy etc, is often overlooked. Perhaps this is because hospitals are different to "normal" companies; the building and the operation in public owned institutions in complex welfare models is often organised in...

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  • Evidence-Based Design of a Patient-Safe Environment

    Evidence-based design (EBD) is the process of basing decisions about the built environment on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes. Healthcare leaders around the world are incorporating design elements into the built environment of new or renovated facilities that have demonstrated positive outcomes. Just as medicine has increasingly...

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  • Overview of the Swiss Healthcare System

    Switzerland's hospital system is subject to change. Cost containment, competitiveness, transparency of service quality, need for manpower and trend to outpatient care are the main constraints that hospitals face today. Political decision making like the introduction of diagnosis related groups (DRG) further advances this process, which will intensify...

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  • Editorial

    Des Valeurs Et Des Expériences Partagées Pour sa 23ème édition, le congrès de l'Association Européenne des Directeurs d'Hôpitaux réunira une nouvelle fois plusieurs centaines de managers hospitaliers venus de toute l'Europe et sera sans nul doute l'occasion de travaux riches... Read more

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  • La Conception Des Hôpitaux Et La Question Environnementale

    Par Harry McQue Avec la diminution toujours plus importante des quotas d'énergie alloués aux hôpitaux, les concepteurs doivent trouver de nouvelles manières pour réduire notre empreinte carbone. Savez-vous qu'un kilowatt d'énergie électrique produite n'importe où dans le monde a une empreinte d'environ 1 kg de CO2 ? Il est grand temps que des...

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  • La Réduction des Effectifs Est-elle Une Façon Efficace de

    Controler Les Depenses de Sante a l Hospital? Par Massimilliano Piacenza, Gilberto Turati Les coûts hospitaliers représentent la part la plus importante des dépenses totales de santé. L'un des principaux objectifs étant de contrôler la croissance des dépenses de santé, la réduction des effectifs hospitaliers est un phénomène qui caractérise...

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  • Evidenz-Basiertes Design

    Ein Schlussel Zur Kollaborative Innovation Von Geschaftsmodellen in Der Europaischen Gesundehitssorge Von Pernille Weiss Terkildsen Knappe Ressourcen stellen für Gesundheitswesen und Krankenhäuser in ganz Europa eine Herausforderung dar – nun beginnt die Jagd auf das optimale Geschäftsmodell. Wir müssen die Beziehungen zwischen der erbauten...

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  • Anwendungen der Telekardiologie

    Von Simonetta Scalvini Kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen spielen bei der allgemeinen Morbidität und Behinderung eine große Rolle, und stellen eine der wichtigsten Belastungen für unser Gesundheitssystem dar. Telemedizin kann den Druck auf medizinische Experten vermindern, da diese nur beschränkt zur Verfügung stehen können, und ihre Expertise auf...

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  • EU Affairs

    Organs Just over one in two Europeans would be prepared to donate an organ immediately after their death to help someone else according to a new pan-European survey conducted for the European Commission.   The results of the fieldwork, which involved over 26,000 people, revealed that 55 percent are happy to be donors, 27 percent...

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