The Belgian healthcare system is a mix of mandatory national insurance and private medicine, a system of collective agreements between healthcare providers and insurance companies (national healthcare funds), and regulations issued by the public authorities. The Ministry of Public Health is responsible for defining laws on hospital programmes, the...
READ MOREDr.Pavel Trnka /Prague EMS,Czech Republic Dr. Jiri Danda (Head Physician), Dr. Milana Pokorná and Dr. Daniel Kobr, RRU Physicians, Prague EMS Dr. Jaroslav Kratochvíl, Hospital Physician, Dr. Ondrej Franek , Dispatch Centre Physician, Prague EMS Dr. Jaroslav Valásek , Chief Medical Officer, Prague EMS Ing. Petr...
READ MOREAuthor Jan Pejchal / ICT Manager,Masaryk Hospital in Usti nad Labem Regional Health Corp. Martin Zeman, Martin Hostas Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic [email protected] Masaryk Hospital in Usti nad Labem Regional Health Corporation (“Krajska zdravotni, a.s.”) consists of 5 hospitals with a long tradition...
READ MOREHospital (E)Hospital is the world’s only hospital management publication in three languages: Published in English and executive summaries in French and German. With a distribution of over 19,000 copies and published bimonthly, (E)Hospital provides the key actors in healthcare management in Europe with the foremost, up-to-date information...
READ MOREAuthor Luis Barcia, Miguel Ortiz Garcia, Bernardo Vila Roig, Alfonso Perez Cervello Torrevieja Salud , Spain, Microsoft The Torrevieja Hospital pursues a high efficiency management of its recourses, as well as the maximum level of services offered to its patients. And here “Florence” plays the key...
READ MOREAuthor Oscar Ezinmo, Carmen Jimenez / Servei de salut de les illes balears, Spain A stroke is an acute vascular event that is associated with bleeding into the brain or decreased blood flow part of the brain. Both hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes may be treatable. Hemorrhagic strokes may be amenable to surgery (i.e. to...
READ MOREAuthor Peeter Ross, Kelli Podoshvilev/ East Tallinn Central Hospital, Estonia Much attention has been paid to the development of the functionality and user friendliness of the electronic patient record (EPR) inside healthcare institutions. However, secure distribution of me - dical data outside the organisation still remains...
READ MOREAuthor Marc Monballieu, Donald Claeys / AZ Maria Middelares, Belgium When a doctor diagnoses cancer, a “Multidisciplinary Oncological Consultation” is recommended and in some cases obligatory, in accordance with the oncological care programmes in Belgium. This entails a consultation between all the doctors concerned...
READ MOREAuthor Tatjana Dostalova, Jana Zvarova, Karel Zvara, Michaela Seydlova, Karel Chleborad, Vaclav Kaspar / E uroMISE Centre, Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Pediatric Stomatology, Second Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and University Hospital Motol; Department of Medical Informatics,...
READ MOREAuthor Aissa Khelifa, Stephane Thiroux, Jean-Philippe Masson Organisation(s): Health Management Solutions, France; Observatoire de la Senologie, France; Federation Nationale Des Medecins Radiologues (fnmr) French regulations for breast cancer screening have allowed for the coexistence of both an organised...
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