Management: Economics & Efficiency
01/12/2012
Cuts in services for patients are difficult to justify when opportunities exist to improve hospital efficiency
There are many ways in which hospitals could improve efficiency and reduce the need for cutbacks in services for patients, according to a major review of hospital efficiency …
12/20/2011
Process management for future hospitals
Architect Herbert Michael Küpper Dr-Ing from M+ management, demonstrates that full understanding of the working needs of a hospital is necessary to arrive at a successful new …
12/19/2011
‘Shopping’ as a growth strategy
Celenus regroups on the rehabilitation market and aims for the top through acquisitions, Susanne Werner reports …
12/19/2011
Major forces in hospital design and construction
RTKL, the architecture and design subsidiary of Arcadis, handles large hospital projects worldwide, with its medical equipment planning group providing specialist consulting on …
12/19/2011
US community hospital develops its own unique app
Accessing patient files on smartphones physicians can view laboratory and radiology reports, vital signs and all relevant patient data …
12/19/2011
Quantum leap
Moving from 6-slice scan to a 64 row CT, Vierzon Hospital steps up to advance functionalities and explores the potential for news types of examinations, John Brosky reports. …
10/20/2011
Organisation and technology as factors of success in A&E
Point of care technologies (POCT) have an important, quality enhancing, risk-reducing and cost-impacting role within the extremely time-critical medical decision structures of a …
10/19/2011
Personalized medicine could helpt to save 100 billion Euros
Despite huge increases in spending over the last three decades, progress in dealing with the most frequent and burdensome diseases is appalling. The EU Flagship Pilot IT Future of …
08/31/2011
Purchasing diagnostic systems
The acquisition of large diagnostic imaging equipment is clearly expensive – but further costs also result from their energy consumption and maintenance, as well as hidden costs …
08/31/2011
UK government topples the dinosaur
Led by the then Prime Minister Tony Blair, the United Kingdom’s Labour government proudly launched its National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in 2002, a forward-looking plan with …
08/18/2011
Variation in bowel reoperation rates prompts call for better quality
There is a large variation in unplanned reoperation rates after colorectal surgery in English NHS hospitals, finds a study published on bmj.com today. As such, researchers suggest …
08/01/2011
A real partnership, with older patients in a central role, is the way forward
Older patients and citizens should play a central role in the design and implementation of solutions for active and healthy ageing, in order to respect their rights and meet their …
07/06/2011
Paris Hospitals’ technology transfer arm generated EUR 17M revenues in 2010
One of the world’s leading public health establishments, AP-HP (Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris) generated EUR 17 million in revenues thanks to its technology transfer …
06/14/2011
Lab medicine is on the move, but where exactly is it going?
Facing the fundamental changes that laboratory medicine is undergoing, in early June Roche Diagnostics Deutschland GmbH invited 50 high-profile speakers to a six-day symposium to …
05/19/2011
IMS Institute Forecasts Global Spending on Medicines to Reach Nearly $1.1 Trillion by 2015
The IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics today reported that global spending for medicines will reach nearly $1.1 trillion by 2015, reflecting a slowing compound annual growth …
05/06/2011
How green is your hospital?
Sometimes small efforts can have a big effect. In a pilot project, a team at the University of Heidelberg is studying what are the real energy guzzlers in hospitals and what cost …
05/02/2011
The Crisis, Hospitals and Healthcare
The European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE) has been looking for the past year at the direct and indirect effects of the crisis on the European health systems. Its …
02/15/2011
Diagnosing the Carbon Footprint of Healthcare
After the Copenhagen Climate Summit, there has been an urge to reconsider the harm created by industries across the world. Healthcare is no exception to this; in fact the burden …
10/28/2010
The economic value of PET-CT - a scenario-based analysis
PET/CT is an established clinical tool especially for cancer-related diagnosis. This involves both initial diagnosis and follow-up examinations. There are other procedures, like …
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