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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Patient privacy between politics and practice
In all Health Information Exchange initiatives I’ve come across, discussions about patient privacy are taken very seriously and rightly so. Who needs to have access, how to manage patient consent, when to restrict patients’ access to their own records, all these issues are taking a long time to resolve. However, current live experience with patient privacy in practice sheds a quite different light on these discussions and makes you wonder whether the often political discussions …
Lean – Is it applicable to hospital process improvement?
Is Lean appropriate for hospital improvement? We see Lean contributing value to the hospital setting along three dimensions: 1. embed patient centric thinking; 2. analyze cause of failure as way to focus on improvement; 3. pledge commitment to perpetuate new improvement practices.
Cross-Border Healthcare in Europe
TEN4Health – Trans-European healthcare support network for Europe’s mobile citizen. This project will develop a service package which will improve access of mobile citizens to healthcare provision in other Member States, based on a secure web service and its integration into developing European eHealth networks. Its key components include: • pertinent information for citizens in their language at the point and time of treatment abroad • instantaneous verification of insurance status • electronification of reimbursement …
Can the US learn from the UK about primary care?
In the 13 November 2008 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine included an article by Dr Martin Roland, director of the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre in Manchester. He writes: “U.K. primary care physicians increasingly work in multidisciplinary teams, with nurses taking on an increasing proportion of the work. Nurses see patients with minor illnesses and assume responsibility for the routine management of chronic diseases. … “Having a single-payer system also …
