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Patient Empowerment: European benchmark |
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Written by Marco Zeimet
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Tuesday, 31 March 2009 |
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Study on the Empowerment of the European Patient Denmark has the most empowered patients around Europe. So says the report Empowerment of the European Patient - Options and Implications”, published today in Brussels. The top ranked countries are a good mix of Western and central - Eastern European countries. The report finds that money is not the only thing that matters when it comes to patient empowerment – the issue is about will and perception of whom the healthcare system aims to serve!
The report groups 18 indicators of empowerment into four categories: Patients’ rights, Information, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Financial incentives. Each sub-discipline is weighted for importance to provide the overall score of max 1000 points.
The individual category leaders are as follows:
Patients’ rights: Switzerland
Information: Denmark
Health Technology Assessment (HTA): Denmark and the UK
Financial incentives: Belgium, Germany and Switzerland
Luxemburg, 16th place: A provider catalogue with quality ranking is needed to enable patients’ choice! For more information, the Report and the Matrix: Health Consumer Powerhouse
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 31 March 2009 )
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Telehealth an issue in the 2009 elections |
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Written by Marco Zeimet
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Monday, 30 March 2009 |
CSV promotes Telehealth The currently governing political party in Luxembourg, the Chrestlesch Sozial Vollekspartei (CSV) pledges to enhance the care services delivery in primary care settings by promoting telehealth type applications. It therefore plans to extend the use of enabling technologies in the care at home, in order to - more specifically - facilitate the transmission of personal health data to doctors or health professionals for daily assessment and follow-up. The original pledge in favour of telehealth and telemonitoring applications can be viewed in the 2009 election programme of the CSV (pages 57 and 58) [.pdf]. Please find here after an example of a telehealth application: HomeTelehealth Ltd video on Telehealth at Home |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 31 March 2009 )
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EHCI 2008: European ehealth benchmark |
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Written by Admin
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Saturday, 15 November 2008 |
The Research Consortium Health Consumer Powerhouse recently published a the European Health Consumer Index (EHCI 2008). A new benchmark subcategory has been added to the EHCI 2008 Index: ehealth. The overall 2008 winner in this subcategory is Danmark, scoring 100 out of 100 points, followed by the United Kingdom and The Netherlands, both achieving 92/100. Luxembourg obtained 42/100 in this benchmark, ex aequo with Belgium, the Czech Republik, Italy, Portugal and Slovakia.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 17 November 2008 )
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