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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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Innovation award for Telediabetes |
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Written by Marco Zeimet
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Sunday, 09 November 2008 |
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It has been reported thatDGTelemed justified its decision by stating that the first results emerging from the mainstreamed application of Telediabetes confirm in an impressive way the high potential by this telemedicine driven care network to enhance the efficient and sustainable care for diabetes patients in Germany while parallely showing that care costs would reduce.
TeleDIAB has now been mainstreamed in Germany, starting in 2007. e-health-com further informs that currently 520 patients are participating in the care scheme, who are followed up by 276 medical practices. The network has been able to have the following outcomes after 12 months of care operations: the participating diabetes patients have seen a drop of HbA1c of 0.9 percent und rerduced their weight on average by 1.6 kilograms. Cost reductions of 1840 Euros per patient per year have been generated. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 09 November 2008 )
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Luxembourg eHealth - News |
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Written by Marco Zeimet
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Sunday, 25 May 2008 |
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20100612: 20100110: Der "Health Guide" wird zukünftig von GE Health Care und Intel gemeinsam vermarktet. Der Health Guide ist eine Gesundheitstechnologie, ein Gerät das konzipiert wurde für den Einsatz im Bereich "Telegesundheit + Versorgung zu Hause". Konkret hilft es Patienten mit chronischen Leiden ihre Gesundheit besser zu handhaben und zu steuern. Die Überwachungseinheit des "Health Guide" erlaubt es dem Patienten zum einen mit einem Gesundheitsberufler sich auszutauschen und zu kommunizieren, auf der anderen Seite gibt sie dem Kliniker Zugang zu aktuellen Patientendaten. Nach Angaben von Intel betreibt der "Health Guide" Apparat auch Anwendungen für personalisiertes Versorgungsmanagement. Dies würde beinhalten eine Funktion zur Vitalzeichensammlung, zum Versand einer Erinnerungsbotschaft, zu Erhebungen, zur Patientenaufklärung mittels mulitmedialer Anwendungen sowie zur Kommunikation mittels Videokonferenzen.
Referenzen: 20081016: Communiqué de presse "Le ministre Jeannot Krecké assiste au lancement du Cluster BioHealth " read more
20080605: Le Luxembourg investit dans la recherche bio-médicale. Luxembourg invests in biomedial research. An ambitious initiative with first-rate partners and a five-year investment of 140 million euros is expected to help Luxembourg develop cutting-edge skills and expertise in molecular medicine. Read more Dr Bill Crounse MD, Microsoft's worldwide health senior director comments on experiences made in Luxembouig at this year's Medetel 2008. Read more about it by clicking here .. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 12 June 2010 )
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eHealth Benchmarking in Europe |
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Written by Admin
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Sunday, 27 April 2008 |
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A pan-European surevey and analysis on the use of ICT among General Practitioners A pan-European survey and related analysis on the current state of use of ICT in GP practices has been published on the EU Commission's webpage "Europe's Information Society". The report that has been prepared by Bonn-based Empirica research group, shows for 29 European health systems, including Luxembourg, the state of advancement of ehealth based clinical practice as well as uptake of ICT in GP medical practices. From a Luxembourg health care system point of view, the merit of the study consists in objectively benchmarking the implementation stage of the current Luxembourg ehealth infrastructure with the other 28 competitor health systems. (See: especially the Country Brief report for Luxembourg). Other sources of information: |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 12 May 2008 )
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