Publications from HOPE on the looming crises in healthcare

Mediation in healthcare

Ageing health workforce - Ageing patients

The findings of the 31st HOPE Exchange Programme and the broad topic of “Ageing health workforce and ageing patients” were extensively discussed in Berlin during HOSPAGE, a conference an evaluation meeting on 12 and 13 June 2012. The report illustrates the contents and findings of HOSPAGE; it goes through the debates and results and gives notice of the solutions and situations identified by the HOPE Exchange Participants.

Better health- A shared challenge for hospitals and primary health care

The Crisis, Hospitals and Healthcare

Chronic diseases, a clinical and managerial challenge


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epSOS – the European eHealth Project

epSOS aims to design, build and evaluate a service infrastructure that demonstrates cross-border interoperability between electronic health record systems in Europe.
A large scale pilot has entered into operational mode.

"Cross-border eHealth Services

epSOS attempts to offer seamless healthcare to European citizens. Key goals are to improve the quality and safety of healthcare for citizens when travelling to another European country. Moreover, it concentrates on developing a practical eHealth framework and ICT infrastructure that enables secure access to patient health information among different European healthcare systems. epSOS can make a significant contribution to patient safety by reducing the frequency of medical errors and by providing quick access to documentation as well as by increasing acessibility of ones prescribed medicine also abroad. In emergency situations, this documentation  provides the medical personnel with life-saving information and reduces the (sometimes needless) repetition of diagnostic procedures.

The technical, legal and organizational concepts developed within the framework of the project are subject to an extensive practical testing phase which will last until the end of the project."

See http://www.epsos.eu

Ageing health workforce - Ageing patients

A publication from HOPE - European Hospital and Healthcare Federation
Findings from a conference on the effects that aging is having on healthcare systems across Europe


http://www.hope.be/05eventsandpublications/docpublications/90_ageing/90_HOPE_Publication-Ageing_October_2012.pdf