WHCC Europe - What do the British mean by "hit the target and miss the point?"
Prof. Gwyn Bevan, Professor of Management Science and Director of the MSc in Public Management and Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science talks about the best methods to improving the health care system.
WHCC Europe - Empowering the patient through Personal Health Records
Prof. Bjoern Bergh, Prof. of Medical Information Systems, University of Heidelberg; CIO/CTO, Heidelberg University Clinics; Vice President, ICMCC, discusses how personal health records can empower patients.
WHCC Europe - The mission of European health care
Paul Bartels - President Elect, European Society for Quality in Healthcare (ESQH), Denmark, discusses the mission of providing health care in the European system, which is funded mostly through public funds, and how it contrasts with the U.S. system.
Telecoaching in Abu Dhabi to battle obesity and Diabetes
Dr. Stefan Kottmiar, CEO of Ameda in Germany, discusses the company's telecoaching program in Abu Dhabi, which is seen as an effective method of battling obesity and diabetes.
Enacting smoking prevention and cessation programs in Nigeria
Emmanuel Odiase of the Smoke Free Foundation discusses how his organization is working in Nigeria to curb smoking through education, prevention and cessation programs.
Empowering the Patient: Pfizer's Disease and Care Management Programmes for Management of Patients With Chronic Conditions
Pfizer's disease and care management programmes implemented in Finland, Italy and UK aimed at empowering people with long-term conditions. This choice was made following the many efforts to improve the quality of health care for people with long term conditions. This was a result of the growing evidence supporting the inclusion of patient empowerment as key component of care, according to the Chronic Care model. The main difference among programmes implemented in the different countries is the telephone care versus the face-to-face care management intervention. All programmes have shown good results in terms of feasibility and efficacy, as well as satisfaction of all individuals involved, including GPs, care managers and patients. Significant mean reductions have been obtained in clinical outcomes like HbA1c and blood pressure values. Very promising results have also been registered in terms of life-style changes and medication compliance. Promoting "patient empowerment and self management" has proven to be effective and should be considered as the starting point for any primary care intervention.
Dr. Andrew Jones, Group Medical Director, Nuffield Health
As Nuffield Health works to develop quality and safety outcomes, Dr. Jones questions whether there is enough health care quality information across the health care systems to allow the public to increasingly choose who provides their health care.
Dr. Andreas Haaf, Managing Director, Healthways International GmBH, Germany
Four years after expanding from the United States to the global market, Healthways is in the third year of a program in Germany and other European countries that is helping 40,000 people better monitor and control thier health, helping to reduce hospital admissions and readmissions.
Andrea Fong - Verisk Health on predictive modeling
Verisk Health is working to cull data for risk adjustment and predictive modeling, something Andrea Fong, Vice President of Science and Clinical Analytics, at Verisk said the European Uniion is helping to perform better than the United States.
Chris Coloian, SVP, Global Business, Health Dialog
Chris Coloian, Senior Vice President, Global Business, Health Dialog on the companies mission and care management.
Michael Bruhnke - Aipermon
Mr. Bruhnke - explains the company's telemonitoring program, which allows patients to stay in their homes and have a medical facility track their health information.
Dr. Lodewijk Bos, President, ICMCC, Netherlands
What is Compunetics? Dr. Lodewjik, President, ICMCC, Netherlands. Explains.
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