ITALY
| Azienda Ospedaliera di Varese (Lombardia) The Varese Hospital Trust (Azienda Ospedaliera di Varese) is composed by 5 hospital centres covering the northern part of Varese Province, with a population of around 250,000 people scattered over a mostly mountainous area (over a total population of the Province amounting to 900,000 inhabitants) and the city of Varese (around 100,000 inhabitants):
The Departments are further divided in 71 smaller operational units. Overall, the Varese Hospital Trust employs 4,400 people. |
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| Ospedale di Tolmezzo Sant’Antonio Abate (Friuli Venezia Giulia) The Tolmezzo hospital belongs to the Agency for Health Services n.3. This Agency governs a territory of 2,500 square kilometres (equal to 1/3 of the Friuli Venezia Giulia regional territory) mostly mountainous, with 7 independent valleys. Its total population is of about 72,000 inhabitants, most of which live in small towns of around 1,000 citizens. The Tolmezzo hospital manages 6,000 hospitalizations per year, 2,000 of which are in general medicine, 3,100 in surgery, 750 in paediatrics and 150 in emergency medicine or intensive care. The hospital not only deals with patients from Northern Friuli (“Alto Friuli”) but also takes care of patients coming from other Health Agencies of the Region, such as those of Middle Friuli (“Medio Friuli”) (around 1,600 hospitalizations each year). The medical personnel of the Tolmezzo hospital includes:
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FRANCE
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble The University Hospital Centre of Grenoble (CHUG) is one of the four University hospital centers of Rhône-Alpes. It groups four different buildings for approximately 2,000 beds capacity. This hospital has to take care of the cases of the Isère region, but as it is close to the Alpes it’s very exposed to winter sport injuries. Grenoble is on the boundary of the Alpes and close to the main ski stations of this region. Most of the skiing injuries from the resorts near Grenoble are treated in this hospital which means that every year more than 10% of the annual 80,000 emergency cases are foreign persons. The staff of this hospital regroups 1,600 health care professionals and more than 7,000 employees. This hospital treats different types of ailments but is specialized in:
DPPR (RSPR): the hospital is a site of the Rhône-Alpes regional platform and amongst the first to feed the platform with information on patients. From a technical point of view, the IT system of the hospital is the one that manages the PEPS part of the SISRA’s Platform. SPIRAL, this service provides an interconnection between the hospital, fire department and the emergency ambulance service. When the fire department or the emergency ambulance service takes a patient, they send information to the hospital in order to prepare the arrival and provide the best treatment. On a smaller aspect this hospital is already part of an alpine region project. The neurosurgery and the shock status treatment service are part of the alpine region trauma center which regroups different health centers of the area. |
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SLOVENIA
| Bolnišnica Golnik The University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases Golnik has 7,000–8,000 clinical admissions and 46,000 outpatient consultations a year. 40% of patients come from Gorenjska region and 60% from other regions of Slovenia. BGK covers an area of 1,000,000 inhabitants. The University Clinic employs 37 doctors and 275 health care professionals. Clinic facilities involves a wide spectrum of methodology and assessment tools dealing with respiratory, sleep, biochemical, immunological and pathological laboratories to provide an interdisciplinary approach to research and clinical management of our patients. The laboratories follow the guidelines of standards, work with respect to fixed national and international criteria and are included in the external quality control. Relevant medical specialties are: Internal Medicine, Pulmonology and Surgery. The Hospital Information System (HIS) is based on Oracle database Version 9i. The user interface of the HIS is written in Delphi (Borland). HIS is connected to two other laboratory systems and two diagnostic systems. Hospitals internet access is carried out using an optical cable. Data transfer rate is 100 Mb/s each direction. |
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Splosna Bolnišnica Izola General Hospital Izola medical departments include:
SBI is a teaching hospital for the nearby nursing school and partly for PD education of doctors. Hospital information system allows outpatient management, some diagnostic procedure and laboratory exams management. It allows the tracking of all clinical episodes during the patient’s admission in every ward and for any kind of treatment. The integration with the RIS/PACS (Radiology Information System) has been also achieved in order to allow the remote visualization/consultation of the radiology analysis and referrals. Transfer of images is limited to one partner hospital. |
SWITZERLAND
| Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève Established in 1995, the HUG are among Switzerland’s leading hospital groups. As local hospitals for Geneva’s population, they also act as a reference centre for Geneva, Switzerland and the world. Covering a wide recruitment area, the HUG undertake more than 750,000 consultations a year. They also total some 780,000 days of hospital care. The high number of medical interventions and the resulting experience underwrite security. The HUG are present throughout the Geneva canton with four hospital sites and around 40 outpatient departments:
The Geneva University hospitals take part in the graduate and postgraduate training of the medical and health professions. The HUG, with the medical faculty of the Geneva University, have established programmes in four priority areas:
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GERMANY
| Klinikum Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen Hospital is a major primary and secondary health care centre with 505 beds, run by the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It is situated in the German Alps approx. 90km South of Munich and provides health care for the local population as well as for the inhabitants of the surrounding districts. It is the academic teaching hospital of the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University, Munich. Approx. 20,000 in-patients and more than 30,000 out-patients are treated every year. As Garmisch-Partenkirchen and its surroundings are well-known winter and summer tourist resorts, and due to its position close to the Austrian border there is a substantial part of external and international patients as well. The hospital is especially and widely known for its expertise in
Furthermore there are main departments for Anaesthesiology, General, visceral, thoracic and endocrine Surgery, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Pediatrics and Neonatalogy, Pathology, Radiology, Urology and Vascular Surgery. ENT-Surgery, Oral and Facial Surgery, Ophtalmological Surgery and Orthopedic Surgery are performed by attending physicians. |
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