Health
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Innovation in delivering healthcare
Owen McQuade talks to HSE Chief Information Officer Richard Corbridge about his role and the potential to transform the quality…
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Drivers for change in health
Dr Brian Turner explains why economics and demographics are changing the Health Service and suggests that government targets may be…
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Celebrating 40 years of the barcode: the Global Language of Business
Standardised systems can help to make healthcare more efficient and accurate, therefore improving the safety of patients. For 40 years,…
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Increasing dividends from health research
Health research delivers many practical benefits in addition to economic and employment returns. ‘At a time when everyone is focusing…
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Quality in healthcare
The experience of patients is the only way to assess standards in healthcare, says the Health Information and Quality Authority’s…
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Scalable clinical transformation
Kip Webb, Accenture’s Global Managing Director of Clinical Services, explains how handing responsibility to clinicians can improve the quality of…
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Delivering improved mental health services
Orla Barry, Director of Mental Health Reform, outlines how community-based services, an ethos of supporting recovery across the public sector,…
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Cutting the drugs bill
The Government has cut the bill for patent and off-patent drugs, and is targeting generic drugs next. Stephen Dineen reports.…
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Eamon O’Shea: New direction for dementia care
Professor Eamon O’Shea of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at NUI Galway outlines a new direction for dementia policy…
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Dealing with the health deficit
The publication of legislation to abolish the HSE, internal disputes between the HSE and the department and budgetary shortfalls have…
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