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Document Process Solutions in European Healthcare Environments

Posted on: Friday, 2 September 2005, 06:00 CDT

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c23563) has announced the addition of Document Process Solutions in European Healthcare Environments to their offering.

Many of the nations within the European Union have large, publicly-funded healthcare systems that are often the envy of the world in terms of ubiquity, standard of care, and accessibility of treatment for a variety of health conditions. The United Nations has recognised this fact consistently, naming the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) as one of the world's best medical systems.

At the same time, however, national healthcare systems face significant challenges in maintenance and administration. The sheer size, volume of services provided, areas of speciality and patient requirements have created a tremendous volume of administrative, operational, and technical data requiring rapid access and archival to deliver an effective healthcare delivery system. Furthermore, while the systems tend to be large and complex to administer, they face the additional task of allocating fundamentally scarce healthcare treatments to residents of EU states in a consistent, high-quality, reliable, and accessible fashion.

As a result of these challenges, many EU states have invested significant personnel and financial resources into developing more effective systems of delivery, information archival, and retrieval. This document examines some of the broad initiatives being undertaken across European healthcare delivery systems, and suggests strategies for integrating low-cost, low-maintenance office document infrastructure into health delivery environments to improve productivity, efficiency, and accessibility.

Topics covered in this report include:

-- The IT Challenge

-- The Popularity of Business Process Redesign

-- The Missing Link

-- Seizing the Opportunity

-- Individual Document Processes Ripe for Network Document Solutions

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c23563

Source: Business Wire

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