HOPE hub HOPE hub consists in a small group of hospitals, each of them from a different country committed to work together, meeting and exchanging on comparative issues under HOPE umbrella. HOPE hub is a hospital top management meeting. For that purpose the Chief Executive Officers or members of the top management are invited to take part to the meeting, bringing with them experts from their hospital that change depending on the topic of the meeting. The topic for the meetings is agreed by the participants and the country that organizes the meeting proposes the agenda on the agreed topic. At the moment the countries involved into the project are the following:
Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain and the UK. Meetings and topics
| Date |
Place |
Topics |
2006
December 3-5 |
Budapest, Hungary |
Financing, Research, Teaching, Human resources, European policies, Centres of excellence, Patient Safety, Public private partnership |
2007
May 20-22 |
Luton,
United Kingdom |
Set of indicators, Financing: cost improvement programmes; Purchasing: drugs and medical devices; Quality: patient centredness and patient safety; Human resources: absenteeism, Governance: decentralisation within the institution |
2007
December 13-14 |
Viareggio,
Italy |
National healthcare system, presentation of hospitals, presentation of one and more best practices the hospitals have implemented |
2008
May 8-9 |
Palma de Majorca,
Spain |
Patient Safety |
2008
September 8 |
Brussels,
Belgium |
Patient Safety |
2009
April 16-17 |
Arras,
France |
New Technologies and Patient Safety |
| During the meeting in Arras, there was an agreement that the next two years of the hub should be devoted to the eHealth topics and should target 10-20 hospitals. |
2009
November 5-6 |
Porto,
Portugal |
Clinical Intelligence |
Presentations hub Porto
 Centre Hospitalier d’Arras
Hospital Oporto Information Systems
Informatión systems in Baearic Hospitals
Luton and Dunstable Hospital
Mater Dei Hospital, Malta
NORMATICA Business Intelligence Healthcare Framework
ORACLE French Diabetes Program
ORACLE Healthcare Interoperability
SECTRA Radiology Management
Turku University Hospital IT Solutions and services
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Activities   Hospitals in the 27
EU Member States
Quality of care
Human resources Public health Hospital, health care
and internal market e-Health Cross-border
co-operation Green hospitals Networking
HOPE hub
PATH
Health Promoting Hospitals |
