Hospital Benchmark Interview with Claudia De Pasquale english

Interview with Claudia De Pasquale – Senior Consultant Hospital Benchmark Italy Participation of Hospital Benchmark at the Conference "the new hospital", efficiency and competitiveness of hospitals between best practices and innovative business models, Rome, Italy, November 6, 2008 What is Hospital Benchmark and how does it work? Hospital Benchmark was founded in 2005 with the aim of supporting the competitiveness of hospitals through streamlining organizational and cost containment. Hospital Benchmark offers the opportunity to compare your performance with more than 100 hospitals in the world on a Web-based platform. The database was created "by hospitals for hospitals" because it is continually fed with information directly by hospital management of various countries worldwide (amongst them Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, Poland, France) and then verified by a team of experts. Which variables are taken into account for finding a Benchmark? The comparison group is chosen based on several variables ranging from the location (national, international, region), the type (University Hospital, private hospital, network structure) to the size of the hospital (all hospitals, hospitals of similar size). Depending on the objective you can choose a variable scale from the simple average up to the best 20%. Hospital Benchmark uses for its analysis, data like cost centers, the number of full time Equivalent (FTE) and ...