"Medicine & Health 2008"

Quality Management
Information Technology
Management for Non-Profit and Non-Governmental-Organisations

Management and Information Technology

Health systems of industrialised as well as developing countries all over the world are facing big challenges. Increasing financial shortfalls require efficient handling of scarce resources. The ongoing research in the health sector brings always new knowledge, the basis for innovative therapeutic and diagnostic possibilities, but the consequence is the need for continuing education of medical personnel and all those working in the health sector in order to assure the cost-efficient care of patients. Training in management should make it easier for everybody working in the health sector (including doctors) to take this challenging task.

Another very important topic is Quality Assurance. Training in this specialty should provide graduates with the necessary tools to handle the growing demand in the health sector and to provide increasingly responsible patients with high quality "State of the Art" care despite decreasing funds. Quality Assurance should ensure that the growing number of available diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities, as well as the increasing choice of providers are submitted to continuous quality control.

These training programmes are especially relevant for those wanting to work in the sectors Humanitarian Aid and Development Cooperation as above mentioned challenges are even more evident in these fields.

This main chapter is subdivided in two sections, "Quality management" and "Management for Non-Profit and Non-Governmental organizations": -Listed courses and programmes are meant to qualify health professionals as well as decision-makers in NPOs with leadership skills, they focus on (quality-) management, planning and controlling.