Editorial
Welcome to IHF’s new website. We are excited by the opportunity this new website presents us, our partners and visitors to the site. Here you will find regularly updated links to our newsletters, publications, upcoming events, projects and activities.
The Health System Knowledge Base is a useful new service available on the International Hospital Federation’s website to visitors. With this tool, you can access high quality health resources, organized by region or by topic directly from our site. We invite you to take advantage of this facility in your research and contact us if you would like to contribute to it.
Alongside the launch of our new website, comes a new phase for our scientific journal World Hospitals and Health Services. The journal is now available electronically in a reader friendly format. Subscribers are able to read the journal online as if they were reading a paper journal or download it to their E-book readers. The new format also has an automatic feedback function, where readers can rate articles and post comments. We are pleased to offer this tool to readers of our journal and look forward to hearing your thoughts.
The website will act as an efficient communication tool which will enable not only greater coverage and visibility of IHF events, projects and activities, but will also facilitate ease of communication between our members. The global nature of our network means that our members are not able to directly communicate face-to-face on a regular basis. Our new website aims to bridge this gap by providing a dynamic platform where members can meet online and discuss, blog and comment on pertinent issues facing healthcare. We strongly encourage you to make use of this privileged tool.
We invite you to take a look around the website and familiarize yourself with the work being undertaken by IHF. Be sure to visit regularly for the latest news, activities, publications and events information.