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Advanced Practice
MAXIMISING THE POTENTIAL OF THE MODERN RADIOGRAPHER WORKFORCE Successful delivery of radiology and radiotherapy services is reliant upon a multiprofessional workforce capable of delivering high-quality, patient-centred care in a timely and cost-effective manner. In the UK, the traditional relationship between the radiology and radiography...
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Exploring the Future of Radiology
ESR TO LAUNCH NEW JOURNAL, EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL Medicine is facing an increasing rhythm of innovation. Without any doubt, those medical specialties who will guide the innovation will have the best professional position. This is true also for medical imaging. The role of radiologists in the next decades depends on their...
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Sustainability in Hospital Design
AWARD-WINNING ZULEKHA HOSPITALS OFFERS INSIGHTS INTO SUCCESSFUL PROJECT MANAGEMENT One of the crucial elements in ensuring building sustainability is a fully developed Operation and Maintenance (O&M) plan. It comprises a set of planned activities that encompass not only technical aspects but also managerial, social, financial and institutional...
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Simulating Stress in Hospital Workflow
COMPUTER MODEL LOOKS AT ER FUNCTIONS, EVEN BEFORE IT’S BUILT With the cost of building a good hospital estimated at around $1 million per bed, it makes sense to test out new layout ideas before any actual construction gets underway. As a new hospital is an incredibly expensive endeavour, we used a software programme to test different...
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Hospital Readmissions and Machine Learning
The need to improve the efficiency of the healthcare services has emerged over recent decades and, especially, during the last few years with the economic and financial crisis, developed countries have been suffering The ageing population, the sector most affected by chronic diseases, is seeking better results when they need the healthcare services...
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Designing a Specialist Cardiologist Service for Rural Australia
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Australia. However, people living in rural and remote Australia are 44 percent more likely to die of heart disease than people living in urban areas. (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2011). Brisbane cardiologist, Rolf Gomes, decided to do something about this disparity by equipping a mobile cardiac...
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Supply Chain Management Success Story
Canadian Supply Chain Management Association Offers New Take on Standardising Costs and Processes Persuading surgeons to recognise the benefits of supply chain management in the operating room is no easy task. But Martin Montanti has done it. As vice-president for corporate services at Southern Health-Santé Sud, one of Manitoba’s five...
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How Comics Play a Role in Medicine
Jorge Muniz is an internal medicine physician assistant, illustrator, and author of Medcomic: The Most Entertaining Way to Study Medicine . Tell us a little bit about your background. How did you get into illustrating and then connect that to medicine? Although a career in the arts was something I thought about, when I started college...
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European Institute for Innovation Through Health Data (i-HD)
A new not-for-profit organisation, the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (i~HD), held its inaugural conference and public launch in March this year in Paris. This institute was formed in order to unite efforts to enable better uses of health data for the benefit of learning health systems and clinical research (The European...
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IT Outsourcing: The View From the Top
Black Book Market Research recently released insightful figures on attitudes toward IT outsourcing in healthcare. To remain solvent and technologically advanced Black Book said hospital executives realise they need to “evaluate and leverage next generation information and financial systems as an outsourced service” (Black Book, 2015). The company found...
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