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Creating Stronger Bonds Between Health Managers And Clinicians
Managers and clinicians in health and social care are committed professionals working towards a common goal - achieving better patient outcomes - but tensions in the relationship can risk getting in the way of driving forward service improvement. Managers and clinicians, in whatever area of health and social care they work, are on the same side....
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Organisational Development: Achieving Change
A wanderer asks a woodcutter in the forest the way. The woodcutter says that he has so much to do that he has practically no time for explanations. The wanderer then asks him if he has ever thought to sharpen his axe. To which the woodcutter says that he has so much to do that he has absolutely no time for that sort of thing. (Anon.) A typical...
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Revolutionizing Orthopaedic Imaging
What are the main areas of EOS Imaging’s business interest? Bringing solutions to musculoskeletal radiology. Bone imaging has not seen a lot of innovation since the invention of x-ray more than a century ago, and bone imaging will not go much longer with just plain x-ray and recumbent CT. EOS, as a platform, offers pure radiographic imaging,...
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The Care Continuum
Thinking Digitally IT is critical to the way Philips designs, develops and brings to market our products and services. IT is not just internal to the company, but integral to what we do. As CIO, having transformed the IT organization internally to be much more agile, I started working on the digital strategy of the company – not just e-commerce and...
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Technology Supports Patients at Home
The European Union is not alone in facing unprecedented demographic changes (ageing population, low birth rates, changing family structures and migration) that will have an impact on several sectors. The European population is becoming old very quickly, and this situation is leading to a scenario in which support to the elderly will no longer be provided...
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A Life Course Approach to Cardiovascular Ageing
Although cardiovascular disease (CVD) is rare until middle age, it has long been known that the pathophysiological process of atherosclerosis, which ultimately results in disease, is initiated in childhood. In order to identify points of intervention early in the disease development process, well before the clinical manifestation of disease, it is...
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Design for Care: The Collaborative Challenge of Wellbeing in Later Llife
Our Shared Challenge We all know that we need to think differently about the health system in the 21st century if we are to meet the growing needs of the frail elderly. Not only is the demand for care outstripping the capacity of the state, but also the expectations of each new generation massively exceed that of the previous one. Are we thinking...
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Hospitals: Facing Austerity and Ageing
Global Challenges The major challenges faced by healthcare today are a result of both economic and demographic changes, palpable on a global level. Austerity measures that followed the crisis of 2008 affect all sectors in healthcare, with the exception of long term care (Kumar 2014) (see Figure 1). Future growth in healthcare expenditure will not...
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Smart Ageing International Research Centre
Smart Ageing International Research Center The Smart Ageing International Research Center was established on 1 October 2009 with the aim of promoting international cooperative research on “Smart Ageing” as explained below. It aims to encourage individuals and societies to cope effectively with the changes brought on by ageing, and to mature intellectually....
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Fostering Geriatric Medicine in Europe
People are living longer, partly due to advances in medicine. On the other hand, older people can be seen as a burden on health and social care. Please comment. First, longer lives should be seen as a success story, because it is the result of society being able to provide more healthy conditions throughout the lifespan, but also because we understand...
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