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Health and the City
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it abundantly clear that healthcare systems worldwide need significant transformation and change. There is an urgent need for new models of care to improve patient outcomes and be better prepared for future health crises similar to the recent pandemic. With the increasing prevalence of chronic disease and a...
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Clinic Without Walls (CoW): Care Anytime, Anywhere
Clinic Without Walls (CoW) is a strategic innovation programme. CoW, which is part of Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s (TTSH)’s digital transformation journey - The Hospital without Walls aims to redesign care, digitalise processes and transform our workforce to deliver person-focused care beyond our clinics into the community (Soh et al. 2020)....
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Urban Health and Wellbeing in the Contemporary City
This paper explores and debates the intricate connection between our built environ- ment and an increasingly technocentric approach to distinguish health and wellbeing from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors profess the dire need for rethinking the ‘smart’ within the city by reconsidering models of urban development and focusing ...
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How to Make a Sustainable Healthcare Business in a Low-Income Setting
Investor Chris McCahan offers insights from recent client case studies that shed light on how private healthcare companies can succeed commercially in the long term when operating in a low-income setting. Some tips? Look beyond borders for the best global practices, align the company’s mission with broader public health goals, and be open to innovations. ...
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The Future of Healthcare Architecture and the Battle Against COVID-19 and Climate Change
The COVID-19 pandemic presented a major challenge to healthcare systems across the globe. As the world continues to fight this battle during the fourth wave, HealthManagement.org spoke to Daniela Pedrini, President of the International Federation of Health Engineering (IFHE), on healthcare’s response to COVID-19, changes healthcare systems...
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The Future of Healthcare: One Million [Interconnected] Homes Initiative
An ageing society and global health crises have increasingly meant that people are spending more time at home than ever before. While homes are thought to be “safe” environments, people – especially those who are aged or health-compromised – face multiple dangers such as falls, cuts, burns and drowning and increasingly, mental illness stemming from...
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Developing Connected Healthcare Systems and Accelerating Digital Transformation
With urban populations increasing worldwide and technology making smart cities a reality, there is a great potential of improving healthcare services by expanding them beyond the hospital walls. Both immediate health emergencies, such as COVID-19, and long-term strategies can be addressed with new, tech-driven solutions supported by enhanced community...
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With the URIS, the Moscow Health Care Department Has Laid the Foundations for Connected Care
300 modalities, 1500 radiologists, 1500+ technicians, 10,000 referring physicians, 500,000 patients… Moscow’s Unified Radiological Information System (URIS) and its unified digital infrastructure have become a ‘one stop shop’ to access patient imaging data across the megalopolis and beyond. And a core component of URIS is the unified Enterprise...
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The Next Normal of Healthy Cities
Building a Resilient City: Implementing technologies that help predict, prevent and respond to health risks The COVID-19 pandemic has fuelled the adoption of data and digital technologies to improve the resilience of cities, regions and countries. These tools have been leveraged across each component of the sense-predict-respond model that...
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Patient Safety As Gold Standard in the Era of Big Data
Affidea launches an innovative Business Intelligence Tool for real-time radiation dose monitoring to improve patient care. Key Points The use of a new technology built on GE Healthcare’s Applied Intelligence platform and imaging insights. Better data integration and analysis through the use of the Affidea Dose Excellence programme,...
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