• “Help! My Patient Has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy”

    How should you handle a chronic ventilator user admitted to your ICU with acute critical illness? A personal observation and reflection on how to handle a chronic ventilator user and suggestions to smoothen the sojourn of the next chronic ventilator user through an ICU, while ensuring maximal dignity and maintenance of function; minimising...

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  • Agenda

    SEPTEMBER 1-5   17th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists WCA 2021 Virtual event https://iii.hm/1biq 5-8  ERS International Congress 2021 - European Respiratory Society Virtual event https://iii.hm/1bir 8-10   European Society of Regional Anaesthesia (ESRA) Congress 2021 Virtual event https://iii.hm/1bis...

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  • Leveraging the Lessons of COVID-19 to Maximise the Benefits of Integrating Care

    An overview of the Integrated Care System (ICS), how it can help deliver significant  long-term benefits to citizens and member organisations and steps that can be taken to overcome implementation challenges. Key Points A truly integrated approach will help target resources towards key population health needs and address inequalities....

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  • What COVID-19 has Taught Us: Insights on Singapore’s Healthcare System and the New Normal

    Singapore is world-renowned for being a unique and technologically advanced hub, and has proved to be one of the global leaders in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. HealthManagement.org talks with Associate Professor Wong Hon Tym, Clinical Director at the Centre for Healthcare Innovation, about the pandemic-driven progress in Singapore’s healthcare....

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  • Digital Health Transformation in Europe – Recommendations are on the Horizon

    DigitalHealthEurope’s work indicates the importance of the development and uptake of data-driven decision-support tools for better health and care delivery and policy-making. While European funding should further support and reinforce better collaboration in times of pandemics, plenty of non-communicable diseases will need to be supported by ‘digital’...

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  • The Cost of Keeping the Imaging Status Quo

    As demand for diagnostic imaging continues to increase, it is important for hospitals and radiology departments to trade in the imaging status quo of the isolated silo for a consolidated approach such as Enterprise Imaging. Key Points Hospitals today have to deal with an assortment of disparate, standalone systems that have different capabilities...

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  • How Consistent is Medical Information on the Internet?

    Case Study: Amyloidosis on Portal of Mayo Clinic et al. In the age of constantly accessible Internet, would-be patients and healthcare professionals often “Google it” when faced with an ailment or an unusual symptom or condition. In order to test how reliable and consistent the information is that is found there, we conducted a review of several...

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  • Digital Anamnesis: Integrating Classic History Taking with Digital Health

    The “Digital Anamnesis” concept and the proposed model may have useful  implications for medical education, in a medical practice and for conceptualisation  of modern Electronic Health Records Key Points Medical history taking is a historically, and key part of clinical practice and provides a correct diagnosis 76% of the...

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  • Smart Circulator or Value-Driven Perspective for Patients?

    Cardiology is a discipline with many opportunities; however, replacing the physician is ethically impermissible and machines must follow the measure of ethics. Only then can smart cardiology save and improve lives and make an important contribution in the world. Key Points Smart medicine, like all other technological innovations, must serve...

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  • Health and the City

    With urban populations increasingly growing worldwide and technology making smart cities a reality, there is 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...

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