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7 Healthcare Technology Trends to Watch in 2024
Technology continues to advance rapidly across industries, but few sectors see more vigorous innovation than healthcare. From artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to cloud-based systems to advanced devices, new technologies aim to improve patient outcomes, lower costs, and enhance efficiency for medical providers. As we...
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Young Healthcare Workers Face More Workplace Discrimination, Leading to Stress and Burnout
AUTHORS Morenike Ayo-Vaughan Program Officer, Advancing Health Equity, The Commonwealth Fund Laurie C. Zephyrin Senior Vice President, Advancing Health Equity, The Commonwealth Fund A recent survey of 3,000 health care workers revealed that younger clinicians ages 18–29 — nurses, doctors, dentists,...
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How ‘invitations’ from Penn Medicine Restored Mammogram Completion Rates
The first few waves of COVID-19 slowed life across the United States, affecting everything from attending school to eating out for dinner and going on vacation. Segments of health care were also affected: Services that were not considered immediately crucial to fighting the virus were slowed or stopped during the pandemic’s first wave. ...
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Safety in Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing: How to Score With End-to-End Processes
The term “safety” in the context of biopharmaceutical manufacturing is ambiguous: On the one side, it refers to the safe applicability of pharmaceutical products in clinical settings. The products not only have to be effective, but the risks for patients upon administration need to be predictable as well, which is why tolerability is...
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Innovations in Immediate Care: Transforming Emergency Medicine
Emergency medicine is a field of healthcare that treats illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention, including disaster medicine, critical care medicine or emergency medical services, among many other specialisations. Within this context, technology has exerted a substantial influence alongside forward-thinking practices that radically...
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Accept- Visualize -Act- Keep Acting
Don't waste your time, it's more valuable now than ever! Be Accepted gives you a head start and saves you time. Accept what is, recognize the situation and get a general overview. The important thing is how you accept the situation and what you do with it. You cannot change what is happening, but you can choose how to react....
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Moderna and OpenAI Partner to Accelerate the Development of Life-Saving Treatments
Moderna and OpenAI partner to accelerate the development of life-saving treatments. Moderna partners with OpenAI to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise to thousands of employees across the company. Now every function is empowered with AI, creating novel use cases and GPTs that accelerate and expand the impact of every team. Moderna has been...
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Biologic Medicines: Transition from Clinical to Commercial Manufacturing
The transition from clinical to commercial manufacturing is a critical juncture in the lifecycle of biological medicines. It embodies the complex interplay between biotechnological innovation, regulatory rigour, and commercial strategy. Successfully navigating this phase is pivotal for delivering breakthrough therapies to patients worldwide,...
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My radiologist says I have dense breast tissue. Should I be worried?
Q: I had my first mammogram this year and was told that everything was fine, but the radiologist sent me a letter saying that I have dense breast tissue. What does this mean, and should I be worried? A: The short answer is no. Dense breast tissue by itself does not need to cause alarm. Actually, approximately 40% to 50% of women undergoing...
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Speech by Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at the Lancet Breast Cancer Commission Report Launch
"Check against delivery" Ladies and gentlemen, friends and colleagues, Thank you for the opportunity to speak today and to hear the different voices and views on this new and very important Report from the Lancet Breast Cancer Commission. My congratulations to all those involved in its research and findings. Cancer affects...
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Mastering HIPAA-Compliant Email for Healthcare
Imagine yourself as a skilled tightrope walker gracefully navigating a crowded hospital atrium. Below you, a sea of patients and staff represents the sensitive patient health information (PHI) you manage daily. Your goal? Confidentiality must be ensured to traverse this digital tightrope securely while clear communication is maintained. This,...
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Microsoft and G42 Partner To Accelerate AI Innovation In UAE and Beyond
Strategic partnership highlights: Expansion of partnership between Microsoft and G42 to deliver advanced AI solutions with Microsoft Azure across various industries and markets. Microsoft will invest $1.5 billion in G42 for a minority stake in G42 and join its board of directors. Companies will support the establishment of a $1 billion...
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People Are People
Sabine Torgler Staff Nurse University Hospital Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) Director English for Nurses Ltd. Board member, European Nurse Directors Association UK My Dear Readers, Happy April to you all. I hope my words find you well. It's time for thoughts from the island. The title of this...
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Overcoming Stigma: Men's Mental Health Awareness
Real men don't cry – or at least that is what society has made us believe. Hypermasculinisation refers to a gender role that makes men feel crying is weak or feminine. Unfortunately, the trend has produced men who cannot express themselves, and bottling up these emotions leads to depression and harms mental health. Everyone has their...
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Training the Next Generation of Physicians for the Next Extreme Weather Event
It started with sea anemones at a college lab. As an undergrad in Swarthmore College’s marine biology program, Farah Hussain, MD , used the organisms to study coral bleaching, where a coral turns white from stressors like high temperature or pollution—a tell-tale sign of climate change. That’s when her interest in environmental advocacy began....
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New WHO Guidance Promotes Fair and Ethical Management of International Health Worker Migration
Today during World Health Worker Week, the World Health Organization (WHO) published guidance on Bilateral agreements on health worker migration and mobility . The guidance was developed by WHO and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, with the International Labour Organization, as part of the Working for Health programme....
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Oscar Brings AI to Health Insurance, Reducing Costs and Improving Patient Care
The healthcare industry is notoriously complex. Oscar Health, a healthcare technology company, believes in leveraging technology and data to serve patients at every step of their care. “Language models were the first time we thought, you can translate the messiness of the real world into a clear digitised plan,” said Mario Schlosser, Co-Founder...
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How Penn Medicine is Going Green for Good Health
The patient lies still on the operating table, softly inhaling the anesthetic gases that keep her safely sedated during surgery. Then she breathes out, and the anesthesia that wasn’t metabolized by her body—roughly 95 percent of the gas flowing through the anesthesia machine—is exhaled, unused and unchanged. That gas is then vented through the...
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Tackling the ‘Nursing Exodus’ in the Philippines
The top supplier of nurses globally, the Philippines is hit with a shortage of nurses at home. Retention strategies could involve creating a positive working environment that boosts nurses’ work satisfaction and career development The Philippines has been known as a major – if not the largest – exporter of nurses globally. It was estimated...
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A Glimpse into the Future for European Digital Natives
Digital-native businesses’ (DNBs) deal-making, valuations, and exit activities were all down in 2023 in the European venture market, according to Atomico’s The State of European Tech 2023 . A market return to form that, however, can be considered a worldwide phenomenon. The key fundamentals that led to a downturn in the funding environment...
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