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Lung Cancer Care Empowered by AI - Meet the Team behind

Facilitating decisions using vast amounts of comparative data – AI can do this, but creating the algorithms is a complex and lengthy process.... Read more

How My Digital Self Helped Me Survive Cancer

Imagine an avatar, a digital “you” so accurately mapped to your physical self that it could be used to personalize your healthcare, to predict... Read more

European Physicians Don’t Trust CDSS for Elderly Fall Risk Management

It is important to minimise fall risks for the elderly since these can result in severe injury. Since many cardiovascular and psychotropic medications... Read more

User-Centred Designed CDSS for Sleeping Staging in Polysomnography

South Korean researchers recently developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based clinical decision support system (CDSS) to assist polysomnographic... Read more

Human Factors Engineering Improves CDS Usability for Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis

According to a recent study published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics , poor usability continues to plague clinical decision... Read more

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Connecting care teams to patients can drive patient engagement and improve treatment processes that can assist cooperative care. HealthManagement.org interviewed Xavier Battle, head of Marketing and Sales for the Digital Health Business Line for Siemens Healthineers, about the importance and benefits of connected care, application of real-time data,... Read more

1. Practise Good Self-Care It’s vital for your personal wellbeing that you take adequate breaks from work, including time for relaxation and respite in the form of hobbies and outdoor activities. Yoga and meditation can be particularly helpful for maintaining a balanced and clear mind, which equips you for making good, logical decisions that are not... Read more

White Papers and Case Studies

Image Interpretation Principles of 3D Automated Breast Ultrasound – A Case Based Introduction

2022 02 Jun

Ingolf Karst, MD, PhD, MA 1 ; Nadine Gottschalk, MD 2 ; Ellen B. Mendelson, MD, FACR 2 ; Erin I. Neuschler, MD 3 1 Breast Imaging, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA 2 Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA 3 Department of Radiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of... Read more

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis in Screening – Approaches to Reduce Reading Time

2022 02 Jun

Ioannis Sechopoulos, PhD Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Dutch Expert Center for Screening (LRCB), Nijmegen, The Netherlands Abstract The development of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) for the detection of breast cancer has resulted in many trials showing that... Read more

Titanium Contrast-Enhanced Mammography (TiCEM): Mammography Becomes a Functional Technique

2022 02 Jun

Arlette Elizalde, MD and Luis J. Pina Insausti, MD, PhD Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain Abstract Digital Mammography has evolved into more accurate techniques, such as Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and Contrast Enhanced Dual Energy Mammography (CEDEM). CEDEM combines the high spatial resolution of Digital Mammography and the... Read more

Medical Errors in the Preanalytical Phase of Blood Gases Test

2023 26 May

The preanalytical phase of the blood gases study is the most susceptible to errors, causing increased time and costs for patients and hospitals. Knowledge and training of the involved health personnel must be constant to improve results.   Introduction Arterial or venous blood gases test is a frequent tool in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)... Read more

Medical Error And Harm

2022 17 Feb

Patients in the intensive care unit generally have complex healthcare issues with underlying comorbidities and organ dysfunction. They are thus more vulnerable to medical errors. Often, the treatment of these patients requires the use of interventions that could potentially result in adverse events, errors and harm. While critical care guidelines... Read more

Medical Error, Harm and Patient Safety

2022 17 Feb

Join our panellists on March 1 at 16:00 CET as they discuss the prevalence and types of medical errors in the ICU, the psychological impact of these errors, and strategies to prevent them and improve the safety of critically ill patients. Moderator Jean-Louis Vincent  Editor-in-Chief ICU Management & Practice Professor Department... Read more

Coping With the Psychological Impact of Medical Errors: Some Practical Strategies

2022 17 Feb

Significant efforts have been made to make hospitals and ICUs as safe as possible. As healthcare workers (HCWs) try to get through this pandemic, the focus of this article is to explore practical steps to help these workers better cope with the psychological effects of being involved in an error event. Introduction:... Read more

Patient Safety in the ICU: Exploring Trends in Adverse Events in ICUs

2022 17 Feb

Adverse events (AEs) are common among critically ill patients. Evidence about the nature, preventability and predictability of AEs can be used to reinvest in efforts to reduce them and improve patient safety in ICUs. Case Mr. A, a previously well 70-year-old male was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with respiratory... Read more

From Our Journals

 Nathaniel M. Sims

Closing the Loop: The Road to Zero Medication Errors

Summary: It is estimated that even today, medical errors are the...

Prof. Federico Gordo Vidal

Innovations in ICU ventilation

The future delivered   In this article, we aim to summarise the...

 Khara M Sauro

Patient Safety in the ICU: Exploring Trends in Adverse Events in ICUs

Adverse events (AEs) are common among critically ill patients....

 Mariana Joya-Ramírez

Learning from Medical Errors

Healthcare professionals/trainees are often unprepared to experience...

Dr. Antonio Naharro-Abellán

Clinical Decision Support Systems: Future or Present in ICU?

Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are today, a reality. More...

Prof Jean-Louis Vincent

Medical Error And Harm

Patients in the intensive care unit generally have complex healthcare...

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