Issues

Volume 15 - Issue 4, 2015

Cancer, cardio-oncology, elastography, breast screening, CT, lung cancer screening, tomosynthesis, infographics, dose management, ultrasound, appropriate use, decision support, contrast media, copper, infection control, economics, business intelligence, big data, human resources, point of care ultrasound, portals, ageing, doctors, personality testing, hospital marketing, Mexico

Wed, 30 Dec 2015

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In this Issue

  • Table of contents
  • Editorial Board
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Editorial

  • Guest Editorial

    CancerIn 17 countries of the European Union, cancer has overtaken cardiovascular disease as the leading cause for premature death. In Europe in 2012, there were 3.75 million new cases of cancer, with 1.75 million deaths, equivalent to a cancer death every 20 seconds. Upward pressure on appropriate health spending and the needs of ageing populations need to be factored in, otherwise by 2050 we will face an...

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  • Editorial Board Members

    Editor-In-Chief Prof. Lluís Donoso Bach Hospital Clinic – University Of Barcelona, Spain Honorary Board Member Prof. Iain Mccall UK (Retired) Editorial Board Members Prof. Stephen Baker Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, U.S. Prof. Hans Blickman University Of Rochester Medical Center, U.S. Prof. Georg Bongartz University Of Basel, Switzerland Prof. Davide Caramella University Of Pisa, Italy...

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Cover Story

Management Matrix

  • CT Dose Management: A Pan European Strategy

    Computed Tomography (CT) ranks as one of the top five medical developments of the last 40 years, with its inventors being awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1979 (Radiologyinfo. org 2011). From the first generation of CT scanners in the 1970s to the fourth generation scanners of today, the technological improvements of CT in speed, resolution and patient comfort have been immense. Owing to technological...

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  • Point-of-Care US: A New Service Delivery Model

    Medical care in the Netherlands is organised through a gatekeeper, the general practitioner (GP). Originally, the GP would take care of the entire spectrum of medical care personally, in his or her office, often aided by a partner. When time and paperwork constraints made this more difficult, organisations sprang up that centralised medical diagnostics services regionally for groups of GPs. In the Netherlan...

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  • Appropriate Imaging and Clinical Decision Support

    "We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us” (McLuhan) Wasteful, unhelpful imaging helps nobody, and may be associated with patient harms through unneeded and unwanted intervention. Appropriate imaging through referral guidance is advocated through the Bonn Call-for-Action (International Atomic Energy Authority and World Health Organization 2013), with supporting tools such as clinical decision...

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  • Iodinated Contrast Media: Risks and Best Practice

    The aim of administering contrast media in medical imaging is to improve image contrast and the diagnostic efficacy of the imaging examination being undertaken. Developments in the manufacture of iodinated contrast media have led to an increase in safety standards. However, the administration of iodinated contrast media still provides a potential small risk to the patient. The purpose of this review is t...

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  • Antimicrobial Copper Touch Surfaces: Reduce Infections, Liberate Resources and Cut Costs

    The role of the environment in the transmission of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) is increasingly recognised, requiring a new approach to the selection of materials for objects frequently touched by healthcare workers, patients and visitors that can serve as reservoirs of infection. There are many technologies and materials on the market, but none are as effective under typical indoor conditions...

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  • Business Intelligence in Hospital Management

    Management cannot work without defining and utilising key performance indicators (KPI) to control entire business procedures. This is also a must for the health management sector. Cuts in reimbursement, higher demand from patients and referring physicians combined with a permanently varying political and legal framework require high transparency and the ability to react quickly, change strategies and optim...

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  • Health Economic Systems: How Do They Influence Radiology?

    In an ordinary market, the client uses their knowledge and the resources available in order to make purchases, which will cover their needs. Depending on their knowledge, their needs and the money that they possess, they compare prices and products in order to make informed decisions on what to buy. When it comes to their healthcare, the client does not have specific knowledge, so they seek a physician. T...

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  • Big Data: Opportunities for Healthcare Organisations

    Healthcare organisations need to make much better use of the health data that they hold and to share that use with other organisations in order to scale up their learning opportunities and improve the quality and efficiency of the healthcare they provide. At the level of the individual patient, guideline and decision support systems, notification and alerting components and analytic tools need to process in...

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  • ClinicalConnect Portal: Improving Patient Care and Efficiency

    Beginning in 1996, hospitals in the Hamilton, Ontario, Canada area started coming together to form Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS), a family of seven hospitals, a cancer centre and an urgent care centre, serving more than 2.3 million residents of Hamilton and South Central Ontario, Canada. HHS is the second largest hospital group in Ontario, and serves as a regional referral centre for cardiac, stroke, burns...

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  • The Older Patient: Ehealth and Mhealth Approach in Today's Context of Demographic Ageing

    The demographic trends projected over the long term reveal that Europe is ‘turning increasingly grey’ in the coming decades. By 2025 more than 20 percent of Europeans will be 65 or over, with a particularly rapid increase in the number of over 80s. This ageing trend will continue, and it is expected that by 2060 more than 30 percent will be 65 or over and the number of over 80s will reach 12 percent of...

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  • Health and Wellbeing of the Workforce

    The National Health Service (NHS) must work hard to protect the health and well being of its workforce. Failure to do so costs organisations across the system dearly but, more importantly, patient care may suffer. What does it feel like to be unable to do your job properly through lack of time, staff shortages or financial constraints? Today, many NHS clinicians and managers (and probably support staff too...

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  • Insights Into Personality: Implications in Physician Profiles

    According to a scientific study published in 2013 by acclaimed NASA toxicologist Dr. John T. James, an estimated 210,000 to 440,000 people die each year due to preventable medical errors (James 2013). Further examination reveals that medical errors would then be the third largest cause of death in the United States (Allen 2013). A driving component of healthcare reform in the United States is the mandate to...

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  • Hospital Magazines: Top Tips From an Expert

    Following HealthManagement. org's articles on blogging (La Calle et al. 2015) and tweeting (Wong and Mathieu 2015), in this issue, HealthManagement.org puts the hospital magazine in focus. Kathy Smith, Vice President of Marketing & Communications at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and director of the quarterly publication, Johns Hopkins Health, shares her tips on how to create a magazine that works for both...

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Compass

  • Mexico: Focus on Seguro Popular

    Seguro Popular: Mexico’s Progress in Protecting the Right to Health Mexicans are embracing human rights more than ever before, and Mexico’s constitution has recognised that healthcare is a universal right for more than thirty years. And yet, as made obvious by conflicts over 'Obamacare' in the United States (Council of Economic Advisers 2015), this most obvious of rights is rarely accepted without deba...

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Zoom On Profiles

  • Dipak Kalra

    1. What are your key areas of interest and research? Helping to drive the future evolution of electronic health records (EHRs) to be a rich, holistic and smart information resource to all players involved in healthcare and research. My present areas of focus include semantic interoperability, enabling meaning to be understood by people and computers when data are shared between different information systems...

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  • David Wilson

    1. What are your key areas of interest and research? Occult fractures and outcome in acute ankle injuries and using MR-Ultrasound to treat nerve root pain. Education is a key area of interest for me in my role as President of the British Institute of Radiology and in my own practice. 2. What are the major challenges in your field? One of my passions is getting radiologists working as doctors. The biggest...

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