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Volume 21 - Issue 8, 2021

Fri, 26 Nov 2021

Labs and Drugs

In this Issue

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Editorial

  • Labs and Drugs

    The delivery of high-quality healthcare and the effective treatment of acute and chronic illnesses cannot be achieved without drugs with high efficacy and safety and with laboratories working in the background to undertake basic research and understand the processes behind diseases, mechanism of action of different molecules and presentation of symptoms in patients. Numerous drugs undergo the process of...

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Management Matters

  • Health Data Innovation Perspectives

    Prof Paul Timmers at the University of Oxford and European University Cyprus speaks about the importance of protecting European interests and sovereignty in health data innovation. Protecting health data as digital assets is vital for safeguarding European sovereignty.National health innovation policies should view the European Health Data Space (EHDS) as a sovereign asset.EU national innovation plans for...

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Spotlight

  • Radiomics: Recent Trends and Assessing Research Quality

    Dr Renato Cuocolo, radiologist and research fellow at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’, recently spoke at the 2021 European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (EuSoMII) Annual Meeting about the challenges in assessing research quality in radiomics. Given radiomics’ transformative potential for medical imaging, HealthManagement.org met with Dr Cuocolo to discuss the recent trends and challen...

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Cover Stories

  • eHealth for Morphology Laboratory Practice

    An overview of the types of errors in clinical laboratories and how the integration of eHealth approaches in routine practice could help reduce them.At the practice level of morphology, errors can have a major adverse impact on patient care.There are different types of errors that can occur in a clinical laboratory.These include clinical errors, procedural errors, cognitive errors, and postanalytical error...

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  • Dare to Change!

    An overview of the successful collaboration between Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch (CHEM) and Agfa HealthCare and the implementation of the Enterprise Imaging platform. The Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch (CHEM) is the biggest hospital in the southern region of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. 1861 staff and 258 doctors work across three sites to care for 100,000 patients per year. But from an inform...

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  • Working Towards a World Without Alzheimer’s and All Other Dementia

    An overview of the goals and vision of the Alzheimer’s Association and its commitment to advance vital research for the treatment, prevention and cure for Alzheimer’s Disease. The Alzheimer’s Association is a leading voluntary health organisation in Alzheimer’s care, support and research.The Alzheimer’s National Registry for Treatment and Diagnostics (ALZ-NET) will gather clinical data and outcom...

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  • Peer Review System: Collaborative Learning to Achieve Clinical Excellence

    An overview of Affidea’s Peer Review system that allows radiology teams to learn and grow together and benefit from each other’s expertise and experience for better clinical outcomes. At Affidea, we aim to create a strong culture of quality where every member of the clinical team feels empowered and encouraged to participate in the process of improving patient care. We do this through various syst...

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  • Why is the Pharmaceutical Industry Not Developing New Antibiotics?

    An overview of antibiotic resistance, causative factors, reasons for the lack of research and drug development in this area and potential solutions. Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health.The primary culprit of fuelling antibiotic resistance is the misuse and overuse of existing antibiotic drugs.Poor infection prevention and control is another key driver of antibiotic resistan...

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Winning Practices