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Volume 22 - Issue 1, 2022

Fri, 11 Mar 2022

Managing Efficiently Future Pandemics

In this Issue

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Editorial

Cover Stories

  • The Future of Healthcare in the Wake of COVID-19 - Time for a Paradigm Shift

    This paper explores the future of healthcare as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of complex systems theory and the pillars of integrated care. COVID-19 has exposed and amplified the inequities in our health and care systems.In seeking to address these inequities, we need to recognise that health and care systems are complex adaptive systems.Integrated care is an important guiding prin...

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  • Surge Operations Call Center: Managing Capacity Through Innovation and Collaboration

    Early during the COVID-19 pandemic, a newly developed Surge Operations Call Center (SOCC) averted overload in individual Central Ohio hospitals by directing patients to hospitals with available beds and staff. The SOCC, designed to load balance patients during emergencies to network hospitals according to bed and staff capacity, helped prevent hospital overload during the COVID-19 pandemic.Streamlined pro...

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  • Telehealth Platforms: The Foundation for Digital Transformation

    An overview of the role of digital transformation in the healthcare space, particularly the adoption of telehealth solutions during the pandemic and an outlook of the future of telehealth solutions and the momentum of digitalisation in healthcare. During the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation efforts in healthcare have accelerated, especially in the telehealth sphere.Remote patient monitoring is her...

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  • Autonomous Delivery of Medical Material Through Drones in a Future Pandemic

    An overview of the logistic challenges during the pandemic, the use of drones to trigger logistic advancements both in normal operational conditions and in emergency situations, and the new set of possibilities introduced by autonomous drones to reduce legacy vulnerabilities of healthcare systems. COVID-19 highlighted the need for improvement in existing logistic methods for the transport of biological samp...

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  • The Importance of Syncope Assessment, Diagnosis and Management

    Professor Michele Brignole is the the coordinator of the Faint & Fall programme at the IRCCS Istituto Auxologico, Milan, Italy. He was formerly the Director of the Department of Cardiology of Ospedali del Tigullio, Lavagna, Italy. Prof Brignole’s main fields of research are diagnosis, pathophysiology, therapy of syncope and rhythm disturbances and catheter ablation of arrhythmias. He served as the cha...

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Governance And Leadership

Successful Digitalisation Pathways

Medical Imaging

  • EFRS, the Future of Radiography and Informatics

    Charlotte Beardmore, the Executive Director of Professional Policy for the Society and College of Radiographers, was appointed President of the European Federation of Radiographer Societies (EFRS) and is now serving as Immediate Past President. Charlotte has served on the EFRS board for a number of years. In an interview with HealthManagement.org, Charlotte discusses the future of radiography and describes...

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