HealthManagement, Volume 22 - Issue 4, 2022

Connected Patients/Informed Clinicians: It’s All About Data, Analytics and Technology

Patients and their families today are expecting more transparency and involvement in their care than ever before. They want to engage with their health, to access their medical records, and to be informed about clinical decisions and options. Clinicians and administrators also have heightened expectations about the data, analytical tools and technology available to them. They seek more personalised patient...

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Linking Patients With Data: Brain-Computer Interfaces and Healthcare Innovation

Patients can be directly linked to data. Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are an emerging neurotechnology with potential applications in different psychological and neurological disorders and there is a rising interest in its use to address current unmet clinical needs. Despite their therapeutic potential, BCIs are mostly limited to research stages and their translation into mainstream clinical applications...

Flipping Healthcare Through a Population Health Stack

The Population Health Stack provides a systems language to illustrate the models of care that need to be developed at each level of a Population Health System. This allows us to flip the healthcare system and better address the new health needs of the population. The traditional model of healthcare has become unsustainable. To address new needs of an ageing population, health systems are flipping healthca...

Data Science in Modern Healthcare

Data science has brought forth many exciting advancements in healthcare; however, it is important to recognise what data science is and how we can continue to use it to positively advance healthcare Data science is an intersection of computer science, mathematics, and domain expertise.Artificial intelligence encompasses machine learning and deep learning which are the building blocks of data science.Data s...

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Point-of-View - Remote Patient Monitoring

Expanding the Use of Remote Technologies in Healthcare

Health systems could reduce inefficiencies and achieve growth by strategically deploying telehealth technologies throughout the patient pathway. Remote technology can impact how caregivers deliver care. HealthManagement.org spoke to Sourabh Pagaria, Executive Vice President & Managing Director of the Southern European business of Siemens Healthineers, on the benefits, challenges and future trends of rem...

DICOM Metadata - A Useful Resource for Big Data Analytics

This article provides an overview of new ways to represent data combining patient access and DICOM information, advanced use of medical imaging metadata, analysis of radiation dose and image segmentation and deep learning for feature engineering to enrich data. Data is the world’s most valuable resource and it is possible to find data everywhere. In medical images, data covers not only gigapixel images,...

How to Utilise the Massive Amount of Health Data Collected by Consumers to Improve Health Outcomes

This article discusses why big data is underutilised in healthcare and why it makes sense to utilise it for healthcare improvement. It also explores how to achieve data privacy and security with big healthcare data. The discussion about big data in healthcare always has a predictable format, especially in Europe. It laments the massive amount of data that is collected about patients, bemoans the security...

Point-of-View - Enterprise Imaging

Across the Regions, Agfa HealthCare is Making Image Sharing a Reality

An overview of large-scale, multi-site health IT projects which demonstrate how Agfa HealthCare has strategically and operationally guided clients, who make use of its flagship Enterprise Imaging platform, to fulfill complex requirements and bring to success tangible outcomes. A well-designed Enterprise Imaging platform enables healthcare networks to leverage technology to support their national or extende...

In Search of Gold in Health Data

The low quality of health data is at the core of why we are not making the most of data science. However, new ways of dealing with acquiring those data can overcome this situation. High-quality health data are essential for healthcare delivery, health research and innovation.However, two key problems must be addressed: one concerning electronic health records access and interoperability, and second, the u...

Transforming Outpatient Services is Key to Delivering and Sustaining Elective Care Recovery

Redesigning outpatient services will be key to recover elective services. To be sustainable, the transformation needs to break down traditional barriers and focus on optimising the patients’ experience and outcomes. This needs a system-wide approach to reimagine operating and delivery models. Balancing the competing priorities of reducing patient waiting times whilst making outpatient care more personal...

Point-of-View - Affidea

How to Reach Gold Standards in Radiology Through Continuous Learning & Education - Affidea

Rapid developments in radiology and technological advances offer unique educational opportunities that can set the clinical standards for better patient outcomes. Affidea is committed to providing clinical teams with the necessary education and tools to lead the future of radiology. Radiology has a pivotal and decisive role in patient management.Affidea empowers its clinical community with a strong profes...

Healthcare Management and Healthcare Managers for Difficult Times

Do we need small changes for big transformations in healthcare management? Do we need different managerial figures to face the complexity and difficulties of the present period? Good public administration and good public management, capable of confronting current challenges with autonomous responsibility; highly prepared public managers, trans-sectorial capacity to compare experiences and exchange data, app...

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Public Procurement of Innovation - Guiding Healthcare Managers in Difficult Times

The European Union has proposed innovation in the procurement of the public administration of all sectors as a strategic tool to accelerate change. Considering the volume of the annual public procurement, this has been seen as a way of influencing enterprises to be innovative. Public procurement is aimed to find solutions to needs still not met by what is offered on the market. Hence, the supply chain must...

Point-of-View - Successful Digitalisation Pathways

The Main Challenges of Digitising Medical Facilities and How to Overcome Them

An overview of the challenges and strategies for successful implementation of modern IT systems in medical facilities. Hospital Information Systems (HIS) are designed to improve and digitise therapeutic and diagnostic processes.There are two types of medical systems that can be implemented: central systems and peripheral systems.Effective health IT systems improve the verification of data and increase the c...

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare – Realising the Benefits

An overview of the use and application of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things in healthcare and how these benefits can be realised in the short- and long-term. In an age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare, it is impossible that there is no communication with each other. AI in healthcare gives us, as species, the opportunity to start measuring on and commu...

Pivoting to Manage a Pandemic: Flexibility and Creativity in Teams

The COVID-19 pandemic presented a frequently changing situation for health systems, and successful management required a flexible and creative approach within a team. Lessons from Stanley McChrystal’s “Team of Teams” were very helpful in adapting to COVID-19 as a health system.Flexibility was a key tenet in our health system’s response as the threat COVID-19 posed was variable over time.In COVID-1...