Issues

Volume 23 - Issue 1, 2023

Tue, 28 Feb 2023

• AI & Robotics – Implementation and Pitfalls

  Prof. Lluís Donoso-Bach

  Artificial Intelligence and Robotics are now being used everywhere in healthcare, whether its robotic surgery, genetic testing, data collection, cancer research or more. However, healthcare is still in an evolutionary stage when it comes to AI and Robotics and is in the process of testing and experimentation to assess whether and how this technology can become an integral part of the future of health care....

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• What We Have Learnt from AI Development – Can it Be a Feedback in Our Daily Routines?

  Dr. Andras Vargha

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  Let’s professionalise procurement by giving decision-makers (doctors, board, ...) decision-making tools that bring objective, patient-centred and cost-oriented VALUE to the hospital sector. Procurement is part of healthcare management and holds the key to all topics that are lessons learned from COVID-19: supply chain management, sustainability, transparency, digitalisation, patient experience, innovatio...

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• Integrative Diagnostics: A Vision for Better Care

  Prof Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, FACR

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  Integrative Diagnostics is a pathway to more patient centered care with better outcomes but this disruptive innovation must clear significant hurdles in the current delivery and education system to achieve its potential for patients. The digitisation of pathology, advances in computing power and the ability of artificial intelligence to extract and knit together relevant data elements means that “Integra...

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• Use of Artificial Intelligence in Screening – Benefits, Challenges, and Impact on Patients’ Pathways

  Elizabeth Cocklin

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  Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionise medical screening by providing fast, accurate and cost-effective results. InHealth Intelligence is in collaboration with several AI technology companies with the aim to accelerate the implementation and validation of AI in diabetic eye screening programmes. AI hold great promise as a screening tool in medicine Increasing evidence that AI is...

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• Breaking Down Barriers: Finding the Sweet Spot Between Affordability and High-Quality

  Dr Charles Niehaus

  As healthcare costs continue to rise,patients, Insurance companies and other payorsand healthcare providers alike face the challenge of balancing high-quality care with affordability. It is essential for healthcare systems to provide patients with the care they need at a price they can afford without comprom...

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• The Patient Is the DATA

  Jan Vekemans

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  With the advent of digital technology in healthcare, data has become an essential component of modern healthcare delivery. The availability of patient data is crucial for providing quality care, managing patient privacy and safety, and promoting patient engagement. However, data silos and the lack of interoperability between healthcare systems have made it difficult to access patient data across the entire...

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• Trends in Telemedicine

  Henrik Agrell

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  Telemedicine Clinic (TMC), part of the Unilabs Group, is one of the largest providers of elective subspecialist teleradiology reporting services and night-time emergency teleradiology services in Europe, with more than 330 radiologists servicing around 140 hospitals in Sweden, Denmark and the U.K. HealthManagement.org spoke to Henrik about the vision of TMC, its services, and how he perceives the future of...

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• HCO’s Using Digital Tools to Rebound from Pandemic, Supply Chain Issues

  Stephen Lieber

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  The last 3 years have been very difficult times for healthcare organisations as they have faced and dealt with the challenges of COVID-19, supply chain disruptions, and staffing problems. The 2022 Digital Health Most Wired survey, conducted by CHIME, shows how facilities are increasingly turning to digital tools to address infrastructure, security, administrative/supply chain, analytics/data management, inn...

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• Radiomics in Cardiovascular Imaging: Current Role and Future Perspectives

  Raffaele Ascione, MD

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  Radiomics may lead to personalised management and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, which could impact patients’ prognosis. In recent years, multiple radiomics-based tools have been investigated in the field of cardiovascular imaging. Radiomics may predict outcomes of cardiac diseases without the need of invasive procedures. Cardiac CT radiomics may enhance the assessment of advanced a...

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• Why Should Radiologists Care about IT Standards and Interoperability?

  Dr. Peter Mildenberger

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  Interoperability is essential in healthcare in general. In radiology, there are specific and relevant requirements, as radiology facilities are often completely digitised and a wide variety of systems need to communicate with each other. The use of IHE profiles is a great help for users when deciding on new modalities or IT solutions, as there is no need to define individual aspects of standards. By specify...

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• New Public Procurement Specifications and Flows with Public-Private Collaboration

  Mario Ledesma

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  The future goes through the incorporation of innovative procedures in contracting, which through new specifications, achieve great solutions for the needs of citizens in management, technology, health, etc. Replacing an aging health care infrastructure demands careful planning afterRealizing that an aging population, new and better therapies and new financials are only going to be more commonGovernment and...

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• Health Data Quality: A Dynamic Complexity

  Jens Declerck

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  Data quality is about having confidence in the quality of the data that you record and reuse. For example, Artificial Intelligence applications consume tons of data. Since we do not know the quality of health data -and yes, we do not know-, may we trust the outcome of this growing number of important A.I. applications? High-Quality Health Data is a “must-have” requirement. Data quality is an evolving r...

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• Why Adopt Population Health Management Software

  Inga Shugalo

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  We all wish to be equal when it comes to health. Yet, people’s residence, socio-economic status, and demographics significantly influence their health. How do we take all of the above into account to improve healthcare services for different groups of people? The term “population health” was coined in 2003 to determine the influence of different factors on the state of health in a particular group. P...

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• Shifting from Cybersecurity to Cyber Resilience

  Christodoulos Papadopoulos

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  A paradigm called “Cyber Resilience” includes a long-term defense against cyberattacks. It covers all three phases of a cyberattack, including mitigation techniques, reaction to an incident, and recovery. An organisation’s cyber resilience attempts to lead it through such challenging circumstances and speed up its recovery. Additionally, it seeks to protect the entire business by considering all poten...

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• Healthcare Procurement in 2023: Let’s Shape the Beginning from the End!

  Danny Havenith

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  Let’s professionalise procurement by giving decision-makers (doctors, board, ...) decision-making tools that bring objective, patientcentred and cost-oriented VALUE to the hospital sector. Procurement is part of healthcare management and holds the key to all topics that are lessons learned from COVID-19: supply chain management, sustainability, transparency, digitalisation, patient experience, innovation...

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• Women Leadership in Healthcare – Time to Walk the Talk

  Rita Veloso

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  Being a woman in leadership is a big challenge by itself. When we talk about female leadership in technological fields and healthcare that challenge becomes even greater. Women represent 70% of the 43 million workers in the global health care industry, according to the WHO. Yet, at the executive level, women make up just 25% of healthcare leadership positions. The Glass Ceiling, as shown before, still exist...

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• Managing Hospital Communication

  J. Antônio Cirino, PhD

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  From care activities to administrative activities in a health unit, communication is a critical factor for the strategy of organisations. That is why a strategic vision for communication in hospitals is essential. Through the three communication al-sectional dimensions for the implementation of communication management in health units, we can understand the importance of these processes. Leaders and healt...

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• Health at a Glance Europe 2022: Addressing Legacies from the Pandemic

  Francesca Colombo, M.Sc.

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  The 2022 edition of OECD’s Health at a Glance: Europe examines key challenges European countries must address to develop more resilient health systems following the COVID-19 pandemic. While mortality from the pandemic mainly affected older people, the pandemic also affected greatly the mental and physical health of young people in Europe, with large numbers reporting unmet needs for mental health care.In...

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