Volume 23 - Issue 4, 2023

In light of the climate crisis’s imminent threat to human well-being and the profound economic consequences it carries, we, as healthcare managers, occupy a crucial position in addressing these multifaceted challenges. Our roles extend far beyond traditional healthcare administration, encompassing a vital responsibility for environmental sustainability within healthcare systems. We must allocate resource...

United Imaging Healthcare debuts next-generation PET/CT Systems, the uMI Panorama Family, and the Integrated Molecular Technology Platform at the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) annual meeting, pioneering a new era of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. United Imaging Healthcare (UIH) is a global leader in advanced medical imaging and radiotherapy equipment. UIH has provided high-e...

With the European Council’s revision of breast screening recommendations last year, radiology departments are facing a new era for mammography. With the addition of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), also known as 3D mammography, to the radiology toolkit, this opens the way to new advancements in patient health. One of these advancements, contrasted-enhanced mammography (CEM), has seen several impor...

Awareness, systems approach, interaction from top-down and bottom-up, willingness and urgency to take action and tackle the climate change problem with the decarbonisation of the health sector will require efforts from people involved in healthcare and the environment, according to the principle of “One Health”. Interventions are urgent. Time is of the essence. The greenhouse effect is when solar...

Aims to reduce carbon emissions by 50% with sustainable Philips healthtech innovations In a stride towards sustainability and innovation in healthcare, the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal has forged a strategic partnership with Philips. This collaboration aims to reduce the carbon footprint resulting from Champalimaud’s diagnostic and interventional imaging equipment by a staggering...

Insights on making healthcare and hospitals more sustainable and strategies to make them more efficient and capable of leveraging digital technology to pursue these goals. Globally, the healthcare sector is responsible for 5% emissions. If healthcare was a country, it would be the fifth largest emitter. ECHAlliance - The Global Health Connector is a membership organisation that works to connect, conve...

If the health sector were a country, it would be the fifth-largest emitter of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) on the planet. To become more sustainable, the health sector is turning to the cloud. A sustainable healthcare system is one that “improves, maintains, or restores health, while minimizing negative impacts on the environment and leveraging opportunities to restore and improve it, to the bene...

The health sector occupies a unique position as a contributor to carbon emissions but also a sector that pays for the damages of climate change through health impact. By decarbonising, the health sector has a dual opportunity to meet the challenges and benefit from sustainable changes. For this, a systems approach to change is needed that considers the most vulnerable and marginalised, ensuring a just tran...

Explore different sustainability dimensions for dental support organizations and identify two factors that can help DSOs enable sustainable growth and standardize clinical excellence. 95% of business leaders believe sustainability is important. Sustainability means more than making environmentally conscious business decisions—it refers to any action that ensures the longevity of the DSO and the comm...

Individual countries and healthcare organisations have largely been working independently – or sometimes in small partnerships – to improve sustainability and reduce the environmental damage that comes as a biproduct of healthcare provided globally. Building on these successes, Health Proc Europe and HealthPRO Canada have launched Project PROcure as a solution to connect buyers, suppliers and governmen...

As a healthcare leader, you have the responsibility and opportunity to take action against climate change and prioritise zero emissions for your hospital. By taking climate action, healthcare can seize the opportunity to combat the greatest threat to human health and protect an already overstretched sector. You don’t have to do it alone. Hospitals across Europe are already successfully implementing...

Beatriz Piñeiro Lago, Health Innovation and Sustainability Technician at the Galician Health Service (SERGAS), spoke to HealthManagement.org about several climate-smart initiatives implemented at SERGAS and how healthcare facilities can take the lead in transitioning to net zero. Can you describe the climate-smart initiative that Galician Health Service (SERGAS) has implemented? I would like to be...

An overview of the Canadian health system’s interest in environmental sustainability and efforts to build a more climate-resilient healthcare system. The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care is Canada’s premier green healthcare organisation. Canada is warming at a rate more than twice that of the global average, with Canada’s north warming at three to four times that rate. Climate change is...

An overview of SNOMED CT – the most comprehensive clinical terminology in use worldwide and the benefits it offers for health systems globally. SNOMED CT is a comprehensive, multilingual healthcare terminology created by healthcare professionals. SNOMED CT can unite health systems with structured clinical terminology, enabling communication and understanding for better, more efficient patient care,...

An overview of the psychological struggle many professional traders experience and how they can circumvent common pitfalls and save time. Fear is one of the primary factors behind failure to achieve consistent success. It is impossible to eliminate emotion from trading, though one can learn to control their response to the emotional challenges from engaging with the financial markets. A trading strate...

In today’s demanding and fast-paced medical environment, physicians are challenged by time constraints, information overload, and waning job satisfaction. Assistive AI technologies offer promising solutions to the signal-to-noise conundrum in medicine. The avalanche of clinical and administrative information demands a balance between discerning the relevant signal and filtering out the incessant noi...

This paper presents the journey towards the European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EEHRxF) as a process of standardisation as social actors in Europe accept how necessary it is for digital health interoperability to be a reality to reap the benefits of digital transformation. The way the XpanDH project is set up and how it is providing its contribution to this effort is presented with a ref...

A huge amount of data is generated in healthcare. How can healthcare organisations process and benefit from this data? This article explores the use of business intelligence tools for data-driven decisions and insight. With the expansion of diagnostics methods in healthcare, the amount of data generated, captured, and copied by devices has increased. According to Statista, 181 terabytes of data will be...

For-profit hospitals are getting an ever-increasing share of the healthcare market. Since they do not structurally outperform other ownership types, questions arise on the desirability of this trend. For-profit strategies, such as consolidation, segmentalisation, and turnaround management, will affect the future hospital landscape and may disrupt current one-size-fits-all hospitals. For-profit hospita...