Has the Pandemic Given Telehealth a Boost?
When COVID-19 came on the scene in early 2020, and in-person medical care, aside from emergencies was deemed verboten, health systems were... Read more
The Key Drivers Affecting a Patient’s Use of eHealth Tools
eHealth tools have been used to educate and monitor patient health and can provide a significant amount of disease-specific information. Despite... Read more
Healthcare Leaders Discuss Pandemic Role of the Chief Wellness Officer
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems struggled to manage the mental health and wellbeing of their diverse healthcare workforce... Read more
UN: Global Shortage of Nearly 1 Million Midwives Will Cost Lives
A new report from the United Nations raises the alarm on the number of midwives, warning that millions of lives could be saved if the shortfall... Read more
Call to Action: We Must Address Mental and Physical Needs of Female Staff
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a significant toll on women working in health and social care in the UK, a newly released report from the... Read more
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While perioperative care is optimized, patients die unmonitored in wards!
There is a high demand for a comfortable, small and mobile solution for affordable blood pressure and vital sign monitoring in the general ward to improve patient safety and outcome, as mortality after surgery is a thousand times higher than intraoperative death. 1 CNSystems has enhanced its non-invasive CNAP® technology for perioperative... Read more
Patient’s Voice to Cancel Cancer: When Accountability Becomes Responsibility
In the past decades something happened in healthcare that doesn’t benefit patients. Actually, it is what we patient advocates call ‘Dying is safer’. For some of the stakeholders in the medical industrial complex it is safer to let patients die than to act. We can think of experimental medicines for patients with an unmet medical need. Why not... Read more
Nurse’s View: Looking Back at Last 12 Months
Hello, my dear readers, Time flies, and here we are – in April 2021. The last few weeks have been quite emotional because I started to review what has happened over the last 12-13 months, that is between March 2020 – April 2021. I have only so much space to write down my thoughts here, but Jesus – we would need LIVES... Read more
White Papers and Case Studies
Liver Fibrosis: Patients Can Be At Risk Of Death Even Without Exhibiting Symptoms
2020 18 Dec
1 in 5 advanced fibrosis patients evolves to cirrhosis in as little as two and a half years. The liver is the largest gland in the human body and, weighing roughly two kilograms, it is the second largest organ after the skin. Its varied functions include supplying the brain with glucose, filtering toxins out of the blood, producing proteins,... Read more
Spotlight On: Sutter Health Fights Pneumonia One Toothbrush at a Time
2020 23 Apr
Pneumonia can be deadly in a hospital setting. Two main factors contribute to the approximately 20 percent mortality rate of this healthcare-associated infection (HAI). First, whatever condition brought the patient to the hospital in the first place has likely weakened them, making the patient more vulnerable to the illness. Plus, the germs that patients... Read more
Spotlight On: Inova Fairfax Medical Campus Reduces CLABSI with APSS #2
2020 23 Apr
HAIs are costly both in terms of harm/mortality and cost. Close attention to aseptic practices and monitoring patients can greatly reduce the incidence of these infections. Central Line-Associated Bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are the most costly type of hospital-acquired infections, both in terms of morbidity and mortality, and financial... Read more
From Our Journals
Leading change and value
An alternative approach to leadership. Diabeter employs a leadership... Read more
Secrets of innovation success
International transfer of successful lessons and strategies is essential... Read more
Putting Medical Radiation Protection First
Summary: How a European Society of Radiology flagship initiative is... Read more
The patient, the whole patient and nothing but the patient
The patient, the whole patient and nothing but the patient.... Read more
Financing micro health insurance: theory, methods and evidence
A look at innovations in harnessing voluntary and contributory micro... Read more
If You Build It, Will They Come?
On the first day of a new project, I often discover that many of my colleagues... Read more