Understanding US Cancer Care Spending in 2018
The 15 most prevalent cancers incurred a cost of $156.2 billion in 2018. Breast cancer patients contributed to the highest number of services... Read more
Portugal’s Eligible Population Is 98% Vaccinated
Last January, Portugal’s healthcare system was undergoing collapse, with hospitals overflowing and intensive care beds running out. At that... Read more
NICE Published Positive Experience Guidelines for Baby, Child, and Adolescent Healthcare
Optimal patient experience is an integral part of effective healthcare. Therefore, the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence... Read more
10 October 2021 - Celebrating “World Mental Health Day”
“World Mental Health Day,” celebrated 10 October every year, is a global campaign advocating mental health and educating the public. The World Federation... Read more
FDA Approves Pfizer COVID-19 Boosters for Older and At-Risk People
Today, 23 September, the US FDA amended the EUA for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to permit a booster dose for those who are 65 years... Read more
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How Lack of Accepted Standards Prevents Connected Health from Taking Off
Lack of globally accepted standards in health data management hampers the advancement of Connected Health, which we hope, can give the world faster, cheaper, and more accessible preventive healthcare. With thousands and thousands of personal medical sensors available on the market, dozens of electronic health record systems used at hospitals,... Read more
Mechanical Thrombectomy – should we rethink how we treat stroke?
Stroke is not a risk for older people exclusively. Across all types of stroke, we need to remember that a quarter of them occur in people under 65. 1 We know the combination of a decrease in deaths from stroke and an increase in actual stroke events means more people will survive and live with the impact of stroke. The burden of stroke is likely... Read more
Awareness, Education, Prevention and Government
In September of this year, our group of international patient advocates and scholar-activists had a congress at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. We had several good discussions about prevention, breast cancer prevention, and early diagnostics and prevention of HPV-related cancers. Mostly, we discussed cervical cancer but learned... Read more
White Papers and Case Studies
Clinical Decision Support for Prostate Cancer Care
2021 08 Oct
Executive Summary Cancer care is becoming increasingly complex and personalized. More and more patient characteristics and disease specific data – clinical history, comorbidities, imaging, laboratory data, genomics/ proteomics, lifestyle factors, pathology results – have to be factored in when deciding on diagnostic measures and care pathways.... Read more
Improving Medical Technology Management Through Value Partnerships
2021 03 Aug
Executive Summary Value Partnerships™ are the enduring relationships that Siemens Healthineers forges with customers in order to optimize operations, expand capabilities, and advance innovation within healthcare enterprises. One of the areas where optimization can transform care delivery and improve patient experience is in the holistic management... Read more
How to Create the Healing Environment of the Future
2021 03 Aug
The human-centered approach to healthcare facility planning and design. Executive Summary Transforming care delivery through facility design and planning Healthcare environments continue to evolve, with new pressures from patients, staff, and payers driving care providers to be more people-centered and value-driven. Meeting the challenges... Read more
From Our Journals
Social media: getting it right in the marketing plan
Leveraging digital resources is the key to successful marketing Reed... Read more
Regional Radiology Collaboratives - Benefits of Intelligent Networking?
The Yorkshire Imaging Collaborative (YIC) is a combined technology and... Read more
Putting the patient at ease - 10 steps to better communication.
When it comes to physician-patient communication, tone is key, from... Read more
Traversing the Unknown Frontlines - COVID-19 from a Resource Limited East African Setting
The purpose of this article is to provide frontline clinical and operational Read more
Healthcare Warriors of India
In India, the challenges of COVID-19 are exacerbated by the density... Read more
Remote Patient Monitoring for Safe and Effective Management of COVID-19 Patients
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) and the role it can play in the early... Read more
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Comarch Diagnostic Point
Comarch Diagnostic Point High demand for accessible and convenient healthcare has led to the rapid development of telemedicine services. Among these services are diagnostic points, which allow proper care to be provided to patients – anywhere,...