VBHC Prize 2020 Winners
This year’s Value-Based Health Care Prize winners were announced on 5 November. Besides the prize, four excellence awards, the Community... Read more
Post-Pandemic Healthcare: Five Forces in Focus
In a recent review of its healthcare research, Gallup has identified five main forces that will be defining the U.S. health sector in the... Read more
Prerequisites for Future Pandemic Prevention
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to batter lives and livelihoods, experts are warning about future pandemics – which can spread more... Read more
COVID-19 Vaccines: Tracking and Future Distribution
Availability of an effective vaccine is viewed as crucial in the fight against COVID-19, but researchers warn against ‘vaccine nationalism’.... Read more
Drawing from Taiwan’s COVID-19 Experience
A recent study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific have analysed the pandemic response in Taiwan and outlined a... Read more
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Patient’s Voice to Cancel Cancer: Autonomy for Patient and Oncologist – That Helps
Let’s start with a quip. When you want to become an oncologist, you only need three or four years of primary school. You need to be able to read and write. The pathologist will tell you what type of cancer the patient has, you can read in the protocol what to do, what the treatment is, and for the dose you need to know: ‘Is it a man or a woman,... Read more
Nurse’s View: “How Are You, Nurse?”
If somebody had asked me this question, “How are you, nurse?” 6-8 weeks ago, I would have probably cried. The situation in Great Britain was pretty tough, worse than in March-April 2020, when the whole crisis of COVID-19 started for us in the UK! I guess no other European country had to go through that bushfire we have to go through with the... Read more
Patients’ Voice to Cancel Cancer: From Shooting In the Dark We Can Become a Sniper
“Cancer is a mobile disease. It changes while you look at it. Treat it like tuberculosis; 4 drugs for one year, at the same time!” Professor David Tuveson, CSHL We do not execute what we already know! Patients are dying because the scientific knowledge that is available today is not implemented to improve the... 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
Managing Diversity - Pathways to a More Inclusive Future
An overview of the lack of representation of women and other minoritised... Read more
White Coats in the Boardroom
Why Executive Presence is Compulsory for Highly-Qualified Healthcare... Read more
Andy Rogers
President (2016-2018) - British Institute of Radiology, UK Read more
Novel Interventions for Early Parkinson Detection
Summary: An award-winning ICT-based early detection of Parkinson’s Disease... Read more
Smart Ageing International Research Centre
Smart Ageing International Research Center The Smart Ageing International... Read more
Logistics robots to support care: a Finnish study
H o w t o i n t r o d u c e r o b o t... Read more