Should Poor End-of-Life Care Still Get Accreditation?
In 2013 65 percent of hospitals with a minimum of 50 beds confirmed that they had a palliative care programme. Hospitals with in excess of... Read more
Digital Healthcare? Consumers Not Really Interested
Patients can now shop for care, use telehealth or communicate by email with clinicians. Sounds like a brave new world but all is not... Read more
C-suite: No Egos Please
An expanded leadership role for doctors can be a key driver for transforming the needs of healthcare but both health facilities and physicians... Read more
Body Cams to Fight Patient Violence
Patient violence against healthcare workers is becoming such a serious problem in Queensland, Australia that the authorities are rolling out... Read more
How to Retain Staff: Give Out Your Cell Number
Securing and retaining healthcare staff is an increasing pressure in a competitive environment where the pool of skilled workers is decreasing.... Read more
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So Why am I Worrying Now? Thoughts from the UK on Pandemic Times
My Dear Readers, Time is flying, and here I am again, sharing my thoughts as a registered nurse working during a very dramatic time. The first half of the year of 2021 is over. If you reflect now, one can not comprehend of what has happened in the world during these last months. It is almost impossible. Where will one start and stop?... Read more
What About Post-Corona?
Is there a time after COVID-19? Do you regularly hear the question of what we will do after COVID-19? Or what should we do? This is a strange question, because there will be no time after Coronavirus. Corona is an endemic virus, that is among us and does not go away. There is also no time after Influenza. Endemic viruses are here. We need to take... Read more
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
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
Reset 2021
2020 was an eye-opener for most healthcare systems around the globe.... Read more
Leading the way in patient healthcare portals
Th e r e i s n o “ o n e - s i z e -... Read more
Virtual Consultations: Now or Never
Summary: The use of virtual consultation and telemedicine is expanding... Read more
Abelardo Vidaurreta
Head of Innovation, Salauno, Mexico City, Mexico We cannot... Read more
The Importance of Technology and Novel Solutions in Healthcare
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the world by storm. In particular, the... Read more
Chronic Disease Management using GeoAI Applications: Severe Respiratory Illness in Spain
An overview of a developmental model the authors have been working on... Read more