Save Lives: Clean Your Hands
Preventing infections and reducing an avoidable burden on health systems is still critical around the world today and is part of making sure... Read more
Small U.S. Hospital Employs Data Analytics To Improve Performance
A small, rural hospital in Georgia has implemented its own business intelligence strategy that employs data analytics to help clinicians... Read more
UK Nurse Migrant Levy Confirmed
The British government had confirmed that employers which recruit nurses from abroad will have to pay an annual levy devised to discourage employment... Read more
Poor e-Roster Training Leads to High Stress
Ward managers are over-stressed owing to a lack of basic training in essential areas such as electronic rostering, a Nursing Times report says.... Read more
New Quick Guide Supports Patients’ Choices
I’m pleased that Healthwatch England has been able to help NHS England develop its latest Quick Guide , aiming to support patients’ choices... 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
Multimodality Neuromonitoring in Critically Ill Patients
Without Primary Acute Brain Injury This review focuses on the current... Read more
The Role of Gamification and Engagement Design in the Future of Healthcare
Gamification is on the rise right now as a powerful tool to change... Read more
Ignacio Martinez Soriano
Data Scientist, Hospital UNI VERSITARIO Rafael Méndez, Lorca, Spain... Read more
Optimising nutrition for recovery after ICU
Optimising nutrition and metabolism post-ICU for recovery of functional... Read more
Future-proofing health to meet sustainable development goals
Can the integration of sex and gender policies reset the agenda?... Read more
Top killers
In healthcare, the tendency is more on managing events after they... 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,...