Avoiding Emergency Hospital Admissions
A new study has identified a series of innovations that can help address the problem of unnecessary emergency admissions. The study is published... Read more
Dealing with Transgender Patients
A pilot training program that was implemented in an urban clinic shows that it is possible to change attitudes towards transgender individuals... Read more
Groundbreaking Study: Longer Surgical Residents Shifts Benefit Patients
According to a recent study, allowing surgeons-in-training the flexibility to work longer shifts than currently allowed in U.S. and to be able... Read more
Evidence-based Practice: Shocking Low Implementation
A new study reveals why healthcare organisations fall short of improving patient outcomes and reducing costs. The study is published in Worldviews... Read more
3 Ways to Catalyse Healthcare Improvement
Innovations are key to improving quality of care and lowering costs. Some innovations that work in one context, however, may not work in another.... 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
HealthManagement.org Welcomes New IT Editor-in-Chief
HealthManagement.org is excited to introduce our new Editor-in-Chief for... Read more
Embedding sustainability into clinical medicine and medical education
Why it should and how it can be done How one healthcare body is... Read more
The payer determines, but it is not the patient
In healthcare patients are not consumers with the economic power they have... Read more
María Jesús Díaz Candamio
Radiologist - Servicio de Radiología, Complejo Hospitalario de A Coruña,... Read more
COVID-19 Superheroes
COVID-19 has affected 15 million people across the globe, and me Read more
Whole-body ultrasound in the intensive care unit
Bedside ultrasound of the whole body Whole-body ultrasound can be used... 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,...