Back to School: Report Card Feedback Effective for Training Surgeons?
One-on-one feedback and written report cards are effective tools for helping surgery residents do better in preventing dangerous blood clots... Read more
Lowest Hospital Spending: Not Where You Think
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics analysed the real... Read more
Patients Recording Surgery: Transparency or Medical Trainwreck?
StatNews talks about the recent debate in healthcare over whether patients should be allowed to record their surgical procedures. Jennifer... Read more
6 Ways to Make Your Workforce More Flexible
Healthcare workers tend to work in an environment which comes with many professional boundaries. These boundaries often limit their ability... Read more
A Hospital Manager’s Guide to Antimicrobial Copper
Upgrading selected touch surfaces to Antimicrobial Copper is a simple but effective measure that is shown to reduce costly infections, freeing... 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
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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
COVID-19 from the Perspective of Telemedicine
A retired physician offers insights into COVID-19 telemedicine following... Read more
Cancer patients in the intensive care unit
Recent advances and new challenges. It has been thought for years... Read more
Hot Topics in Intensive Care in Turkey
In Turkey intensive care was not a separate specialty for years, and was... Read more
COVID-19 and the History of Pandemics
How are we dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons we can... Read more
Nuclear Cardiology: Molecular Insights into the Heart
Summary: Nuclear cardiology is a promising field located between research,... Read more
Challenges in the Management of the Critically Ill Patient
Interview with Massimo Antonelli, Professor of Intensive Care and Anaesthe 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,...