Reassessing Hospital Cost Management
According to Bruce Halowell, the Managing Director of Navigant Healthcare, many top-level managers in hospitals focus on the wrong issues and... Read more
Hospital Invests in Sustaining Local Community
St. Luke's Hospital is helping preserve it midtown neighbourhood and has taken on the role of residential real estate developer. Westport... Read more
Cancer Drug Costs Need to Drop
In a manifesto, a group of eminent oncologists note how the steep prices of cancer drugs are affecting the care of patients with cancer. They... Read more
Better Medication Management Reduces Readmissions
According to the American Heart Association, poor medication adherence costs the healthcare system approximately $300 billion annually due to... Read more
Better Resource Management Minimises Weekend Mortality
Since several studies have now shown that patients admitted to hospitals during the weekend are more likely to die and have serious complications,... 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
Radiology in the Care Continuum
Where do you see radiology’s place in the care continuum? I see... Read more
A Healthcare Chat Bot Named Shaila
AUTOMATISED HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATION ON THE RISE In April this... Read more
3D printing at the Jacobs Institute: an update
A t t he f o re f r o n t o f n e u r... Read more
How Data Intelligence Will Be Crucial for Predicting the Next Pandemic
Artificial intelligence developments in machine and deep learning... Read more
Calling China’s champions for global health
How the economic giant is advancing healthcare across the globe ... Read more
Two Paths for Medical Device Approval: FDA vs. CE
Several factors influence the length of time it takes for a medical device,... 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,...