Pandemic Legal Database
COVID-19 spurred a vast increase in urgent legislative action directed at controlling the disease. However, poor design, implementation... Read more
Lockdowns in LMICs: Finding the Balance
The economic fallout from pandemic-related lockdowns has been enormous, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) that struggle... Read more
Silent Transmission as Pandemic’s Driving Force
Empirical studies indicate that COVID-19 cases may be most infectious during the presymptomatic phase of the disease, which baffles experts... Read more
Refusal to Be Tested: What to Do?
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major disruption to regular healthcare services. As the novel coronavirus is highly contagious, hospitals need... Read more
Report Errors to Improve Practice
Medical errors must be prevented as much as possible so as not to jeopardise patient safety. In nursing, studies have found that the most... Read more
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Blog Posts
Nurse's View: Is There Life After COVID-19?
In the UK the incidence numbers are going down, which is a relief to see and to feel. I was pretty down at the beginning of 2021 and hope seemed far away. Four weeks down the line, and I am happier again. I can see what the huge vaccination programme (over 13% of the U.K. population has been vaccinated) has brought... Read more
Modern Digital Health: Inaugurations, Digital Health and Powerful Women
A pandemic-free text. In a season of inaugural addresses, I am humbled to have one of my own... As this new year begins, I begin it with the launch of this column – a space where, once a month, I will serve as an observer in this ever-expanding healthcare ecosystem. From my vantage point as a business school law... Read more
Affidea Case – Building a Highway Towards Healthcare Digitisation
Digital technologies are impacting our way of living on a daily basis allowing customers to shop online, make travelling arrangements, use banking services, educational platforms, without physical presence. Healthcare was adopting innovative technologies aiming to increase accuracy of medical outcomes but embracing digital tools for online services... 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
Innovation and a Unique Experience at EAHM 2019
The 28th congress of the European Association of Hospital Managers... Read more
Advances in monitoring expired CO2 in critically ill patients
Reviews the potential uses and pitfalls of capnography in critically... Read more
COVID-19 Care Continuum
Think back to January 1, 2020. Can you even remember what the outlook... Read more
Artificial Intelligence in healthcare: What is versus what will be
Artificial intelligence will alter healthcare as we know it, augmenting... Read more
How to energise collaborative thinking: 5 tips to trash bad habits
For better team cooperation and project success, ‘collaborative thinking’... Read more
Game-Changing Meeting of Minds: Radiology and Imaging Informatics
A visionary radiologist explains how the European Society of Medical... Read more