Considerable Gaps with UHC
Universal health coverage (UHC) means enabling all people to receive necessary healthcare services without experiencing financial burden.... Read more
Clinical Decision Support For Prostate Cancer Care
Urologists at University Hospital Basel are rising to the challenge of providing evidence-based prostate cancer treatment in an age of multidisciplinary... Read more
WHO Survey Focusses on Disruptions to Essential Health Services
Over 100 countries from five regions participated in the World Health Organization (WHO) survey on the impact of COVID-19 on health systems.... Read more
Supply Management in Pandemic: Mayo’s Experience
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen major disruptions to supply chains around the world in all sectors, but especially in healthcare. Head... Read more
Explaining Linear COVID-19 Spread
During the initial wave of the COVID-19 contagion, many countries recorded infection curves that were linear for extended time periods. This... 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
Creating the Dream Team in Radiology
Summary: A modern successful radiology department team needs top-flight... Read more
New Health Care Delivery
New care-delivery models should include screening, preventive check-ups... Read more
Elderly Care in the ICU: Professor Bertrand Guidet
Professor Bertrand Guidet is Director, Medical Intensive Care, St. Antoine... Read more
Hyperthermia. An amplifier for radiation therapy.
Hyperthermia can further enhance the therapeutic outcomes of radiation... Read more
Guiding Population Health Strategy with Visual Data
An emerging management approach in healthcare delivery is that of a migration... Read more
A Value-Based Approach to Atrial Fibrillation
Enhancing Atrial Fibrillation Procedure Flow Garners Profound Results... 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,...