Cancer Research UK: Delays That Could Have Been Avoided
A quarter of cancer patients experienced delays, which could have been avoided, during the diagnostics, shows a recent study by Cancer Research... Read more
Agfa Negotiates the Sale of a Part of Its Healthcare IT Business
The Agfa-Gevaert Group announced on December 2 the launch of exclusive negotiations with Dedalus Holding S.p.A., aiming to sell a part... Read more
NHS Is Lagging Behind Other Countries
Indicators of spending, patient safety and population health demonstrated by the UK National Health Service (NHS), are below average to average... Read more
Voice-to-Text Made Easy with Amazon
Amazon continues its expansion into the healthcare sector. On 2 December, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company's cloud computing... Read more
MEDICA+COMPAMED 2019: New Products, New Solutions, New Ideas
Providers worldwide are adapting to the increasing challenges in markets of medical technology and medical products by introducing innovations... Read more
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Patient’s Voice to Cancel Cancer: Autonomy for Patient and Oncologist – That Helps
Let’s start with a quip. When you want to become an oncologist, you only need three or four years of primary school. You need to be able to read and write. The pathologist will tell you what type of cancer the patient has, you can read in the protocol what to do, what the treatment is, and for the dose you need to know: ‘Is it a man or a woman,... Read more
Nurse’s View: “How Are You, Nurse?”
If somebody had asked me this question, “How are you, nurse?” 6-8 weeks ago, I would have probably cried. The situation in Great Britain was pretty tough, worse than in March-April 2020, when the whole crisis of COVID-19 started for us in the UK! I guess no other European country had to go through that bushfire we have to go through with the... Read more
Patients’ Voice to Cancel Cancer: From Shooting In the Dark We Can Become a Sniper
“Cancer is a mobile disease. It changes while you look at it. Treat it like tuberculosis; 4 drugs for one year, at the same time!” Professor David Tuveson, CSHL We do not execute what we already know! Patients are dying because the scientific knowledge that is available today is not implemented to improve the... Read more
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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
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Vasoactive Drugs in Sepsis
In this update review on vasoactive drugs in sepsis, we focus on the... Read more
Managing Change to Improve Clinical Outcomes
In 1989, Professor Andrew Walton founded Connect Health,... Read more
Operationalising AI in radiology
Implementation and integration challenges Over the last few years,... Read more
Supply Chain Management Success Story
Canadian Supply Chain Management Association Offers New Take on Standardising... Read more
Artificial intelligence and radiology: human-machine collaboration is key
Human-machine collaboration is key. Should radiologists be buying... Read more
Medicine, Technology and Humanity Intertwined: Rambam Health Care Campus
RAMBAM HEALTH CARE CAMPUS The philosophy at Rambam Health... Read more
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