Uncovering Socioeconomic Health Factors
Preventing a problem is always better than fixing it, especially when it comes to health. Yet, in the healthcare industry treating medical... Read more
Talking about Genomic Testing Cost
Genomic testing is being gradually adopted in healthcare assisting in defining treatments for selected disorders. . One of the... Read more
Important Trends in Innovation and Consumer Behaviour
With the technological and behavioural landscapes in healthcare changing faster than ever before, experts apply their knowledge to identifying... Read more
Radical Interoperability As the Future of Health
Smooth exchange of health and other data — that is, interoperability — between consumers, healthcare organisations and new entrants is... Read more
Legal Challenges of Data Management
With the development of digital infrastructures in healthcare, there is growing need to work all the data available into a ‘data fabric’,... 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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eHealth – transforming healthcare in disruptive times
Where is eHealth in Ireland heading and where could it lead us? ... Read more
Artificial Intelligence: a next way forward for healthcare
The promise and the reality and how to combine the two for efficient... Read more
Lluís Donoso Bach
Editor-in-Chief Imaging, HealthManagement.org Professor of Radiology... Read more
FrailSafe System: An Innovative Approach on Frailty
Summary: Frail older people are often burdened with a range of complex... Read more
What a difference a drug makes?
Asking why the patient needs to be sedated is as important as the choice... Read more
Learning Without Limits: Massive Open Online Courses
HealthManagement interviewed FutureLearn’s Director of Partnerships... Read more
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In the intensive care unit, every move has to be right, every procedural step has to follow on seamlessly from the previous one. Stiegelmeyer spoke with the people who bear great responsibility every day in this aspect. Their wishes and requirements...