SFS: Priority Investment in Digital Transformation
Digitalisation of healthcare helps to improve patient outcomes in a cost-efficient way. Therefore, healthcare providers widely view it... Read more
Swisslog Embraces the Evolving Healthcare Landscape via the Medication Management Supply Chain
The company announces a new brand position and corporate identity consistent with providing hospitals with connectivity between transport and... Read more
Top of Mind 2020: Patient Engagement, Data Analytics and Precision Medicine
With the ongoing transition to value-based care, the importance of technology is growing, for patient engagement increase, data management... Read more
MEDICA 2019 + COMPAMED 2019: Medical World Meets in Düsseldorf
On November 18, the world’s largest and leading medical trade fair, MEDICA 2019, is greeting visitors from all over the world. This year... Read more
EHMA 2020 Annual Conference: Call for Abstracts
European Health Management Association (EHMA) has just launched the Call for Abstracts for the EHMA 2020 Annual Conference (Rotterdam,... Read more
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So Why am I Worrying Now? Thoughts from the UK on Pandemic Times
My Dear Readers, Time is flying, and here I am again, sharing my thoughts as a registered nurse working during a very dramatic time. The first half of the year of 2021 is over. If you reflect now, one can not comprehend of what has happened in the world during these last months. It is almost impossible. Where will one start and stop?... Read more
What About Post-Corona?
Is there a time after COVID-19? Do you regularly hear the question of what we will do after COVID-19? Or what should we do? This is a strange question, because there will be no time after Coronavirus. Corona is an endemic virus, that is among us and does not go away. There is also no time after Influenza. Endemic viruses are here. We need to take... Read more
While perioperative care is optimized, patients die unmonitored in wards!
There is a high demand for a comfortable, small and mobile solution for affordable blood pressure and vital sign monitoring in the general ward to improve patient safety and outcome, as mortality after surgery is a thousand times higher than intraoperative death. 1 CNSystems has enhanced its non-invasive CNAP® technology for perioperative... 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
Radioprotection in Chest CT: An Approach with Bismuth Breast Shield
The main goal of this study was to assess the viability of the bismuth... Read more
Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare
X-ray, computed tomography, blood tests, genetic diagnostics, health... Read more
The Night in the ICU
T hey say that in the world of the intensive care unit (ICU), there... Read more
Radiology in Iran – Coming Out of Sanctions
An Overview The Iranian Society of Radiology (ISR ) is the... Read more
In Search of a Crystal Ball: Predicting Long-term Outcomes in Critically Ill Older Adults
Older adults who survive critical illness are at risk of adverse... Read more
CO2 in the critically ill
CO 2 exerts potent effects on lung biology that could be clinically relevant... Read more