MEDICON Opens with Medicine's Roots Remembered
MEDICON, the three-day congress on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, opened in Paphos, Cyprus today with delegates from Europe,... Read more
Crisis, What Crisis? Clinical Engineers on Cost Cutting at MEDICON
The role that Clinical Engineers have played in developing and implementing health technology and, ultimately, cost cutting in healthcare, goes... Read more
Researchers To Study Why 50% of Italian Village Are Centenarians
300 People Have Low Rates of Heart Disease and Alzheimer’s Researchers in the United States and Italy have teamed up to study... Read more
Hospital Meals: Sit Up for Better Health
New research published in Journal of Advanced Nursing has confirmed what healthcare professionals have always known; patients often eat poorly,... Read more
New President for EPF
On the occasion of the European Patients’ Forum (EPF) Annual General Meeting, EPF members elected five new board members, a new President... Read more
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Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions – Making Waves in 2020
During the past decade, healthcare systems have been expanding their avenues to serve countries around the globe, breaking free from conventional norms. Today, these organisations are on the lookout for well-planned strategies to accelerate the growth patterns and increase cost efficiency. The key to meet these goals necessitates merger and acquisition (M&A)... Read more
COVID-19 Superheroes
It is five in the morning as a healthcare worker gets out of bed. Let us call her Emma. She is self-isolated from the rest of the family in her own home. It has been months since she hugged her children and her husband. She gets ready and heads out to work. It is barely seven in the morning when she begins her shift – one of many dozens she... Read more
My COVID-19 Superhero
My COVID-19 Superhero is my sister, Loretta Bowen. We are a family of eight children; our father has passed and our mother is 85. Elaine Rohr has Parkinson’s disease and over the last few years has gotten worse. She is no longer able to cook or write and it is frustrating for her to have such limitations in her activity of daily living.... Read more
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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
Evaluation of the Microbial Tightness of Mini-Spike® 2 Chemo V - A Closed System Transfer Device
2019 08 Aug
In vitro study validating the microbial barrier function by means of airborne contamination Jürgen Gebel, Sapuna Kuriakose, Barbara Grüter, Martin Exner; University of Bonn Hospital, Institute for Hygiene and Public Health, Germany BACKGROUND Nosocomial infections pose a major problem in the healthcare system because they contribute... Read more
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Staff matters
People are the backbone of healthcare systems. With staff costs up... Read more
Emergency pre-hospital care challenges: Greece
The ongoing economic crisis in Greece and inflow of refugees has led... Read more
Technology innovations in delivering accurate nutrition
Preventing malnutrition and enforcing nutritional guidelines ... Read more
Cardio-Oncology: A Developing Specialty for Comprehensive Cardiac Care
Over the past several decades there have been significant and important... Read more
Brexit's Brutal Blow to the NHS
“I’m sorry. I’m just so sorry.” It’s 8am. Two junior doctors, one... Read more
Whistleblowing in healthcare
Although healthcare workers have a responsibility to raise concerns about... Read more