How to Improve Revenue Collection
Consumers now pay a greater share of their health insurance coverage out-of-pocket mainly for two reasons: higher deductibles and employers... Read more
Want to Develop Diversity? Call in the Experts
Inequalities persist in the workplace. In a healthcare setting, such disparities reduce access to care, keep minority workers in poverty,... Read more
Disaster-Proof Hospitals for Vulnerable Zones
The Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System recently opened its new hospital in New Orleans. Architects say the new 1.7-million-square-foot... Read more
Trump “Dream Team”: Tom Price to lead HHS, Seema Verma to lead CMS
President-elect Donald Trump has announced that Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price will take over the U.S. Department of Health and Human... Read more
VBC: Making Changes that Last
Value based care has been triggering big changes across the healthcare sector. When the results start to show in the form of better patient... 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
Is blockchain technology the solution to healthcare’s data woes?
In healthcare, blockchain is widely regarded as technology that will... Read more
Persistent Organ Failure Before Death in Patients with Severe Sepsis
Intensivists are used to describing the patient’s condition at the time... Read more
Supply Chain Management Success Story
Canadian Supply Chain Management Association Offers New Take on Standardising... Read more
The Business Case for Person-Centred Care
While some choices in healthcare may be limited due to circumstantial ... Read more
The Night Falls in the ICU: Changing Realities for Patients, Relatives & Interdisciplinary Team
Night has fallen in the intensive care unit, and the medical team... Read more
RESET 2021 – What Worked, What Failed, What Comes Now
A report of the digital conference on Reset 2021, organised 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,...