Volume 23 - Issue 3, 2023

The goal of healthcare is to promote and maintain the well-being of individuals and communities by preventing, diagnosing, treating, and managing diseases, injuries, and other health conditions. Healthcare aims to improve patient’s quality of life, enhance their life expectancy, and ensure they can have access to the services and interventions needed to stay healthy. Achieving these goals requires an org...

Global Medical Health, a top-tier diagnostic clinic in Bucharest, has recently acquired next-generation United Imaging Healthcare equipment to provide high-quality diagnostics to patients suffering from various diseases. Global Medical Health is a state-of-the-art facility that brings together leading Romanian and foreign specialists. Glo...

Modern healthcare requires a profound shift: from profit-driven models to patient-centred, value-based care, where compassion, empowerment, and holistic well-being take centre stage. To achieve this transformation, understanding patients’ values is essential, ensuring tailored, empathetic care that empowers them in decision-making. Embracing change requires courage and shared responsibility, regardless o...

Procurement plays a crucial role in achieving affordability and profitability in the healthcare sector. With ever-rising healthcare expenditures, the focus on procuring products and services efficiently and effectively is essential. Collaboration between healthcare providers as buyers and with their suppliers is vital. By embracing a broader notion of responsible procurement, healthcare providers can promo...

Learn how analyzing the right KPIs (key performance indicators) with the right tools can help DSOs to make informed decisions to maximize profitability despite variability among individual practices within the network. While the process of acquiring new practices contributes to the profitability of DSOs, it also raises unique challenges. A significant percentage of DSOs today have limited visibility i...

Healthcare is not a highly reliable industry, which may result in unacceptable harm to patients, visitors, and staff that is costly and unsustainable. Although we have made great strides in the past 20 years, there is still much work to be done to create reliable systems in healthcare. This requires a transformational mindset and the development of innovative solutions that have not been tried before....

The scale of destruction wreaked on human life and happiness by cancer hardly needs any illustration. Significant disparities exist between countries, caused primarily by differences in national wealth and income. OncoSeek provides good accuracy in detection and diagnosis and will be a game-changing and life-saving multi-cancer early detection test. 84% of the global population lives in low- and middl...

The traditional healthcare landscape across Europe is undergoing a marked shift towards a patient-centred approach. Patients are no longer passive recipients, but active participants who make informed choices when selecting their healthcare providers based on service criteria, such as proven quality, accessibility, proximity and value. This evolution reflects a consumer-oriented mindset, where ‘consumers...

Instituting patient safety practices will save lives and healthcare dollars. We are proud of our healthcare experts; it is the system that needs to be fixed, and we can do that! We can create a system where safe, high-quality healthcare is delivered to every patient every time. Healthcare must become a high-reliability organisation, and this starts at the top by creating a culture of safety throughout the...

Today’s hospitals are challenged by increasing demands and needs for hospital treatment by an ageing population and a general increase in the number of chronic patients. New players in the healthcare arena who today offer digital health services (e.g. Amazon, Google and Apple) threaten to further disrupt the current hospital landscape with new organisations and services. Hospitals can react to these chal...

An overview of the basics of the financial market, differences in trading and investing and risk management strategies. The financial market can seem confusing and is often an unnerving space for the untrained eye. Two terms that are often used interchangeably are trading and investing, despite possessing different meanings. Investing involves holding (and maintaining) a portfolio of shares, bonds, co...

The global healthcare market is entering a new era of radical growth in preventative, personalised treatments that maximises positive health outcomes and system resilience. At the heart of this opportunity is shifting the site of care – often to home and community settings. ‘Healthier at home’ solutions include stand-alone therapeutics, digital devices, or behavioural prompts. These solutions ha...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant advancements in various fields, including medical imaging, such as ultrasound (US). AI methods can be employed to enhance the analysis and interpretation of ultrasound images. The trustworthiness of AI in ultrasound depends on various factors and AI algorithms should undergo ongoing monitoring and improvement processes, and clinical expertise should always...

This article underlines the importance of the patient experience throughout the healthcare process and the requirement for health systems to give patient-centred care first priority. It introduces the Shared Patient Experience (SPX) organisation and invites experts to take part in their next colloquium to share knowledge The patient experience is a crucial aspect of healthcare journeys, directly influe...

Healthcare organisations need to navigate a complex web of federal and state regulations. This article explores the crucial role of background checks and compliance in the highly regulated healthcare industry. Both federal and state levels keep debarment lists against which healthcare operators need to screen staff continuously. Pre-screenings are beneficial as they thin out the number of people w...

Fast growing integrated health care and social organisation present a challenge due to the increased complexity of its operations.To manage the services at scale while remaining a patient-centred organisation, new tools need to be incorporated to assist members in their decision making and care quality measurement. Defining a strategic map enables a link between the strategic plan and the Balanced Sco...

In a world where AI and robotics are reshaping the landscape of healthcare, the need for close collaboration and sharing among healthcare providers, medical device companies, tech startups, patients, payers, and regulatory bodies becomes paramount. By adopting a co-era healthcare approach, where collaboration and collective effort drive innovation, integrated and patient-centric medical solutions can be de...