Point-of-View Articles

Point-of-View - United Imaging Healthcare

Global Medical Health: Advancing Diagnostic Excellence

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...

Point-of-View - Straumann Group

DSO Profitability Fueled by Data-Driven Insights

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...

Point-of-View - Affidea

The Shift From Gatekeeper to the Consumer in Healthcare Services

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...

Point-of-View - FP Markets

The Distinction Between Trading and Investing

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...

Point-of-View - Straumann Group

Digitisation for DSOs

Discover why dental support organisations must go digital and how they can do so. Four guiding principles can help DSOs select and implement digital initiatives that result in optimised efficiencies, consistent treatment outcomes, and an improved experience for both patients and providers that fuels the stability and growth of organisations. Digitisation is essential to the continued growth and stabil...

Point-of-View - Affidea

One Ring to Rule Them All in AI

Artificial Intelligence in radiology is growing at a rapid pace. Alessandro Roncacci, SVP and CMO of Affidea, and Stéphane Maquaire, GM for Europe at Incepto Medical, reveal the dynamic partnership in Portugal, bringing to the national level the benefits and added value of AI solutions. What is the current landscape of artificial intelligence in radiology, and what is Incepto’s vi...

Point-of-View

Business Continuity Management in Medical Technology: Ensuring Uninterrupted Healthcare Services

The article emphasises the importance of Business Continuity Management (BCM) in medical technology to ensure uninterrupted healthcare services. It discusses the need for BCM, challenges in implementation, benefits, and best practices. The focus is on identifying potential disruptions, developing response plans, and maintaining effective communication. BCM in Medical Technology: The article highlights...

Point-of-View - United Imaging Healthcare

Latest Advances in MRI

Thanks to a partnership with FORA S.p.A., United Imaging Healthcare’s first OMEGA uMR is now present in Europe. The uMR Omega™, the first ever 75cm, Ultra-wide-bore 3.0T MRI, has been recently installed in the world-renowned IRCSS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria hospital. Since the hospital’s establishment in 1922, this impressive 549-bed institution has been the Veneto...

Point-of-View - Mindray

Mindray Resona R9 Platinum Edition – A New Leap for Precision Ultrasound

Powered by ZONE Sonography Technology, this state-of-the-art Resona R9 takes clinical intelligence to new heights, providing a complete solution for both diagnostic and interventional ultrasound needs. Designed to streamline workflow and ensure consistent and accurate results, the Resona R9 offers advanced intelligent tools such as high frame rate CEUS, high frame rate STE, uHIT, iFusion, VFlow, and...

The Patient Is the DATA

With the advent of digital technology in healthcare, data has become an essential component of modern healthcare delivery. The availability of patient data is crucial for providing quality care, managing patient privacy and safety, and promoting patient engagement. However, data silos and the lack of interoperability between healthcare systems have made it difficult to access patient data across the entire...

Affidea

Breaking Down Barriers: Finding the Sweet Spot Between Affordability and High-Quality

As healthcare costs continue to rise,patients, Insurance companies and other payorsand healthcare providers alike face the challenge of balancing high-quality care with affordability. It is essential for healthcare systems to provide patients with the care they need at a price they can afford without comprom...

Point-of-View – Cybersecurity – Preventing the Worst-Case Scenario

Challenges, Strategies and Recommendations to Improve Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is vital for the effective functioning of healthcare organisations and protecting private and important patient information and data. HealthManagement.org spoke to Dan Brown, Chief Technology Officer, Tim Hill, Global Security and Privacy Program Manager and Jarius Jackson, Data Protection Officer & Security & Privacy Tech Specialist at Agfa HealthCare, to discuss the main challenges...

Point-of-View - Successful Digitilisation Pathways

Unlocking the Power of Data to Transform Patient Care

Cloud computing revealed its tangible positive impact on health outcomes during one of the worst global health crises. But we’re still only scratching the surface of what’s possible. By eliminating data silos and enabling providers to view complete medical histories, interoperability stands to provide a better patient experience and empower individuals to take greater control over their health care.The...

Point-of-View - Disease Assessment and Management

Syncope Diagnosis, Treatment and Management

James Frith is a consultant physician and geriatrician in Newcastle, England. He is also a researcher at the Newcastle University. His academic interests focus on orthostatic hypotension, in particular, the non-drug treatments of orthostatic hypotension that significantly overlap with falls and syncope. HealthManagement. org spoke to Dr Frith on the importance of accurate syncope diagnosis and effective tre...

Point-of-View - Medical Imaging

Future Trends in Radiology and Healthcare

An overview of the big trends in radiology/healthcare and what this means for the future of radiology, GE Healthcare and the industry. Data will need to be more integrated to provide longitudinal insights, enabling quicker and more impactful decision-making with Artificial Intelligence (AI).Staff shortages and burnout among radiologists have been an issue for years and are now more widespread than ever....

Point-of-View - Clinical Care Management

Point-of-Care EEG in the ICU: Towards a New Standard of Seizure Care

Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is often invisible or impossible to distinguish from other sources of altered mental status. Without immediate and continuous access to EEG monitoring, physicians must treat without confirmation or delay their diagnosis. Point-of-Care EEG is helping to close both these gaps and make EEG accessible across health networks. Electrographic seizures have major implicatio...

Point-of-View Clinical Care Management

Stability in the Face of Change

An interview with Joerge Aumueller providing an overview of the changes in the dental industry giving rise to dental service organisations and the challenges they face in fulfilling the promise of consolidation, creating a greater end-to-end experience for patients and strengthening operations and efficiency. Dental service organisations (DSOs) can lead the way in dentistry’s transformation as a technolo...

Point-of-View - Effective Workforce Transformation

Effective Workforce Transformation in Healthcare

HealthManagement.org spoke to Dr Nicholas Spencer, Chief Clinical Information Officer for Northern Europe, Agfa HealthCare and Roberto Anello, Managing Director for Northern Europe, Agfa HealthCare to gain insight on workforce transformation, collaboration networks, integrated care systems and application of technology and Artificial Intelligence in healthcare. Agfa HealthCare’s class-leading solution, th...

Point-of-View - Effective Workforce Transformation

Increasing Care Demand and Growing Workforce Shortage

Healthcare staff shortages are a growing global issue. At the same time, ageing populations and an increasing burden of chronic diseases are driving up demand for healthcare. The gap between rising demand and a shortage of healthcare workers is looming. HealthManagement.org spoke to Sourabh Pagaria, Executive Vice President & Managing Director of the Southern European business of Siemens Healthineers, o...

Point-of-View - Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

A New Era in Operational Excellence - Predicting With Precision to Enable Better Patient Care

An overview of new technologies by Affidea designed to improve patient experience and medical outcomes while making clinical operations safer. Unplanned downtime from clinical equipment can negatively affect every aspect of the care delivery.Innovation is part of Affidea’s DNA, and it comes to offer an outstanding patient experience, proven clinical outcomes and high safety standards.Affidea has become...