Point-of-View Articles
Point-of-View articles on trending topics, winning practices and cross-collaboration in healthcare.
Dr Herbert Staehr
Point-of-View - Decision Support
Unlocking Digital Tools to Expand Access to Healthcare
An overview of the emergence of digital front doors, their potential and key points to bear in mind during the technological transition.For decades, basic healthcare interaction has been a human one. However, the limitations of this system are now becoming more and more apparent.Patients today are demanding fast, convenient, easy and affordable service.Primary care physicians are no longer the first option...
Dr. Bruno De Peuter
Point-of-View - Enterprise Imaging
Transformation of Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg Hospital
Dr Bruno De Peuter, Head of Medical Imaging and Musculoskeletal Radiology Specialist at Belgian hospital Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, explains how the hospital transformed itself into a modern, well-respected, tertiary care centre. Over the past few decades, the medical imaging department at Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL) has experienced a major transformation. With 30 radiologists on-site and four sites...
Point-of-View - Decision Support
Telehealth Platforms: The Foundation for Digital Transformation
An overview of the role of digital transformation in the healthcare space, particularly the adoption of telehealth solutions during the pandemic and an outlook of the future of telehealth solutions and the momentum of digitalisation in healthcare. During the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation efforts in healthcare have accelerated, especially in the telehealth sphere.Remote patient monitoring is her...
Prof. Michele Brignole
Point-of-View - Disease Assessment and Management
The Importance of Syncope Assessment, Diagnosis and Management
Professor Michele Brignole is the the coordinator of the Faint & Fall programme at the IRCCS Istituto Auxologico, Milan, Italy. He was formerly the Director of the Department of Cardiology of Ospedali del Tigullio, Lavagna, Italy. Prof Brignole’s main fields of research are diagnosis, pathophysiology, therapy of syncope and rhythm disturbances and catheter ablation of arrhythmias. He served as the cha...
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Dare to Change!
An overview of the successful collaboration between Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch (CHEM) and Agfa HealthCare and the implementation of the Enterprise Imaging platform. The Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch (CHEM) is the biggest hospital in the southern region of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. 1861 staff and 258 doctors work across three sites to care for 100,000 patients per year. But from an inform...
Dr Alessandro Roncacci
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Peer Review System: Collaborative Learning to Achieve Clinical Excellence
An overview of Affidea’s Peer Review system that allows radiology teams to learn and grow together and benefit from each other’s expertise and experience for better clinical outcomes. At Affidea, we aim to create a strong culture of quality where every member of the clinical team feels empowered and encouraged to participate in the process of improving patient care. We do this through various syst...
Marcin Wiśniewski, PhD
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AI vs Human: The Use of Artificial Intelligence for Medical Analysis
An overview of the role of Artificial Intelligence during the treatment process and implementation of AI algorithms to increase patient awareness and improve access to anonymised data. Artificial intelligence has been pushing itself into the digital space of the medical industry for several years. Recently, however, this process has accelerated significantly. Newer and more effective diagnostic algorithm...
Prof Kyriakos Lobotesis
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Does Mechanical Thrombectomy Provide Economic Benefit In Ischaemic Stroke?
The impact of COVID-19 on stroke services and using mechanical thrombectomy and best medical management, as per national guidelines, for patients with large vessel occlusion-related acute ischaemic stroke. In the last 20 years, death rates from stroke have fallen mostly due to successful prevention strategies such as hypertension control and smoking cessation (https://strokeeurope.eu/). Although it is p...
Dr. Jürgen Fortin
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Diagnosing Initial Orthostatic Hypotension – The Race Against Sudden Blood Pressure Drops
Initial Orthostatic Hypotension (OH) is described as a rapid and transient drop in blood pressure associated with the increased risk of falls, fractures and syncope, especially in the ageing population (Tran et al. 2021). As prevalence is high, the problem is evident, but due to limited access to reliable continuous diagnostic methods, the detection of OH is restricted. Experts demand continuous blood press...
Alicja Warmusz
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Can Telemedicine Save Money? Case Study of Comarch Diagnostic Point in the Workplace
A case study of Comarch Diagnostic Point and its application and results at a large organisation with twenty offices in Italy. We speak a lot about equity, equal treatment, equal access to care. But does it include workplaces? After all, we all spend a lot of time there. Employers care for their employees health in many ways. But how can a big company with several offices all over the country or all ov...
Michal Kwiecinski
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Patient Pathway Digitisation – More Than Meets the Eye
An overview of the patient pathway digitisation process and the tools and strategies that can facilitate the journey of digitisation in radiology. Can digitisation of patient pathways create seamless patient interactions with healthcare providers and enable novel ways of cooperation between clinicians?To what extent, in the design of digital tools, can we draw on the experience of other service industries...
Matt Jewett
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Digital Solutions Are the Now and the Future of Diabetes Management
Diabetes is a chronic disease that requires daily management including lifestyle and behavioural modifications, compliance with medications, blood glucose control and close patient monitoring, all of which can be efficiently supported by digital solutions. Diabetes is a global health crisis. Recent estimates suggest the incidence of diabetes will increase to 1 in 10 adults by 2040 (Bommer et al. 2018). It...
Torbjorn Skold
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The Wait is Almost Over – An Imminent Return to Elective Orthopedic Surgeries
Torbjorn Skold and Prof David Barrett, one of the design surgeons for ATTUNE Knee System, explore ways to tackle the backlog in orthopedics and get more people moving pain free. Osteoarthritis is one of the most frequent diseases leading to the need for joint replacement.Medical professionals face huge challenges in addressing the mounting quantity of cases.One major goal is to reduce the waiting lists. Th...
Daniel Fascia
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Regional Radiology Collaboratives - Benefits of Intelligent Networking?
The Yorkshire Imaging Collaborative (YIC) is a combined technology and business transformation project which unified radiology imaging and report-sharing between 8 NHS trusts across Yorkshire, including the recently established NHS Nightingale Hospital Yorkshire and the Humber. Dr Daniel Fascia has extensive experience in radiology practices and technologies and has been in post as the Clini...
Xavier Battle
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The Benefits of Connected Care and Better Utilisation of Patient Data in Healthcare
Connecting care teams and patients can drive patient engagement and help improve treatment processes that can facilitate cooperative care. HealthManagement.org spoke to Xavier Battle, the head of Marketing and Sales for the Digital Health Business Line for Siemens Healthineers, about the importance and benefits of connected care, the use and application of real-time data, Artificial Intelligence and wearabl...
Sourabh Pagaria
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Developing Connected Healthcare Systems and Accelerating Digital Transformation
With urban populations increasing worldwide and technology making smart cities a reality, there is a great potential of improving healthcare services by expanding them beyond the hospital walls. Both immediate health emergencies, such as COVID-19, and long-term strategies can be addressed with new, tech-driven solutions supported by enhanced community care. HealthManagement.org spoke to Sourabh Pagaria, He...
Prof. Sergey Morozov
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With the URIS, the Moscow Health Care Department Has Laid the Foundations for Connected Care
300 modalities, 1500 radiologists, 1500+ technicians, 10,000 referring physicians, 500,000 patients… Moscow’s Unified Radiological Information System (URIS) and its unified digital infrastructure have become a ‘one stop shop’ to access patient imaging data across the megalopolis and beyond. And a core component of URIS is the unified Enterprise Imaging platform, offering the scalability and functio...
Dr Alessandro Roncacci
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Patient Safety As Gold Standard in the Era of Big Data
Affidea launches an innovative Business Intelligence Tool for real-time radiation dose monitoring to improve patient care. The use of a new technology built on GE Healthcare’s Applied Intelligence platform and imaging insights.Better data integration and analysis through the use of the Affidea Dose Excellence programme, a unique global programme for patient safety and radiation protection.The launch of a...
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The Cost of Keeping the Imaging Status Quo
As demand for diagnostic imaging continues to increase, it is important for hospitals and radiology departments to trade in the imaging status quo of the isolated silo for a consolidated approach such as Enterprise Imaging. Hospitals today have to deal with an assortment of disparate, standalone systems that have different capabilities and functions and are often inefficient, fragmented and costly. Diagnost...
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Data Integration and Decision Support Along the Patient Pathway
An overview of a decision support platform that offers holistic decision support along the continuum of care, bringing together a wide variety of healthcare data from diverse IT systems with a vendor-neutral design and user-friendly solutions. As healthcare processes become more digital, there has been tremendous growth in health data from electronic medical records, image databases, and other fragmented IT...