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The Road Ahead
Value Based Healthcare and HIT It has been more than 10 years since Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg published their seminal book Redefining Health Care, which laid down the foundation for the revolutionary and evolutionary concept of Value Based Healthcare (VBHC). Both starting and ending with the patient experience, VBHC has...
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Samsung's Technology
GM85: Moving digital X-ray with Samsung's technology Get your Quote Samsung Electronics' newly launched GM85, a premium mobile digital radiography system, provides advanced mobility, maximized user convenience and a high image quality. Its ultra-compact design with 555mm narrow width and 349kg lightweight allow easy access around...
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Meeting the Access Control Challenge in Hospitals
Securing a hospital round the clock is a tough job. But a rapidly maturing technology is perfectly built for the task, writes Thomas Schulz Hospitals present a complex security challenge. They should always be welcoming public spaces. Indeed, in Sweden, many are “open” during daylight hours. Yet every hospital also has many sensitive assets...
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Affidea - Healthcare Without Borders
Affidea is an international healthcare provider focused on advanced diagnostic imaging and cancer care. We are the largest independent provider of these services in Europe, operating 198 medical centres in 15 countries. Despite spanning a multitude of geographies and cultures, the message across Affidea remains constant– nothing is more important...
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Samsung's Enhanced Ultrasound Technology
GM85: Moving digital X-ray with Samsung's technology Samsung Electronics' newly launched GM85, a premium mobile digital radiography system, provides advanced mobility, maximized user convenience and a high image quality. Its ultra-compact design with 555mm narrow width and 349kg light-weight allow easy access around tight spaces,...
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Training the Intensivists of the Future
West Suffolk Hospital is a district general hospital located in a 19-hectare parkland site on the outskirts of Bury St Edmunds. The hospital has a strong focus on ultrasound training, and its intensive care trainees have the opportunity to develop their skills in point-of- care cardiac and lung ultrasound using state-of-the-art equipment, as consultant...
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Increased Functionality in 5D Ultrasound
With the aim of reducing the time factor and increasing convenience in ultrasound procedures, Samsung keeps expanding its offering in women’s healthcare with a novel 5D flagship system WS80A with Elite. 2D offered axial imaging to ultrasound, 3D contributed the capacity for volume and 4D ultrasound combined time and volume. The fifth dimension...
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Philips Launches Minicare I-20 Troponin Blood Test
For Rapid Diagnosis of Heart Attack at the Point of Care Chest pain patients presenting at the emergency department are set to benefit from a major development by Royal Philips. The company has CE marked its cardiac troponin I (cTnI) blood test on the Philips Minicare I-20 handheld device. Current guidelines for the diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI)...
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Ultrasound Guides the Way in Stuttgart
CLEARLY SEE WHAT TO EXPECT DURING AN OPERATION Dr Konstantin Feise, a dermatologist and phlebologist working in aesthetic medicine, provides sclerotherapy, catheter-based laser surgery and diagnostic investigations on venous systems, for patients in and around Stuttgart, Germany. He uses point-of-care ultrasound to help get a firm picture of...
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The Affidea MR Excellence Programme
Unification, Optimisation and Analytics for Service Improvement The Problem With MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI ) is not only one of the most complex parts of the diagnostic chain, it is also one of the most expensive. Obtaining excellent anatomical and functional images is time consuming and requires high levels of technical...
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The Affidea Effect: A Global Dose Data Management System
As the biggest independent provider of advanced diagnostic imaging services in Europe, Affidea owns and operates 170 medical centres and grows at a rate of (on average) one new centre every fortnight. As the company evolves, our owners Waypoint Capital want to turn it into the biggest global brand for diagnostic imaging and cancer care. The cornerstone...
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