Radiomics: Recent Trends and Assessing Research Quality
2021 26 Nov
Dr Renato Cuocolo, radiologist and research fellow at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’, recently spoke at the 2021 European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (EuSoMII) Annual Meeting about the challenges in assessing research quality in radiomics. Given radiomics’ transformative potential for medical imaging, HealthManagement.org met...Read more
Conducting Research in the COVID-19 Era
2020 11 May
Summary: Under pressure in the age of COVID-19, David Koff stresses that researchers need to maintain high standards for their offerings to have value to the medical world. COVID-19 is the worst pandemic the world has been going through since the Spanish Influenza of 1918, which claimed the lives of millions of people. As we watch the death...Read more
Big Data: Application of Folksonomy for Clinical Nephrology Research
2020 09 Mar
Summary: Nephrology researchers show how natural language processing can enable a more efficient and effective use of the vast amount of healthcare big data. The daily activity in the medical field generates a multitude of data from clinical records and reports, collected from anamnesis and physical examination, laboratory and other tests,...Read more
Closing the Cycle of Research, Prevention, Diagnosis, Monitoring, Treatment With a Finger Sensor
2019 13 Nov
Summary: Noninvasive, continuous haemodynamic assessment in clinically proven quality made easy. Easy-to-use and reliable methods for a clinically valuable cardiovascular assessment have become inevitable at a time when cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death 1 and postoperative complications causing long hospital stays...Read more
The need and speed of cooperation instead of competition in research
2018 22 Sep
Questions that need to be answered taking into account benefits for the patient. Academic rivalry is not in the patient’s interest, and as long as patients are not involved in healthcare and healthcare research on an equal basis there will be no solutions for the questions that need answering. Leó Szilárd wrote in 1948 The Mark Gable...Read more
Research
2014 03 Feb
Ultrasound in Breast Biopseas: Research Aims to Improve Cost-Effectiveness When performing breast biopsies doctors often need to combine MRI and ultrasound to obtain tissue samples with a fine needle, as around a third of tumours are invisible to ultrasound. Imaging takes place inside the MRI scanner, and the biopsy needle is inserted...Read more
Denmark Annual Meeting: Education, Research and Innovation in Tomorrow’s Healthcare
2011 28 Jun
The Danish Association of Hospital Managers' annual meeting takes place on 12-13 May 2011. The seminar is interdisciplinary and directed to politicians, health leaders and managers at all levels. The presentations are applicable to hospitals, primary care, GPs, regions and municipalities. While many hospitals and healthcare institutions place most...Read more
New Research Challenges in the Area of Infectious Diseases
2010 03 Nov
Dr Marc Sprenger, Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), spoke about the new research challenges in the area of infectious diseases at the Shanghai Expo seminar on Research for Healthy Life. Sprenger stressed that the public health research agenda needs to be wider than just bio-medical research. Research must...Read more
Researchers Develop RFID Alert System for Elderly
2009 09 Nov
Researchers at the University of Granada in Southern in Spain have developed a system that reminds elderly people and those with special needs when they forget everyday tasks like taking medication. The system recognises the everyday actions of the user by using radio frequency identification labels. These labels are placed on objects that the...Read more
Researching Accreditation
2007 24 Dec
Authors: David Greenfield , PhD, Research Fellow Jeffrey Braithwaite , PhD, Professor and Director Centre for Clinical Governance Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia...Read more
