Accelerating Healthcare Innovation: How to Harness the Full Potential of Digital Solutions
2024 24 May
Exploring the transformative potential of user-centric digital solutions in healthcare, case studies showcase how these innovations drive improved patient outcomes, operational efficiency, and accessibility in healthcare delivery and management. Key Points Prioritising user needs and seamless integration into existing workflows...Read more
The Apulian e-Health Ecosystem: CORēHealth and TOC Interconnection
2024 24 May
In the Apulia Region, healthcare innovation in telemedicine began many years ago through various projects. The National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) provides for interventions to strengthen and innovate the technological and digital structure of the Italian NHS. Therefore, in continuity, Apulia has started the design and implementation...Read more
Unlocking the Potential of AI in the NHS: A Path Forward
2024 24 May
Leveraging the full potential of AI and technology at the NHS and setting out an action plan that maximises benefits for patient care and staff satisfaction. Key Points Harnessing AI to expedite patient access to care and optimise resource allocation can achieve significant improvements in healthcare delivery. AI algorithms...Read more
Transforming Through Data
2024 24 May
Healthcare has recently witnessed a monumental shift propelled by the wide-spread adoption and integration of digital technologies. Digital tools and technologies are transforming care delivery to patients and streamlining processes across all care levels and settings. At its core, digital transformation heralds a new era of efficiency, accessibility,...Read more
Socio-Political Costs of Implementing Precision Medicine
2024 29 Feb
The benefits of precision medicine, the challenges associated with it and the impact of its use on healthcare costs, testing and monitoring, and the inequality in access to healthcare services. Key Points Precision medicine personalises disease treatment and preventive care by taking into account individual characteristics....Read more
Enhancing Precision Health with Personalised Wellbeing
2024 29 Feb
The transformative potential of personalised wellbeing within the framework of precision health. Practical strategies for optimising individual health. Key Points Precision wellbeing shares similarities with precision medicine while presenting distinct challenges and opportunities. Precision wellbeing recognises the...Read more
Interoperability and Healthcare: Key Aspects, Pitfalls and Evolution
2023 28 Nov
Interoperability outcomes in healthcare refer to improving patient care, reducing medical errors, and increasing efficiency in healthcare delivery by enhancing the necessary coordination of all the agents involved. Key Points Interoperability oriented towards care continuity. Empowerment of the patient over their clinical information....Read more
Prioritising Patient Safety and Combatting Fatigue in Healthcare
2023 28 Nov
Penilla Gunther, President of the European Patient Safety Foundation, shares her insights with HealthManagement.org, explaining the importance of patient safety and its growing significance in healthcare. She also highlights the potential impact the Fight Fatigue campaign could have on patient safety and overall healthcare outcomes. Why...Read more
Training with Simulation in Nursing Care
2023 13 Nov
This article explores whether simulation could be a valuable tool for addressing the shortage of nurses in the healthcare sector and how it can provide realistic and safe learning environments for nursing students and professionals to practice their skills, gain confidence, and receive feedback. Key points Simulation-based learning...Read more
The Necessary Multidisciplinarity for Common Health Achievements
2023 13 Nov
Health institutions are knowledge organisations whose raison d’être is patient care, i.e. prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. Scientific advances, epidemiological changes and social demand require a new way of doing things in healthcare organisations. Therefore, we need to move towards transformational, empathetic, forward-looking,...Read more
Responding to the Nursing Crisis: Surfing a Tsunami in the U.S., Smooth Sailing in Europe
2023 13 Nov
The expected shortfall of registered nurses by 2030 highlights the need to attract young people to the profession in massive numbers and then find the resources to educate and train them. The platform model is one resource that can help achieve this necessary goal—while addressing needs in the present. Key points The nursing crisis...Read more
The Loyal Employee
2023 13 Nov
It has long been acknowledged that the backbone of the healthcare system consists of a strong, caring and resilient workforce. Healthcare workers play a pivotal role in ensuring the success of a hospital and, more importantly, in providing the best possible care to patients. However, in recent years, the healthcare workforce has faced significant...Read more
Building a Culture of Well-Being for Clinicians Today Through Community and Leadership
2023 13 Nov
This article discusses two key strategies for improving clinician well-being and ensuring staff retention in this issue devoted to supporting the loyal employee. Key points The burnout epidemic continues to be a public health crisis that threatens the health of clinicians and the care of their patients. It is estimated that up to 47%...Read more
Healing from Within: The Silent Revolt for Mental Fitness in Healthcare
2023 13 Nov
Unmasking the high price of neglecting employee mental fitness and the path to lasting loyalty in the healthcare sector. Key points According to a survey by the World Health Organization, 45% of healthcare workers are grappling with symptoms of depression, anxiety, or burnout. Many healthcare workers are leaving their jobs, and some...Read more
From Polluting Healthcare Sector to Environmentally Conscious Healthcare Systems
2023 30 Oct
Awareness, systems approach, interaction from top-down and bottom-up, willingness and urgency to take action and tackle the climate change problem with the decarbonisation of the health sector will require efforts from people involved in healthcare and the environment, according to the principle of “One Health”. Interventions are urgent. Time is...Read more
Why Climate-Smart Healthcare Must Be a Priority
2023 30 Oct
As a healthcare leader, you have the responsibility and opportunity to take action against climate change and prioritise zero emissions for your hospital. Key points By taking climate action, healthcare can seize the opportunity to combat the greatest threat to human health and protect an already overstretched sector. You don’t have...Read more
The Psychological Struggle: A Trading Mindset
2023 30 Oct
An overview of the psychological struggle many professional traders experience and how they can circumvent common pitfalls and save time. Key Points Fear is one of the primary factors behind failure to achieve consistent success. It is impossible to eliminate emotion from trading, though one can learn to control their response to the...Read more
What Does For-Profit Ownership Imply for Hospital Management Sciences?
2023 30 Oct
For-profit hospitals are getting an ever-increasing share of the healthcare market. Since they do not structurally outperform other ownership types, questions arise on the desirability of this trend. For-profit strategies, such as consolidation, segmentalisation, and turnaround management, will affect the future hospital landscape and may disrupt...Read more
How to Select a BI Solution for Your Healthcare Practice: A Five-Step Guide
2023 30 Oct
A huge amount of data is generated in healthcare. How can healthcare organisations process and benefit from this data? This article explores the use of business intelligence tools for data-driven decisions and insight. With the expansion of diagnostics methods in healthcare, the amount of data generated, captured, and copied by devices has increased....Read more
Radiomics in Cardiovascular Imaging: Current Role and Future Perspectives
2023 28 Feb
Radiomics may lead to personalised management and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, which could impact patients’ prognosis. Key Points In recent years, multiple radiomics-based tools have been investigated in the field of cardiovascular imaging. Radiomics may predict outcomes of cardiac diseases without the need of...Read more
Women Leadership in Healthcare – Time to Walk the Talk
2023 28 Feb
Being a woman in leadership is a big challenge by itself. When we talk about female leadership in technological fields and healthcare that challenge becomes even greater. Women represent 70% of the 43 million workers in the global health care industry, according to the WHO. Yet, at the executive level, women make up just 25% of healthcare leadership...Read more
Transformation of Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg Hospital
2022 29 Apr
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...Read more
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
Dare to Change!
2021 26 Nov
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...Read more
Working Towards a World Without Alzheimer’s and All Other Dementia
2021 26 Nov
An overview of the goals and vision of the Alzheimer’s Association and its commitment to advance vital research for the treatment, prevention and cure for Alzheimer’s Disease. Key Points The Alzheimer’s Association is a leading voluntary health organisation in Alzheimer’s care, support and research. The Alzheimer’s National Registry...Read more
Why is the Pharmaceutical Industry Not Developing New Antibiotics?
2021 26 Nov
An overview of antibiotic resistance, causative factors, reasons for the lack of research and drug development in this area and potential solutions. Key Points Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health. The primary culprit of fuelling antibiotic resistance is the misuse and overuse of existing antibiotic...Read more
The EU Health Data Centre: A New Total Virtual Organisation
2021 26 Nov
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that the EU has no clear health data architecture regarding health data, its availability and comparability. There is a lack of harmonisation and an absence of an EU-level centre for health data analysis and use to support a better response to public health crises. Through extensive desk review, interviews with key...Read more
AI vs Human: The Use of Artificial Intelligence for Medical Analysis
2021 26 Nov
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...Read more
Looking for Lessons to Support ICS Digital Plans for Integrated Care
2021 26 Nov
Plans for digitally-enabled integrated care can look great on paper, but what needs to happen for them to succeed on the ground? As policy accelerates in the UK, Dr Meetali Kakad, chief medical officer at Dignio, takes a snapshot look at lessons from around the world. Key Points Emerging digital plans in integrated care...Read more
Labs and Drugs
2021 26 Nov
The delivery of high-quality healthcare and the effective treatment of acute and chronic illnesses cannot be achieved without drugs with high efficacy and safety and with laboratories working in the background to undertake basic research and understand the processes behind diseases, mechanism of action of different molecules and presentation of symptoms...Read more
