Accept- Visualize -Act- Keep Acting
2024 01 May
Don't waste your time, it's more valuable now than ever! Be Accepted gives you a head start and saves you time. Accept what is, recognize the situation and get a general overview. The important thing is how you accept the situation and what you do with it. You cannot change what is happening, but you can choose how to react....Read more
Moderna and OpenAI Partner to Accelerate the Development of Life-Saving Treatments
2024 24 Apr
Moderna and OpenAI partner to accelerate the development of life-saving treatments. Moderna partners with OpenAI to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise to thousands of employees across the company. Now every function is empowered with AI, creating novel use cases and GPTs that accelerate and expand the impact of every team. Moderna has been...Read more
Microsoft and G42 Partner To Accelerate AI Innovation In UAE and Beyond
2024 15 Apr
Strategic partnership highlights: Expansion of partnership between Microsoft and G42 to deliver advanced AI solutions with Microsoft Azure across various industries and markets. Microsoft will invest $1.5 billion in G42 for a minority stake in G42 and join its board of directors. Companies will support the establishment of a $1 billion...Read more
Paradigm Uses OpenAI’s API to Improve Patient Access to Clinical Trials
2024 06 Mar
Clinical trials are how we discover new cures, and they can be a life-saving form of treatment. Paradigm is breaking down barriers in the healthcare industry with technology that brings clinical trials to more people, such as cancer patients, while reducing the paperwork burden for doctors and nurses to address clinician burnout. Clinical...Read more
Expanding Global Access to Cervical Cancer Prevention, Screening, and Treatment
2024 20 Jan
According to the National Cancer Institute , the incidence of cervical cancer in the United States has been steadily declining in recent decades, from an estimated 11.2 cases per 100,000 women in 1992 to 6.7 cases per 100,000 women in 2019. Statistics from other parts of the world, however, paint a substantially different picture. In the...Read more
Policy Update - Time to Accelerate: The Next Steps
2023 15 Dec
Richard Price, Head of Policy, European Cancer Organisation Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan is working. New EU level cancer prevention legislation is now in statutes, with more to come. Ambitious pan-European projects are up and running, with early outputs coming to fruition. New communities for multi-stakeholder action are formed with promises...Read more
Schadenfreude is not acceptable! How German Journalism Gets Me
2022 26 Aug
My dear readers, It is time for thoughts from the island again. Before I share more, I hope you are all okay – despite the heat waves. As I said in my previous articles, what will be next? What else do we have to overcome, or is this our future - living and dealing with extreme situations, i.e. pandemics, war, climate chaos etc.? This...Read more
Love Will Tear Us Apart — Not! Vaccination Laws Will!
2022 09 Feb
My dear readers, It is time again for thoughts from the island of Great Britain. I hope you had an excellent and HEALTHY start to the new year! The first month is over, and another eleven are ahead of us. I am sure we all know that the next few months will be pretty challenging for all of us. I missed my January article for some good reasons. Well,...Read more
COVID-19 Vaccinations: A Long-Term Strategy
2021 15 Dec
The World Health Organization labelled the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 a ‘variant of concern’ because of its potential to evade immunity conferred by prior infection and the current COVID-19 vaccines. These vaccines are directed against previous versions of the spike protein, which the virus uses to enter human cells. The possibility...Read more
How Lack of Accepted Standards Prevents Connected Health from Taking Off
2021 13 Oct
Lack of globally accepted standards in health data management hampers the advancement of Connected Health, which we hope, can give the world faster, cheaper, and more accessible preventive healthcare. With thousands and thousands of personal medical sensors available on the market, dozens of electronic health record systems used at hospitals,...Read more
Patient’s Voice to Cancel Cancer: When Accountability Becomes Responsibility
2021 03 May
In the past decades something happened in healthcare that doesn’t benefit patients. Actually, it is what we patient advocates call ‘Dying is safer’. For some of the stakeholders in the medical industrial complex it is safer to let patients die than to act. We can think of experimental medicines for patients with an unmet medical need. Why not...Read more
Nurse’s View: How Do I Feel About COVID-19 Vaccine?
2020 17 Dec
Inaugurating her new column with HealthManagement.org, Sabine Torgler reflects on the news about the start of the vaccination programme against COVID-19 in the UK from the nurse’s perspective. Since two weeks ago, it is public that the UK is starting its vaccination programme against COVID-19. When the BBC reported it on Wednesday,...Read more
Managing access to a Windows network for healthcare organisations
2019 08 Mar
The importance of getting access management right cannot be overstated. You need to make sure that anybody accessing your systems – and the data within – is exactly who they say they are. This is especially important when dealing with healthcare professionals who have access to vast amounts of sensitive medical data. Most compliance...Read more
#ECR2019: Impact of AI on medical imaging access
2019 28 Feb
Noninvasive MRI digital physical exam provides a Whole Body approach for personalised health. The scarcity of radiologic expertise and resources (hardware, personnel, quality, and other radiology services) impacts up to 4.7 billion people worldwide. Unfortunately, two-thirds of the world's population has no access to basic radiologic...Read more
GDPR: Risk and accountability
2018 20 Jun
What could the new data protection law mean for health sector leaders? The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on 25 May 2018, replacing the 1995 Data Protection Directive. Directly binding and applicable in all EU states, the GDPR aims to protect the data and privacy of the European population by giving...Read more
Sustainable access to affordable medicines: how can the multilateral trading system contribute?
2017 25 Sep
The 2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set the target of access to "safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all”, access to medicines long recognised as integral to achieving the right to health. Yet the SDGs also stressed the need for coordination and cooperation - emphasising the role of trade, partnership...Read more
New Software for Fast and Accurate Interpretation in Radiology
2017 30 Jan
The new software, Tracking Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium shifts in Data (TREND), can quickly analyse a series of images such as CT, MRI, ultrasound or any video from scientific equipment of all kinds. Steven R. Van Doren , Professor of Biochemistry at University of Missouri answered our questions about this exciting new development. 1. TREND...Read more
Zoom on: Arnaud Legland, Strategic Accounts Manager, Medsquare
2016 29 Aug
What are your key areas of interest and research/assignment? Every day, I put all my efforts into making patient care and patient quality of care more efficient, comfortable and safe. Since I’m not in direct contact with patients, I strive to fulfill this mission by providing healthcare professionals with innovative solutions that...Read more
