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
EUropean Federation for CAncer IMages – Using Technology to Improve Cancer Care
2024 24 May
An overview of the EUropean Federation for CAncer IMages (EUCAIM) initiative to catalyse innovation and adoption of digital technologies in cancer care, and faster and more accurate clinical decision-making, diagnostics, treatment, and predictive medicine for cancer patients. Key Points The EUropean Federation for CAncer IMages...Read more
Healthcare’s Digital Transformation with HIMSS: Challenges, Innovations, and the Road Ahead
2024 24 May
Healthcare's transformation hinges on digitalisation, navigating challenges and steps to integrate data, leverage AI, fortify cybersecurity, and enable global data exchange. Strategic planning, collaboration, and innovation are needed to navigate this journey towards excellence in patient care. Key Points Digitalisation is driving...Read more
The Chessboard of Radiology: Learning from Each Move Through Peer Review
2024 24 May
Key Points In the precise and critical field of radiology, peer review embodies the philosophy of continuous improvement. Like chess grandmasters who meticulously analyse every move to enhance their gameplay, radiologists engaged in peer review explore their diagnostic decisions, learning from each case to improve patient outcomes. Peer...Read more
Rookie Mistakes in AI Transition for Healthcare
2024 24 May
Implementing AI in healthcare must include strategic vision, stakeholder engagement, ROI understanding, regulatory compliance, and scalability planning to fully leverage AI's potential to improve patient care and institutional efficiency. Key Points AI offers solutions to healthcare challenges by enhancing diagnostic precision, operational...Read more
How Change Management Activates Digital Transformation in Healthcare
2024 24 May
Navigating healthcare's digital transformation demands comprehensive change management, including transparent communication, collaborative culture building, and strategic investments, to realise improved patient outcomes and operational efficiencies. Key Points Digital transformation is crucial for healthcare organisations to remain...Read more
Innovative Diagnostics at Varese Hospital With the uCT 780 CT Scanner
2024 24 May
A United Imaging Healthcare uCT 780 CT scanner installed at the Ospedale di Circolo e Fondazione Macchi di Varese in the small town of Varese in the far north-western province of Lombardy. Key Points The uCT 780 CT scanner from United Imaging Healthcare is a state-of-the-art medical device used primarily for diagnostic imaging. ...Read more
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
United Imaging Healthcare Advances Medical Diagnostics in Lithuania
2024 24 May
United Imaging Healthcare has installed its innovative uMR 670 MRI system at the Antėja Clinic in Klaipėda, Lithuania. Key Points The innovative diagnostic equipment installed in the clinic is the uMR 670, a state-of-the-art 1.5 T wide gantry scanner that provides efficient, reliable and comfortable MRI examinations. The groundbreaking...Read more
Strengthening Cardiovascular Care Resilience for Healthier Hearts: The RESIL-Card Project
2024 24 May
Prompted by concerns over the substantial disruptions in cardiovascular care during the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of interventional cardiologists has joined forces with public health and healthcare delivery experts to launch the EU-co-funded RESIL-Card project, which aims to develop a toolkit for resilience assessment to improve preparedness...Read more
Advancing in Value-based Procurement: From Theory to Practice
2024 24 May
Experts in public healthcare procurement explore the benefits of value-based procurement on patient care, efficiency, and innovation within the framework of European legal directives and Spanish regulations. Key Points Effective value-based procurement requires inclusive leadership and stakeholder engagement, including public administrations,...Read more
Misconceptions and Risks of Medical Tourism
2024 24 May
Medical Tourism has been hyped to be an exponential growth sector. However, investors, government officials and healthcare executives should be cautious as healthcare is and will remain a primarily local business. Key Points Medical Tourism data is usually provided by stakeholders, with a vested interest, varies widely, and...Read more
Shortcut to Sustainable Healthcare Innovation: The NCSH Model
2024 24 May
Empowering the global healthcare sector with practical sustainability solutions, the NCSH Model facilitates swift, impactful change and offers a shortcut to implementing best practices and tackling urgent environmental challenges. Key Points Healthcare faces pressing sustainability challenges that demand immediate action, yet change...Read more
Cutting-Edge Technology: Cobellis Clinic and the World's First Ultra-Wide-Bore 3T MRI
2024 24 May
Cobellis Clinic has partnered with United Imaging Healthcare to install the world's first ultra-wide-bore 3T MRI, the uMR Omega™️ . This cutting-edge technology, powered by advanced AI, enhances diagnostic accuracy, speeds up MRI exams, and significantly improves patient comfort. The collaboration promises to elevate healthcare standards and...Read more
Patient Monitoring
2024 17 May
Patient monitoring in the ICU is critical for providing high-quality medical care. Monitoring involves continuous surveillance of physiological parameters to assess patient condition and detect signs of deterioration promptly. This includes monitoring vital signs such as blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, and body temperature; continuous...Read more
Pain Monitoring and Management in Intensive Care Unit: A Narrative Review
2024 17 May
Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience. Among patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), severe untreated pain is associated with an increase in mortality, length of hospital stays and worsening in everyday quality of life after hospital discharge. Pain in critically ill patients is more difficult to monitor...Read more
How and Why We Should Monitor Dyspnoea in Mechanically Ventilated Patients
2024 17 May
Dyspnoea is among the worst suffering that a human being can experience. Because mechanically ventilated patients are strongly exposed to high dyspnoea intensity, it is important that clinicians monitor dyspnoea in this population. Relieving dyspnoea in patients is a human right. Suffocating, not getting enough air or the feeling...Read more
The Hazards of Monitoring – Alarm Fatigue in the ICU
2024 17 May
Alarm fatigue is a pressing clinical problem in our post-pandemic ICUs and can adversely impact patient outcomes. Its root causes can be classified by patient, device and organisation related. We believe it can be mitigated and we propose interventions through attention to policy, education and the creation of a meaningful culture of safety....Read more
Critical Care Monitoring: Time for Hospital-Wide Monitoring and Response Capabilities?
2024 17 May
Physiological monitoring has a rich 200-year history. In this article, the authors look into the components of an ideal monitoring system and highlight how advancements in modern technology could enable the development of an effective continuous monitoring and response system. The continuous monitoring of patient vital signs is a required...Read more
Perioperative Cardiac Output Monitoring: From Yellow Catheters to Green Algorithms
2024 17 May
We discuss the economic and environmental advantages of green pulse wave analysis (PWA) techniques and the integration of PWA algorithms into standard bedside monitors that will likely contribute to democratisation of perioperative cardiac output monitoring. Haemodynamic instability frequently manifests during the perioperative course...Read more
Technical Alarms During Continuous ECG Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit
2024 17 May
An analysis of technical alarms to guide hospital-based alarm management strategies and inform monitoring manufacturers on needed improvements to technical alarm algorithms used in bedside ECG monitors. Introduction Hospital-based electrocardiographic (ECG) monitors are configured to alarm for a number of different types of arrhythmias,...Read more
Mitral Systolic Anterior Motion: Beyond Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
2024 17 May
Haemodynamic instability and shock are a potential everyday challenge for intensivists and anaesthesiologists. Understanding the underlying cause is pivotal for an appropriate and successful treatment. Systolic motion of the anterior mitral valve leaflet towards the left ventricular outflow tract (SAM) is a possible insidious mechanism of low...Read more
Taking Care of the Lung Donor: A Task For Every Hospital
2024 17 May
Every hospital can contribute to adequate lung donation. Learning and understanding the management of potential donors will allow them to receive proper care and be referred to save a life. Introduction Organ transplants are, in many cases, the only therapeutic option for patients with terminal diseases in different organs (Westphal...Read more
Upcoming Events/Congresses
2024 17 May
MAY 19-22 NTI 2024 AACN - American Association Critical Care Nurses Denver, U.S.A https://iii.hm/1pzb 23 – 26 61st ERA Congress 2024 Stockholm, Sweden & Virtual https://iii.hm/1pzc 25-27 Euroanaesthesia 2024 Munich, Germany https://iii.hm/1pzd 29-31 35th Smart Meeting Anesthesia Resuscitation Intensive...Read more
Evidence of Ultrasonographic Monitoring in the ICU Patient
2024 17 May
Ultrasound serves as a tool to enhance diagnostic precision for decision-making in life-threatening situations in the ICU. This article will delve into the evidence of ultrasound monitoring across different scenarios. Introduction In the contemporary landscape of medical diagnostics, ultrasonography stands out as a pivotal...Read more
Intravenous Landiolol: Rate Control in Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias in Patients with LVD
2024 17 May
Athina Nasoufidou Second Department of Cardiology Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Hippokration General Hospital Thessaloniki, Greece A systematic review investigating landiolol's efficacy in non-septic or post-operated SVT patients with concomitant left ventricular dysfunction. Managing Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias...Read more
Decision-Making in the ICU
2024 19 Apr
Decision-making in the ICU is a multifaceted process that involves clinical assessment, collaboration among multidisciplinary teams, ethical considerations, evidence-based practice, communication, and continuous adaptation to evolving clinical scenarios. Balancing the complex factors requires expertise, teamwork, and a patient-centred approach....Read more
Dealing With Uncertainty in ICU Decision-Making: A Practical Guide
2024 19 Apr
When the stakes are high, and the path ahead is uncertain, the decisions made, especially if a patient continues to worsen, can be sources of self-torment and can haunt us for a long time. Our goal is to suggest ways to steer decision-making for intensivists in the face of uncertainty by proposing a clear, practical, stepwise approach through...Read more
