Search Tag: Data
Digital Health Hub at Your Service - If You Earn Citizen Trust
2017 07 May
The Digital Health Hub is a joint project of Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund and The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. The project goal is to facilitate the use of national data reserves and design of the one-stop shop for health and social care data. The mention of data exploitation may sound scary, but at its best it can mean... Read more
Personalised Medicine - Data - Diagnosis - Decisions
2016 18 May
The term Personalised Medicine has been extensively used within the last years to describe a paradigm shift in research and medical application towards an evidence based medicine. The Tübingen congress will focus on the clinical applicability of PM. Specifically we will highlight aquisition and analysis of highly complex data from patients, the... Read more
Transforming Measurement into Understanding: Quantitative Bedside Decision Support
2016 11 Mar
Intensivists today are faced with a growing deluge of quantitative data, along with demands to implement evidence-based protocols of increasing number and complexity. The tools to support such implementation, including computerised decision support, have, however, seen only incremental development over the past decades. This article will attempt to... Read more
CHEST Trial - BMJ Stirs Controversy Over Data Release
2016 03 Mar
Use of starch for fluid resuscitation was suspended by European and U.S. regulators following publication in the New England Journal of Medicine of the results of the CHEST trial (Myburgh et al. 2012 ), which raised safety concerns. Fresenius Kabi, which makes hydroxyethyl starch (HES) products and was a sponsor of the CHEST trial, has claimed... Read more
Scarce Data on Advantage of ICU Bedside Diagnosis
2015 18 Aug
According to a review published online on 4 August in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society , little or scarce data on the advantage of bedside physical examinations in the ICU (intensive care unit) are available. Having examined the utility of bedside diagnosis in modern ICU practice, the authors of this review, Dr. Thomas S. Metkus and... Read more
Anesthesia Business Consultants & VCU to Partner on Strategic Initiatives
2015 22 Jun
Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC), a leading provider in billing and practice management for the anesthesia and pain management specialty, is pleased to announce its latest partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University , (VCU) Department of Anesthesiology to provide integrated practice management billing services. ABC entered into discussions... Read more
Stanford Children’s Health CIO Ed Kopetsky honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
2015 22 Jun
-- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children’s Health are proud to announce that Chief Information Officer Ed Kopetsky was recently presented with the 2015 Silicon Valley Business Journal, San Francisco Business Times and PwC CIO of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award . The award recognized his significant contributions... Read more
The CIO To CEO Leap
2014 20 Oct
According to a recent Billian's HealthDATA study, the CIO career path generally does not lead to the corner office. The study evaluated 384 hospital executive personnel changes in 2014 and found that there was only one CIO who was promoted into a CEO role. Laura Musfeldt, Vice President of Senior Executive Search at healthcare-focused executive recruitment... Read more
When Analytics Doesn't Show The Real Picture
2014 28 Jul
Recent changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are intended to further strengthen efforts to improve patient care in the U.S. As a result, hospitals in the country are required to be paid based on how much they improved their patients' health and not on the number of tests and procedures performed. Some data brokers or vendors... Read more
Frost & Sullivan: Volume Rises, Value Falls for Healthcare M&A Deals
2014 13 May
Patent expiry, together with an increase in generic competition in the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, is expected to bring a number of deals. According to newly released analysis from Frost & Sullivan entitled “Merger and Acquisition (M&A) Trends in the Global Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industry”, evolving conditions... Read more