Search Tag: Health
2022 02 Dec
In a new report by KLAS, researchers addressed what organisations can do to prevent staff burnout and improve patient care. Using research on provider burnout, electronic health record (EHR) experiences and other data from the Arch Collaborative, researchers discovered that many of the contributors of burnout have become less prevalent than...Read more
2022 18 Nov
U.S. government health officials have warned of an early and severe start to flu season. As the lockdowns during the pandemic reduced interactions for children, they are now being exposed to respiratory viruses for the first time again. Across the nation, figures have illustrated a fast increase in cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and...Read more
2021 23 Oct
Harry P. Pappas was recently appointed as Ambassador of the Health, Wellness, and Life Sciences Community at the Open Voice Network. The Open Voice Network is the new ‘standards’ body whose goal is bringing Interoperability, Security, Privacy and Trust to the VOICE technology industry. His focus is to use VOICE in the Health, Wellness and Life Sciences...Read more
2021 21 Jun
Workforce shortages are an issue faced by many hospital leaders. Implementing four basic child care policies in your institution, could be a game-changer when it comes to retaining workers - especially women, according to a recent article published in Harvard Business Review (HBR). During the pandemic, women have been disproportionately...Read more
2020 16 Nov
Now a virtual event due to COVID-19 health concerns Find MEDICA on Social Media Read more
2019 10 Oct
Provider organisations have focused their attention on improving healthcare experiences of individual patients. Now, researchers say hospitals and clinics can leverage these individual healthcare experiences ("micro-level encounters") towards improving the health and wellbeing of the communities they serve. A new study published in the Journal of...Read more
2019 26 Aug
Lions Health 2019 has offered new insights and discussions on how creativity is being embraced by the healthcare industry. Over two days, Lions Health 2019 offered new insights and fresh ideas on how creativity can be applied to improve healthcare through focussed discussion and knowledge. This year’s agenda included first-of-its-kind creativity covering...Read more
2020 14 Aug
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 HEALTH CONCERNS NEW DATES: AUGUST 14-16, 2020 CHANGED TO ONLINE MEETING Read more
2019 22 May
The FAIR4Health project supports wider publicly-funded health data use How FAIR4Health aims to enable safe and ethical sharing of all data and metadata derived from publicly-funded research. The FAIR principles are intended to ensure that people and machines can reuse data. These principles are designed to be applied to data and metadata...Read more
2014 07 Apr
“Small bite, big threat” More than half the world’s population is at risk from diseases such as malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis, Lyme disease, schistosomiasis, and yellow fever, carried by mosquitoes, flies, ticks, water snails and other vectors. Every year, more than one billion people are infected and more than one million die from vector-borne...Read more
2014 17 Mar
In advance of the seventeenth European Health Forum Gastein conference, this year themed “Electing Health – the Europe we want!” which will take place in Austria´s Gastein Valley from 1 to 3 October 2014, the International Forum Gastein has announced its annual search for a winner of its European Health Award. The award of €10,000 will be sponsored...Read more
2014 14 Mar
The number of obese people in the world has doubled in the past three decades. The obesity epidemic has long since spread to countries with moderate to low economic performance. Stopping this development is one of the goals of the 12th International Congress on Obesity (ICO). From 17th to 20th March 2014, nutritionists and scientists will convene...Read more
2014 19 Feb
Sleep Apnea cardioVascular Endpoints (SAVE) study examines impact of leading obstructive sleep apnea treatment on cardiovascular disease Royal Philips, a major sponsor of the Sleep Apnea cardioVascular Endpoints (SAVE) study, has announced that the study has reached its enrollment goal of 2,500 patients, spread across seven countries and 84...Read more
2013 18 Dec
According to researchers 8,500 UK deaths caused by heart attacks and strokes could be avoided each year if every person aged 50 years and over ate one apple a day. Basing their assumptions on modelling rather than scientific study, researchers from the University of Oxford published their findings in the BMJ, stating that apples would boost...Read more
2013 22 Nov
As published by a new OECD report, total health spending has fallen in one of three OECD countries between 2009 and 2011, with those hardest hit by the crisis most affected. This development marks a significant reversal from the strong growth in the years prior to the crisis. The publication entitled ‘Health at a Glance 2013’ states that under...Read more