Search Tag: Healthcare
Predictive maintenance in healthcare - If you can predict it, you can prevent it
2018 17 Apr
Predictive maintenance techniques have been introduced in several industries to help determine the condition of equipment that is already in use to predict when maintenance should be carried out. This approach promises cost savings over routine, regular preventive maintenance, because tasks are performed only when necessary, rather than because the... Read more
Simple, economical toolkit improves healthcare outcomes in South India
2018 21 Feb
Resource limitations should not discourage hospitals in finding ways to improve the quality of healthcare services. There are simple, and inexpensive, interventions that can be implemented to achieve quality improvement goals. For example, a simple quality toolkit (of checklists, education materials and quality and performance reporting) helped improve... Read more
Reputation
2018 20 Feb
Taking control of your reputation has become far more complex in recent decades, with advanced technology presenting widespread opportunities. If well choreographed, use of the many tools, platforms and channels on hand can lead to significant strength, propelling your reputation; but if orchestrated badly, your online and offline involvement could actually... Read more
The art of influencing: what’s behind the phenomenon?
2018 20 Feb
What’s behind the phenomenon?Top influencers from the healthcare field weigh in on what it has taken to establish credibility in their niche.Industry influencers have always existed in one shape or form but today their reach has been leveraged by social media networks. The modern-day influencer is a person who can impact opinions and bring ‘food-for-thought’... Read more
Bringing live music to adults and children across healthcare
2018 20 Feb
Founded in the same year as the NHS and celebrating its 70th birthday in 2018, the UK charity Music in Hospitals & Care continues to deliver the benefits of live music to adults and children right across the healthcare sector.The conventional wisdom is that even the ancient Greeks and the Egyptians realised there was a link between music and human emotion. Even... Read more
The payer determines, but it is not the patient
2018 20 Feb
In healthcare patients are not consumers with the economic power they have in other markets, but the arguments for patient involvement are compelling."Healthcare is like dog food business." Here we hear an American explaining that in healthcare, just like in buying dog food, the consumer is not the one who determines what is on the menu, nor the one who... Read more
Putting healthcare innovation firmly on the map
2018 30 Jan
Innovation is a key factor to succeed in any business or endeavour. However, innovation efforts within a company often lack a clear mission or fail due to lack of funding. This is where the role of chief innovation or strategy officer becomes important.Particularly in healthcare, there is a need to promote and strengthen the functions of chief innovation... Read more
Leading the way in patient healthcare portals
2018 25 Jan
There is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to patient portals. With the European Commission's eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 for wide digital health implementation in the works, sundhed.dk explains how to make a success of a health data portal.Can you summarise the current work and objectives of sundhed.dk?sundhed.dk works according to the overall national... Read more
Let's change before we have to
2018 25 Jan
The race is on to implement technology effectively for improved liaising and better health outcomes.Health technology can change healthcare but only with implementation of basics such as collaboration, communication and easy exchange, combined with transformation of some traditional workflows. AirBNB, TripAdvisor, Uber, OpenTable, WhatsApp and many... Read more