Search Tag: Healthcare
2016 13 Nov
Dear Reader, As the world’s largest representative body for senior healthcare executives, the European Association of Hospital Managers (EAHM) has a big responsibility in advancing the healthcare enterprise. Modern communication is key in sharing best practices, gathering new ideas and interacting with other disciplines. The EAHM has selected...Read more
2016 13 Nov
IMPACT IN HEALTHCARE WORKPLACES Circadian Rhythm The Circadian rhythm dictates that living organisms sleep during the night and are awake during the day. This internal autonomous function ensures adequate rest, avoidance of emotional disorder and the reduction of future morbidity and mortality. Ideally the work timetable is adapted...Read more
2016 13 Nov
RAMBAM HEALTH CARE CAMPUS The philosophy at Rambam Health Care is medicine, technology and humanity intertwined. Please explain. Rambam is a very uniquely positioned hospital. It started in 1938 as a hospital for patients, founded by the British mandatory regime, and has grown to be a major academic hospital that includes the Faculty...Read more
2016 13 Nov
The Face of Healthcare Healthcare is at an exciting yet vulnerable crossroads. Technology is being implemented for everything from diagnosis to workflow solutions and more and more providers and professionals are joining forces in order to deliver the best care possible. With changes coming fast and furious, what do healthcare experts across...Read more
2016 13 Nov
Summary What are the benefits of including art in healthcare settings? Willis Newson have over 15 years’ experience of working with healthcare partners to deliver creative solutions to problems and to integrate art into environments. We have worked across different spaces, from accident and emergency (A&E) to wards, mental health units...Read more
2016 09 Nov
Republican Donald Trump shocked the U.S. and the world with his victory in the presidential race on Tuesday beating main rival, Democrat Hilary Clinton with 279 electoral votes out of 538, against Clinton’s 228 (result as of 10 Nov). With Trump’s plans on ‘repealing’ the Affordable Care Act (ACA) established by incumbent president Barack...Read more
2016 07 Nov
In the U.S., votes have been experiencing one of the most bitter and divisive presidential elections. The problem is that when you feel so strongly about a particular issue or candidate, it can be difficult not to bring up your view at work. A report in Health Leaders Media suggests it is not always wise as talk about politics as heated discussion...Read more
2016 31 Oct
Following an incident of discrimination against medics in an emergency department led to a team of Stanford University School of Medicine doctors detailing a strategy for how medics, both residents and physicians, can respond to discrimination from patients and their families. In the incident, the father of a little boy asked an intern...Read more
2016 31 Oct
By Jonathan Erskine We know that Europe’s health and healthcare systems need to reinvent themselves. Most are struggling to cope with the challenges of volatile public finances, the pressures caused by increased incidence of chronic illness, an ageing population, rapidly developing medical and communications technologies and migration patterns which...Read more
2016 04 Oct
Technology used in connection with Bitcoin currency could be the solution for healthcare’s wide-ranging IT systems. Blockchain garnered global attention as Bitcoin’s peer-to-peer transactions system for verifying and recording transactions in a ledger. The healthcare sector innovators are starting to take notice of blockchain’s capacity...Read more
2016 27 Sep
Anna Sort is a qualified nurse, healthcare lecturer and the director of PlayBenefit, a Barcelona-based company which uses gaming to help people heal. What are your key areas of interest and research? Video games, Engagement design, behaviour change, Placebo effect/mind power, willpower and eustress. What are the major challenges in...Read more
2016 27 Sep
Patients can now shop for care, use telehealth or communicate by email with clinicians. Sounds like a brave new world but all is not what it seems; CBS reported that according to a new PwC Research Institute study, SurvivingSeismic Change: Winning a Piece of the $5 trillion U.S. Health EcoSystem most consumers don’t engage with the...Read more
2016 27 Sep
In contemporary healthcare, touch— contact between a doctor’s hand and a patient—appears to be on its way out. The expanding role of CT and MRI imaging is decreasing reliance on touch as a way of making diagnoses. Pressures to move patients through the system more quickly leave health professionals with fewer opportunities to make contact....Read more
2016 27 Sep
Europol published its much – anticipated annual Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) report on Wednesday providing a frontline view for healthcare on how the cybersecurity threat is evolving and what organisations can do to fight it. The assessment focuses on important developments and emerging threats in cybercrime activity mostly...Read more
2016 20 Sep
Patient violence against healthcare workers is becoming such a serious problem in Queensland, Australia that the authorities are rolling out body cameras to protect staff. The aim of the body cams is two-fold; to discourage violent attacks and to make police prosecution of offenders easier. The cams are part of a range of measures the...Read more
2016 20 Sep
Securing and retaining healthcare staff is an increasing pressure in a competitive environment where the pool of skilled workers is decreasing. It is not only clinicians who are hard to get and keep on board. HIT professionals are in high demand as the digital hospital environment expands and related security issues and data breaches dominate...Read more
2016 12 Sep
The HIPAA does not stipulate the need to train employees to protect against the visual hacking but healthcare CISOs and CIOs should not let this practice fly under the radar says a IT security expert. Kate Borden of the Visual Privacy Advisory Council says that the low-tech nature of visual hacking means it is often overlooked in the drive for IT...Read more
2016 06 Oct
Africa Health Business Ltd. is a Kenyan based company that brings together a team of experts from the healthcare, event planning and design sector in Africa making Africa Health Business the ideal partner in the coordination and organisation of healthcare related events and conferences.Read more
2016 12 Sep
A new interoperability benchmark and measurement model for assessment of performance and progress is set to launch at the start of 2017. The model was established at last month’s KLAS Cornerstone Summit in Utah and is a collaborative initiative devised by industry representatives based on the 2016 Interoperability KLAS study design. ...Read more
2016 10 May
Health 2.0 is the premiere showcase and catalyst for the advancement of new health technologies. Through a global series of conferences, developer competitions, and leading market intelligence, Health 2.0 drives the innovation and collaboration necessary to transform health and health care. In addition to our flagship event held in the Bay Area each...Read more
2016 25 Aug
Everybody in healthcare across the C-Suite, clinician, policy-maker, nursing and IT spectrum is aware of how critical the situation is by now; healthcare in Europe is just not sustainable. The demands facing European healthcare systems are becoming greater with increased life expectancy, new pathologies and the rise of chronic disease. Added...Read more
2016 25 Aug
There are always trailblazers implementing the latest technology, experimenting with management styles and putting the latest best practice in place. There are too many leading lights to name here, but HealthManagement. org has created a round up of facilities and individuals in healthcare - leaders who have caught our attention because...Read more
2016 25 Aug
Gamification is on the rise right now as a powerful tool to change behaviour - not only in healthcare but in many fields, such as education and business. However it can be seen and experienced in all its glory in healthcare, and I believe it will be crucial for the very near future. First of all, what is gamification? A crystallised definition...Read more
2016 25 Aug
In recent years patient safety and risk management have become important topics of debate at different levels of healthcare throughout Europe so that where there is one, the other is also found. In this article we will bring these topics together, putting them in the context of the Input-Management-Processes- Outcomes (IMPO ) model,...Read more
2016 10 Aug
Until now and 2021, the total market for cybersecurity technology implemented by U.S. hospitals will expand at a compound annual growth rate of 13.6 percent. This is according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan which adds that health organisations need to take more action on cybersecurity than implementation of security tools. The report says that...Read more