Search Tag: Hospitals
2025 29 Sep
Hospitals reported broadening use of predictive artificial intelligence (AI) across clinical and operational workflows between 2023 and 2024, with adoption rising from 66% to 71% among non-federal acute care providers. Integration within the electronic health record (EHR) remains the dominant route, reflecting the technology’s embedding in da1Read more
2025 29 Sep
Hospitals reported broadening use of predictive artificial intelligence (AI) across clinical and operational workflows between 2023 and 2024, with adoption rising from 66% to 71% among non-federal acute care providers. Integration within the electronic health record (EHR) remains the dominant route, reflecting the technology’s embedding in da1Read more
2025 29 Sep
Hospitals reported broadening use of predictive artificial intelligence (AI) across clinical and operational workflows between 2023 and 2024, with adoption rising from 66% to 71% among non-federal acute care providers. Integration within the electronic health record (EHR) remains the dominant route, reflecting the technology’s embedding in da1Read more
2025 21 Sep
Plastics reinforce safe, scalable care across hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and long-term care yet the sector’s heavy dependence on single-use items now drives rising waste, emissions and costs. In Europe and North America, seven product groups dominate consumption and disposal, locking systems into linear flows that are misaligned with clim1Read more
2025 21 Sep
Plastics reinforce safe, scalable care across hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and long-term care yet the sector’s heavy dependence on single-use items now drives rising waste, emissions and costs. In Europe and North America, seven product groups dominate consumption and disposal, locking systems into linear flows that are misaligned with clim1Read more
2025 21 Sep
Plastics reinforce safe, scalable care across hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and long-term care yet the sector’s heavy dependence on single-use items now drives rising waste, emissions and costs. In Europe and North America, seven product groups dominate consumption and disposal, locking systems into linear flows that are misaligned with clim1Read more
2024 08 May
Hospitals and health systems, despite grappling with significant challenges, are demonstrating remarkable resilience in this period of transformation. They face rising demand for high-acuity care and financial instability due to workforce shortages, supply chain disruptions, and inflation. Yet, despite these hurdles, many hospitals are operati1Read more
2023 30 Aug
The International Hospital Federation (IHF) has announced the finalists of the IHF Awards 2023 after scoring entries in all 7 Award categories. This year, more than 500 entries were submitted by hospitals and healthcare organizations from 43 countries/territories – a record number since the Awards commenced in 2015. The projects and progra1Read more
2023 29 Aug
AI technology to help improve workflows, reduce administrative burden and allow physicians and nurses to spend more time with patients HCA Healthcare, Inc., one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, and Google Cloud announced a new collaboration designed to use generative AI technology to improve workflows on time-consuming tasks1Read more
2023 29 Aug
AI technology to help improve workflows, reduce administrative burden and allow physicians and nurses to spend more time with patients HCA Healthcare, Inc., one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, and Google Cloud announced a new collaboration designed to use generative AI technology to improve workflows on time-consuming tasks1Read more
2023 22 May
Digital and AI-driven technologies tangibly improve the effectiveness of healthcare delivery and access – whether holistic patient management, clinical productivity, or hospital site utilisation all of which ultimately improves patient outcomes. Yet the sector faces financial challenges to acquire the clinical, care, collaboration and buildings 1Read more
2023 12 Apr
The International Hospital Federation (IHF) has launched the 2023 edition of the IHF Awards – the premier, annual awards programme for hospitals and healthcare organizations worldwide. Entries are being accepted in seven IHF Awards categories: Dr Kwang Tae Kim Grand Hospital Award – recognizing excellence in the five dimensions o1Read more
2023 28 Mar
Hospitals that invest in community health equity – eliminating disparities in health and the factors that contribute to the exclusion of groups – can boost the financial performance and organisational culture of hospitals. The study, published in NEJM Catalyst, pointed out that “by emphasizing health, not just health care, leaders of these h1Read more
2023 16 Jan
The well-being of doctors may be severely affected if they experience a complication during care of a patient.A traumatic patient care event can lead to significant mental stress on the provider and this burden is known as the second victim syndrome. When a patient experiences an intraoperative adverse event (iAE), and if this iAE was left 1Read more
2022 28 Sep
On Nov 25, join key stakeholders in the Hospital at Home space – from hospitals, care providers to policymakers and solutions providers - to discuss developments and what the future holds With limited hospital capacity and growing demand for care, Hospital at Home (HaH) programmes have gained traction over the world as an alternative ca1Read more
2022 09 Sep
An interdisciplinary research team at the University of Bern and Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, has demonstrated a promising new method using remote sensors to detect health problems in the elderly population. The deployed system is made up of contactless motion sensors that were placed in the homes of elderly study participants. The1Read more
2021 27 Apr
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) has successfully implemented Agfa HealthCare’s Enterprise Imaging (EI) solution, a unified platform complete with clinical tools, reporting and a workflow engine that will help the LTHT maximise its productivity and collaborate with neighbouring Trusts. EI provides a single storage solution fo1Read more
2021 27 Apr
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) has successfully implemented Agfa HealthCare’s Enterprise Imaging (EI) solution, a unified platform complete with clinical tools, reporting and a workflow engine that will help the LTHT maximise its productivity and collaborate with neighbouring Trusts. EI provides a single storage solution for th1Read more
2021 19 Apr
Researchers from the University Medical Centre Groningen and the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, The Netherlands, recently published findings on “Understanding how and why audits work in improving the quality of hospital care: A systematic realist review”. Quality and safety issues are becoming increasingly important in hospital 1Read more
2020 19 Jun
Suite of Integrated Turnkey Tools Helps Businesses, Governments, and Schools Reopen and Stay Open Responsibly During COVID-19 IRVINE, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) today announced Masimo SafetyNet-Open™, designed to help businesses, governments, and schools more responsibly manage employee and student health and safet1Read more
2020 30 Apr
Smooth clinical operations of a facility are based on the adequate and consistent availability of staff, space, equipment, and a coordination mechanism. However, under acute surge events such as local epidemics or pandemics like the ongoing COVID-19, healthcare facilities may consider a viable preparedness plan. Staff capacity, both clinical a1Read more
2020 26 Feb
As healthcare continues to be a target for cyber attacks, the European Union cybersecurity agency the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has issued a guide of recommendations for protecting hospital computer networks. You might also like: Staff Training Urgently Needed for HealthcareCybersecurity Calle1Read more
2020 16 Jan
Swiss hospitals have announced successful processing on a trial of medical device orders via the Blockchain. The Cantonal Hospital Winterthur, the Cantonal Hospital Baden, the University Children's Hospital Zurich and the Spitalregion Fürstenland Toggenburg along with two medical device suppliers Anandic System Medical and ITRIS Medical und1Read more
2019 28 Nov
Medsquare has been selected by the Gustave Roussy Cancer Centre, which has chosen to be equipped by Medsquare’s Patient Dose Monitoring solution Radiation Dose Monitor (RDM) . For this DACS acquisition project, signed via the French Purchasing group ’Resah’, Gustave Roussy has indicated that it wants to replace its existing DACS solution, notab1Read more
2019 20 Nov
The company announces a new brand position and corporate identity consistent with providing hospitals with connectivity between transport and pharmacy automation solutions leading to better patient outcomes. Buchs, Switzerland (19 November 2019) – Swisslog Healthcare, a leading global supplier of solutions for medication management1Read more
2019 13 Nov
Summary: No other industry that operates as inefficiently and ineffectively as healthcare has survived disruption in the 21st century. Why does medicine remain the exception and what forces are powerful enough to improve quality and bring costs under control? The United States spent an average of $10,209 on each citizen in 2017, the last1Read more
2019 30 Oct
Radiology care means ensuring optimal use of imaging for diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Needless to say, radiologists play an important role in helping referring physicians avoid ordering imaging tests that provide not much diagnostic value – and unnecessarily expose patients to radiation. That's certainly the main reason behind the A1Read more