Search Tag: Implants

Executive Health Management

Improving-patient-compliance-with-future-mhealth

2019 26 Aug

Summary: Combine the characteristic of our engagement with social media with existing technology and how we could improve patient compliance in the not so distant future.   Patient treatment compliance is a significant barrier and a challenge for healthcare professionals the world over. While several studies have been conducted leading to...Read more

Executive Health Management

Breast-implant-register-to-be-introduced-in-england

2013 30 Dec

Ministers announced introduction of a new register aimed at ‘cleaning up the industry’, by recording every breast implant operation in England. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will decide if whether they will join the register. The recent scare over sub-standard PIP implant revealed a serious lack of records, which meant that a number of...Read more

Executive Health Management

Medical-implants-procedures-revised-to-increase-device-controls

2013 23 Oct

To further ensure the safety of patients undergoing treatment for breast or hip implants the European Parliament's Environment Committee has agreed on a revision of the medical implants procedures in order to improve controls.  Monitoring will become stricter and new certification procedures will be introduced in a bid to ascertain medical device...Read more