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2019 22 May
How and where can precision medicine and public health join forces to improve patient care and outcomes and, ultimately, lead to more efficient healthcare. HealthManagement.org spoke to four precision medicine experts for their views. You might also like: Precision Medicine: the future of health Tienush Rassaf Department Head...Read more
2019 24 Jan
Our cover story this issue is Imaging. The radiology armamentarium is vast, with many imaging modalities available to aid diagnosis and monitoring of therapy in critically ill patients—both at the bedside (x-ray, ultrasound) and in the radiology department (MRI, CT and PET). Research is underway to image even deeper, such as the PROTEUS collaboration...Read more
2019 24 Jan
Bedside ultrasound of the whole body Whole-body ultrasound can be used in the evaluation of many critical conditions including encephalopathy where brain and ocular ultrasound combined with transcranial Doppler can identify elevated intracranial pressure. Hypoxaemia is mostly related to pulmonary disease and lung ultrasound can rapidly identify...Read more
2019 21 Jan
Radiographers’ perceptions Research to evaluate radiographers’ perceptions about patient safety culture in Portuguese public and private imaging facilities found that overall perception is positive but the safety culture dimensions rating should guide culture development of safety culture improvement action plans. Patient safety...Read more
2018 19 Dec
The Coeur Wallis association equips the canton of Valais with freely accessible defibrillators. The lay defibrillator FRED PA-1 Online from SCHILLER plays an important role. The association Coeur Wallis wants to guarantee rapid help in the event of sudden cardiac arrest and thus increase the chances of survival. On 18 December 2018, 115 SCHILLER...Read more
2018 07 Nov
Transforming the pressure of accreditation into team engagement. With the requirement that ISO 15189 imposes on medical laboratories, which approach can motivate personnel to embrace the assessment criteria? As an internationally-recognised benchmark for quality management systems and competence standards, medical laboratories are constantly...Read more
2018 22 Sep
Jacobs Institute idea to Reality (i2R) Centre addresses major health crisis. A medical innovation centre shows how a one-stop-shop approach to CVD medical device creation is accelerating impactful results for all stakeholders. There is a global health crisis in cardiovascular disease that will require out-of-the-box thinking, collaborations,...Read more
2018 27 Mar
Smart pill technology is an innovative method of drug delivery. Smart pills are basically medical devices and small embedded electronic appliances which include sensors, cameras, and trackers. The emergence of these healthcare-cum-technology devices has addressed the rising demand for better diagnostics and tracking tools. The technology is used...Read more
2017 24 Nov
The international medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra will publish its six-month report for the period May to October 2017 on December 8, 2017. Sectra invites analysts, investors and the media to attend a teleconference in conjunction with the publication of the report. Torbjörn Kronander, President and CEO of Sectra, and...Read more