Search Tag: healthcare systems
Reset-2021
2021 15 Feb
2020 was an eye-opener for most healthcare systems around the globe. Fighting against the pandemic required new types of skills, leadership and organisation, and new types of support, practices and supply systems. Everything at every level, from global to the most local, has changed and will never be the same. It is the ‘new normal’. As such, 2021...Read more
New-care-delivery
2020 22 Oct
The COVID-19 pandemic has been an accelerator for a profound paradigmatic shift that started several years ago, from a hospital-centred and centralised acute care system towards a patient-centred and distributed network of multiple actors playing new roles. Autonomy of patients is leveraged, telemedicine and telemonitoring is increasingly used by...Read more
Need-for-transparency-in-era-of-covid-19-pandemic
2020 05 Jun
The current study of the Cyprus Integrity Forum (CIF) highlights the pitfalls that must be avoided to preserve the sustainability of our country, social equality and environmental integrity, and above all to protect the prestige of our country as a state of law and morality and not as a centre of opportunistic corruption as some have accused us...Read more
Reimagining-hospitals
2020 03 Feb
One of the most cost-effective ways to reinvent hospitals will be through information technology. Over the next decade we can give hospitals the equivalent of brains and nervous systems. The fully digitised hospital of the future will become a healing machine, sensitive to the precise needs of each patient, seamlessly supporting human caregivers...Read more
What-does-the-competitive-landscape-for-your-areas-of-specialisation-look-like
2019 06 May
What are the factors that drive innovation and change? AI in radiology is at a crossroads. This crossroads represents a common fork in the path across all industries in which the technology is moving beyond the hype, separating the strongest solutions from those that eventually wane. Given this context, the AI-medical imaging...Read more
Future-of-ultrasound-where-are-we-going
2019 22 Feb
CEUS for children, ultrasound simulation and gamification models for training and education, EFSUMB initiatives. Prof. Sidhu, EFSUMB president, talks to Healthmanagement.org about his ECR 2019 presentations: using ultrasound simulation models as tools for training and education, the greatest potential in combining ultrasound with contrast-enhanced...Read more
The-ai-powered-radiologist
2019 22 Feb
Imaging acquisition advances & big data envision a bright future for diagnostic imaging, which should continue to be led by the AI-powered radiologist. Technical advances in imaging acquisition and big data envision a bright future for diagnostic imaging. Radiologists working as data scientists can play a central role in precision medicine,...Read more
Clinical-ultrasound-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence
2019 22 Feb
The foremost expert in critical care ultrasound on the value of natural vs artificial intelligence in medicine. Ultrasound is a tool like no other in medicine. Most importantly, because it is a work of the hand and the eye, combining the art of reasoning, common sense (that is, intelligence), it provides a unique opportunity for the physician...Read more
Ai-applications-in-breast-imaging
2019 22 Feb
Review of some state-of-the-art applications of artificial intelligence on mammography and MRI. Computer aided imaging is not novel, having been around for 50 years. Developments have boosted the accuracy of computer-based analysis and breast imaging is at the forefront, as large databases are available, and radiologists tasks on images are...Read more
Ai-powers-radiologists
2019 06 Feb
Executive Summary Artificial intelligence ( AI ) is clearly the new trend in automation. This article, "The AI-powered radiologist" , authored by Dr. María Jesús Díaz Candamio , a radiologist at the Servicio de Radiología, Hospital Universitario de A Coruña (Spain), highlights the advances in AI technology that will propel a revolution in...Read more
Ai-can-triage-chest-x-rays-in-record-time
2019 23 Jan
Chest X-rays are the routine 'go-to' test used as the first step in medical protocols to help diagnose multiple issues affecting the lungs, heart, bones and soft tissues. Chest X-rays comprise close to 50 percent of all diagnostic medical imaging performed globally. Consequently, the enormity of volume of these exams creates significant backlogs at...Read more
European-health-management-association-ehma-2019-annual-conference
2019 17 Jun
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Are-rankings-the-best-way-to-determine-healthcare-systems
2018 25 Jan
Uncovering the truth behind healthcare rankings. World healthcare rankings have been published since 2000 but have they made any difference? This article reviews the literature available and focuses on the media’s attention to the latest rankings issued in 2017. When it comes to healthcare, we just adore and perhaps relate easily to league...Read more
Healthio-2017
2017 03 May
HEALTHIO and Health2.0 Europe are co-located Events Find HEALTHIO Global on Social Media Read more
Ehma-annual-conference-2017-european-health-management-association
2017 13 Jun
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Ehma-european-health-management-association-annual-conference-2016
2016 14 Jun
Hosted by University of Porto, the 2016 EHMA Annual Conference “ New Models of Care. Reinventing healthcare: why, what, how” will be held at the exclusive home of Ordem dos Medicos in Porto, Portugal from 14 to 16 June 2016 . Healthcare systems worldwide are experiencing a “new normal” as they face challenges that will characterise the next...Read more
New-modeling-analysis-shows-screening-for-cervical-cancer-with-pap-hpv-together
2015 12 Nov
Co-testing could prevent more cases of invasive cervical cancer and cost the health care system less money over time, study shows Researchers presented a new clinical-economic modeling analysis this week showing that screening for cervical cancer with Pap+HPV Together™ (co-testing) using the Aptima® HPV assay (an mRNA-based HPV test) and the...Read more
Dr-nader-n-youssef-appointed-chief-medical-officer-of-electrocore
2015 06 Aug
6th August 2015, Basking Ridge, New Jersey; Dr Nader N Youssef, has been appointed Chief Medical Officer of electroCore, the US based electroceutical healthcare company. Nader brings more than 15 years of clinical, academic, and industry research experience to electroCore. He was previously Executive Director GI Global Clinical Development and...Read more
Modernization-of-healthcare-systems
2015 17 Sep
The most important Congress on Health Systems Modernization and Health Sustainability in the unique location of the San Raffaele University Hospital in Milano. The conference will aim to exchange on the content and goals of the EU strategy 2014-2020, considered as a priority both by the Member States and the European highest offices.Read more
Real-world-data-critical-for-healthcare
2014 20 Oct
A session at the European Health Forum 2014 put forward examples of best practices from projects and live implementation that are improving the way real world data can be used to improve healthcare. Clinical trial protocols often exclude relevant groups when evaluating medicines. They sometimes also fail to consider how a particular drug would...Read more
39th-world-hospital-congress-ihf-2015
2015 06 Oct
The International Hospital Federation (IHF) is the worldwide forum and knowledge hub for hospitals, national hospital associations and healthcare organizations that offers policy guidance and facilitates the exchange of strategic information and experience in health sector management. As a membership organization of national bodies representing healthcare...Read more