Search Tag: medical error

Decision Support

The-value-of-streamlining-protocol-dose-management-in-radiology

2022 28 May

The 2013/59/Euratom guidance mandates suitable documentation and quality assurance systems for all systems using ionising radiation. This regulation commonly applies to radiology departments in the clinical environment. Thus, each exam’s radiation dose must be documented to meet regulatory compliance and be audited.Doses also vary by procedure. For...Read more

Decision Support

Evaluating-ai-supported-cds-systems-with-real-world-evidence

2022 30 Mar

A new analysis from the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy details the data elements that real-world data (RWD) sources need when evaluating the performance of artificial intelligence (AI)-supported clinical decision support (CDS) tools.   Non-standardised electronic health record (EHR) systems and continually changing clinical workflows...Read more

ICU Management

Medical-error-and-harm-1

2022 17 Feb

Patients in the intensive care unit generally have complex healthcare issues with underlying comorbidities and organ dysfunction. They are thus more vulnerable to medical errors. Often, the treatment of these patients requires the use of interventions that could potentially result in adverse events, errors and harm. While critical care guidelines...Read more

ICU Management

Medical-error-harm-and-patient-safety-1

2022 17 Feb

Join our panellists on March 1 at 16:00 CET as they discuss the prevalence and types of medical errors in the ICU, the psychological impact of these errors, and strategies to prevent them and improve the safety of critically ill patients. Moderator Jean-Louis Vincent  Editor-in-Chief ICU Management & Practice Professor Department...Read more

ICU Management

Coping-with-the-psychological-impact-of-medical-errors-some-practical-strategies

2022 17 Feb

Significant efforts have been made to make hospitals and ICUs as safe as possible. As healthcare workers (HCWs) try to get through this pandemic, the focus of this article is to explore practical steps to help these workers better cope with the psychological effects of being involved in an error event. Introduction:...Read more

ICU Management

Patient-safety-in-the-icu-exploring-trends-in-adverse-events-in-icus

2022 17 Feb

Adverse events (AEs) are common among critically ill patients. Evidence about the nature, preventability and predictability of AEs can be used to reinvest in efforts to reduce them and improve patient safety in ICUs. Case Mr. A, a previously well 70-year-old male was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with respiratory...Read more

ICU Management

Medical-error-harm-and-patient-safety

2022 01 Mar

    Jean-Louis Vincent (MODERATOR) Editor-in-Chief  @ ICU Management & Practice Professor Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital Université libre de Bruxelles Brussels, Belgium   Khara M Sauro Assistant Professor  @ Departments of Community Health Sciences, Surgery and Oncology Topic : Exploring Trends...Read more

Decision Support

Ed-decision-support-for-discharging-suspected-covid-19-patients

2022 11 Feb

University of Minnesota Medical School researchers recently evaluated the performance of a prognostic clinical decision-making tool to facilitate emergency department discharges of suspected COVID-19 patients. The University of Minnesota developed this logistic regression tool to alleviate some of the stress that the COVID-19 pandemic has placed on...Read more

Decision Support

How-my-digital-self-helped-me-survive-cancer

2022 27 Jan

Imagine an avatar, a digital “you” so accurately mapped to your physical self that it could be used to personalize your healthcare, to predict and even prevent disease. It’s called a Digital Twin. And in the near future it’s going to become reality. Step into the future and read about how Anna’s Digital Twin saved her life. My cancer journey:...Read more

Decision Support

On-the-way-to-the-moon

2021 31 Aug

From the first digital X-ray images to the digital assistant If you took all of the digital data generated in the healthcare industry up to 2020 and loaded it onto tablets, would the stack of tablets be shorter or taller than the Empire State Building? The tablets would certainly have to store an almost unimaginable quantity of data. While...Read more

Decision Support

Siemens-healthineers-adds-pathway-for-lung-cancer-to-ai-based-clinical-decision-support-software

2021 10 Aug

New AI solution enables personalized decision making along the lung cancer pathway Facilitates patient management and case reviews by combining into a single dashboard Second pathway for AI-Pathway Companion after pathway for prostate cancer Siemens Healthineers  presents its second pathway for its AI-Pathway Companion 1  at the...Read more

Executive Health Management

How-to-create-the-healing-environment-of-the-future

2021 03 Aug

The human-centered approach to healthcare facility planning and design. Executive Summary Transforming care delivery through facility design and planning Healthcare environments continue to evolve, with new pressures from patients, staff, and payers driving care providers to be more people-centered and value-driven. Meeting the challenges...Read more

Sustainability

How-to-create-the-healing-environment-of-the-future

2021 03 Aug

The human-centered approach to healthcare facility planning and design. Executive Summary Transforming care delivery through facility design and planning Healthcare environments continue to evolve, with new pressures from patients, staff, and payers driving care providers to be more people-centered and value-driven. Meeting the challenges...Read more

Executive Health Management

The-value-of-digital-twin-technology

2021 03 Aug

Transforming care delivery in a single department or an entire healthcare enterprise. Executive Summary  Digital twin technology has proven its value in manufacturing, where use of connected technology to monitor performance, model processes, and optimize efficiency is already a mainstay of “Industry 4.0”. The link between the physical and...Read more

Executive Health Management

When-covid-19-strikes-we-learn-from-the-traces-it-leaves-behind

2021 11 Feb

Hot on the trail of COVID-19: Working with collaborators from around the world, a team began developing an algorithm that helps to evaluate changes in lung tissue. Read about how scientists reached a significant milestone during the pandemic. Putting the “AI” in aiding clinical decisions  One of the major challenges in radiology is dealing...Read more

Decision Support

Covid-19-antigen-test-achieved-ce-mark-for-easier-specimen-collection-from-the-frontal-part-of-nose

2021 12 Jan

The CLINITEST Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Test, distributed by Siemens Healthineers , can now be used with swabs from the frontal (anterior) part of the nose, in addition to the nasopharyngeal swab method. The new anterior method offers 97.3% sensitivity and 100% specificity. This new sampling method can be used with existing test kits in the field,...Read more