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Executive Health Management

2nd-middle-east-laboratory-and-diagnostics-congress

2019 18 Apr

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Health Management

Volume-19-issue-1-2019

2019 21 Jan

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Patient-safety-culture

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

Executive Health Management

Hett-2019

2019 01 Oct

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Imaging-innovation-s-critical-role-in-healthcare-s-future-1

2018 07 Nov

With the shift toward value-based care, healthcare providers are focused on their most pressing challenges: improving the patient and staff experience; increasing diagnostic confidence; enabling greater efficiency and productivity; and facilitating data-driven practice management. The need to connect data and technology to enable precision healthcare...Read more

Executive Health Management

27th-aha-leadership-summit

2019 25 Jul

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The-digital-healthcare-show-ehi-live-2019

2019 26 Jun

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Hospital-management-asia-2019

2019 11 Sep

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IMAGING Management

Successful-quality-management-system-in-a-radiology-department

2018 22 Sep

Basic components of effective performance improvement programmes include patient safety, process improvement, customer service, professional staff assessment, and education, each of which requires strategies for implementing continuous programmes to monitor performance, analyse data, implement change, and meet regulatory requirements....Read more

IT Management

Short-read-patient-safety-and-simple-solution-to-electronic-clinical-handover

2018 15 Aug

Clinical handover is the transfer of professional responsibility and accountability for some or all aspects of a patient’s care to another person or team, either on a temporary or permanent basis. With the decrease in hours worked in modern medical practice, the number of handovers performed has increased proportionally. This has raised concerns...Read more

Executive Health Management

Medical-deaths-should-doctors-be-allowed-to-learn-from-mistakes

2018 12 Jun

Patient safety is an important consideration in the delivery of care. While providers continually seek ways to improve patient safety and overall quality of care, medical mistakes sometimes happen. In the UK, reports say Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is set to announce new measures aimed at protecting doctors and medical staff when mistakes are...Read more

Executive Health Management

7th-annual-world-patient-safety-science-technology-summit

2019 18 Jan

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Supply-chain-management-in-the-operating-room

2018 05 Apr

In a hospital, the operating room is one of the costliest units to run. A new study by Cardinal Health suggests that better supply chain management systems and analytics are needed to help reduce OR costs and support patient safety. In a survey of surgical staff and hospital supply chain heads, Cardinal Health researchers found that OR surgeons and...Read more

ICU Management

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2018 16 Mar

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Developing-new-approaches-to-patient-safety

2018 16 Mar

International Society for Rapid Response Systems joins with the Patient Safety Congress in 2018 The International Society for Rapid Response Systems joins with the Patient Safety Congress in July 2018 to develop new approaches to managing patients at risk of deterioration. Identification and treatment of deteriorating hospital patients is a major...Read more

Executive Health Management

Hospital-quality-institute-california-hospital-association-patient-safety-movement-partner-up

2018 26 Feb

The Hospital Quality Institute (HQI), the California Hospital Association and the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) have formed a partnership to accelerate the reduction of medical errors and eliminate preventable patient deaths in hospitals across the Golden State. The central focus of the partnership will be an innovative, publicly available...Read more

Executive Health Management

President-clinton-addresses-healthcare-leaders-at-world-patient-safety-science-technology-summit-1

2018 26 Feb

How would US President Clinton change healthcare if he were President of the United States today? That was one of many questions answered as the 42nd President of the United States met with healthcare leaders at the 6th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit , Co-Convened by European Society of Anesthesiology, President Clinton’s...Read more

Health Management

Electronic-clinical-handover-a-simple-solution-to-a-complex-problem

2018 20 Feb

A simple solution to a complex problem.  Implementing electronic clinical handover in a hospital for better patient safety Clinical handover: defining the problem Clinical handover is defined as inter-clinician communication occurring at care interfaces. This usually refers to changes of shift within a clinical team. In essence, clinical...Read more

Health Management

Deconstruction-of-business-processes-to-disruption-of-business-models

2018 20 Feb

How healthcare IT can impact business models.  What is the potential for information technology to transform healthcare processes and where will the consumer stand? For more than eleven years, I have been active via the European Association of Hospital Managers (EAHM) as a pro-bono member of the board of ENTSCHEIDERFABRIK. This is the incubator...Read more

Health Management

Happy-staff-safe-patients

2018 20 Feb

An interview with Dr. Umesh Prabhu.  Leading NHS medical director, Dr. Umesh Prabhu on what a hospital can do to improve patient safety – yesterday. Patient safety is a critical area of focus for all healthcare institutions, requiring involvement from all levels, from the board to individual staff members on the frontline, Dr Umesh Prabhu,...Read more

Executive Health Management

6th-annual-world-patient-safety-science-technology-summit

2018 23 Feb

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ICU Management

Artemis-hospital-becomes-first-in-india-to-adopt-masimo-patient-safetynet

2017 05 Dec

Masimo  announced today that Artemis Hospital, one of the leading multi-specialty hospitals in the Delhi-NCR region of India, is adopting Masimo Patient SafetyNet™*, a supplemental remote monitoring and clinician notification system, across all hospital care areas. Patient SafetyNet, in conjunction with SET® pulse oximetry and rainbow® pulse CO-oximetry,...Read more

ICU Management

Lives-2017-psychological-safety-vital-to-patient-care

2017 25 Sep

Speaking up is vital to patient safety, but healthcare professionals need a climate of psychological safety to be able to do so, said Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School. Edmondson was the keynote speaker at the 30th congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, meeting in Vienna...Read more

Health Management

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2017 21 Aug

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Health Management

Pursuing-a-culture-of-safety-the-importance-of-self-regulation

2017 21 Aug

Professional self-regulation is effective when dealing with staff with high numbers of patient complaints and coworker observations.     The Vanderbilt Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy is dedicated to making medicine kinder, safer, and more reliable by supporting their partners’ objectives of using professionalism as the...Read more

Cardiology Management

Artificial-intelligence-assists-in-treatment-of-heart-patients

2017 17 Jun

A clinical study was recently launched by Finnish researchers to use the latest analytical methods to recognise myocardial infarction patients at high risk of complications. The University of Tampere and TAYS Heart Hospital use artificial intelligence technologies for the home care of heart patients. Their goal is to predict complications as early...Read more

IT Management

Study-ehrs-full-of-copy-and-paste-records

2017 06 Jun

A key benefit from using electronic health records is that it improves care coordination, given that information can be shared easily between care providers. But a new study published in JAMA shows that EHRs contain mostly copy-and-paste data, which may put patient safety at risk. Researchers at University of California San Francisco examined thousands...Read more

Executive Health Management

Admit-mistakes-to-curb-medical-errors

2017 23 May

Research suggests that medical errors cause over 250,000 fatalities each year. While the medical community has made efforts to encourage error disclosure for physicians and medical trainees to improve patient safety and outcomes, the guidelines fall short when addressing the social psychology of how errors are disclosed and how physicians and medical...Read more

IMAGING Management

Essential-guidelines-for-medical-3d-printing-patient-safety-comes-first-1

2017 09 May

3D Printing is becoming progressively more accessible and is gaining momentum in several fields of medicine. From preoperative planning to developing innovative tools that enhance medical procedures, the endless possibilities in creating  3D anatomical models  make the technology highly seductive in the quest to help patients.  Ever since its inception,...Read more