Search Tag: performance

IMAGING Management

Ai-demonstrates-comparable-performance-to-human-mammogram-readers

2023 20 Sep

Researchers in the UK conducted a comparative study using a standardised assessment to evaluate the performance of a commercially available artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm with human readers of screening mammograms. The outcomes of this research have been published in the Radiology journal.   Although double reading can increase cancer...Read more

Executive Health Management

Improving-quality-of-care-the-vital-role-of-peoples-voices

2022 28 Mar

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IMAGING Management

Emergency-radiology-simulator-for-medical-non-medical-experts

2019 30 Apr

Radiology residency programs traditionally assess residents using tools with a focus on Medical Expert CanMeds roles through Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCE's), mock-oral exams and multiple choice in-service examinations. These all are performed typically by using a single, or limited number of static images presented in isolation from...Read more

IMAGING Management

Ecr2019-imaging-informatics-management-performance

2019 06 Mar

Professor Luis Donoso-Bach , head of the department of medical imaging, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, presented the keynote lecture “ Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Informatics: management and performance analysis.” It his poignant and informative presentation he emphasised “ the race is on” as the roles in the healthcare continuum...Read more

Executive Health Management

How-to-analyse-past-professional-experience-for-future-success

2019 21 Jan

Reviewing performance for focused and effective learning A New Year represents a time to focus, regroup and set new professional targets. Corporate trainer, Michael Virardi, provides tips on getting the most out of reflection time. As we head into 2019, i’d like to share with you three of the most vital lessons...Read more

Health Management

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2017 21 Aug

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Health Management

Appraisals-in-healthcare-are-traditional-performance-appraisals-suitable-for-healthcare-workers

2017 21 Aug

Further work is required in healthcare settings to create productive systems for ongoing reviews that accumulate in an annual review that focuses on the individual’s growth or continuing professional development.   Appraisals can be summarised as “a formal documented system for the periodic review of an individual’s performance” (Moon...Read more

Health Management

Identifying-controlling-and-reducing-overhead-costs

2016 13 Nov

Precisely Defining Indirect Overhead Costs or Diagnosis/Treatment-related Expenses is a Challenge   Certain operating expenses are necessary to keep businesses functioning. However, in healthcare, drawing clear boundaries between diagnosis/treatment-related expenses and overhead costs is not always easy. In some cases, overhead expenses might...Read more

ICU Management

Measuring-icu-performance-in-value-based-healthcare-era

2016 29 Jul

In the move to value-based payment for U.S. healthcare, performance measures will increase in importance, and will focus on clinical quality, resource utilisation, clinical practice improvement and meaningful use of electronic health record technology. Current performance measures, however, often lack validity and interdisciplinary measures are needed...Read more

Executive Health Management

3-ways-to-measure-your-leadership-success

2016 17 Feb

The ability to make people follow your command may give you reason to think that you are an effective leader. But measuring your success as a leader requires a far more nuanced view, according to a strategy+business blog post by Eric J. McNulty, director of research at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) at the Harvard School of...Read more

ICU Management

Esicm-2015-ready-for-your-close-up-public-data-disclosure

2015 13 Oct

Intensivists need to prepare for compulsory reporting of public data, says Andrew Rhodes, London. It’s happened in surgery ( see UK example ), and it’s coming to intensive care, in the UK and the Netherlands. Rhodes was speaking at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine annual congress in Berlin, 3-7 October.   Florence Nightingale had it...Read more

IT Management

Three-steps-to-thinking-like-a-leader

2015 11 Aug

Certain desirable skills and attributes can help you become a leader — that's according to competency-based models. But to be an effective leader, you need to adopt a mental model that makes it possible to acquire those skills and demonstrate those attributes/behaviours in the first place, according to Eric J. McNulty, director of research at the National...Read more