Search Tag: trust

IT Management

Smashing-patient-data-silos-with-blockchain

2020 04 Mar

Ideally, with digital technology, storing and sharing of healthcare data can be done in a breeze. Despite widening use of EHRs, however, sharing of patient data between provider organisations remains difficult. This problem highlights the lack of interoperability in medical records.     You might also like: UAE Launches Health Data Storage...Read more

IMAGING Management

White-paper-reveals-what-radiologists-really-feel-about-ai

2020 21 Jan

Radiologic technologists are, on the whole, positive about the future role AI in imaging according to a recent white paper published by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists Foundation.   Named The Artificial Intelligence Era: The Role of Radiologic Technologists and Radiation Therapists , the 21-page white paper gathered data and...Read more

IMAGING Management

Costly-radiology-callbacks-erode-patient-trust-how-to-reduce-them

2020 06 Jan

Imaging "callbacks" refer to instances when patients are asked to undergo a repeat or additional radiologic examination. While such callbacks may be uncommon, these are inconvenient for patients and can erode their trust in radiologists, according to researchers with the Department of Radiology at Michigan Medicine. You might also like: Malpractice:...Read more

Executive Health Management

In-data-we-trust

2019 26 Aug

An efficient mHealth network relies on patient data but provision of such data requires confidence that it is being sourced and used with integrity. HealthManagement.org spoke to three health data experts for their views on what healthcare can do to secure patient trust when it comes to accessing and using their data.   Jaana Sinipuro Project...Read more

Executive Health Management

Trust-abundant-team-principles

2019 22 Feb

Effective models of trust How can you incorporate the all-important ingredient of trust within your healthcare team? Once upon a time, it was possible for a doctor to hold most of what she needed to know to practice medicine within her own brain. This was long before Google and before medicine was carved up into specialties...Read more

Executive Health Management

Is-blockchain-the-right-technology-for-healthcare

2019 21 Jan

Blockchain technology is touted as being potentially revolutionary, but what’s the view for the healthcare sector? Known for being an industry that’s slow to adopt and adapt to new tech, could there be any value in Blockchain for healthcare? HealthManagement.org spoke to four Blockchain experts for their views.  Kamales Lardi  Managing Partner ...Read more

Executive Health Management

How-blockchain-will-transform-healthcare

2019 21 Jan

Adoption of distributed ledger technology will benefit patients and providers Blockchain is more than just a technology that allows us to do what we already do better, faster and cheaper. This peer-to-peer new technology has the potential to create a more inclusive economy, where patients can benefit from health data ownership. One...Read more

Executive Health Management

Who-stands-to-benefit-from-healthcare-blockchain

2019 21 Jan

Blockchain revolutionises data security, research and monetisation Blockchain can provide the backbone for a health data infrastructure that enables patients to control and benefit financially from their health data. The power of health data  The tsunami of personal data brought about by the digital revolution now extends far beyond...Read more

Executive Health Management

Blockchain-solves-healthcare-data-obstacles

2019 21 Jan

Incentivising patients with tokenomics of health data  A cryptocurrency that represents the value of health information can motivate individuals to make their health data shareable to those who are willing to pay for it. Tokens are well established in the context of Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. It’s a digital asset that...Read more

Executive Health Management

London-syncope-meeting-2019

2019 04 Jun

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Executive Health Management

A-little-r-e-s-p-e-c-t

2017 18 Jul

Cultivating a culture of respect and trust among staff is important to the success of an organisation. It can also be a big factor in improving patient care, as shown by the experience of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.      At NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, executives found that cultivating a “culture of respect” among staff meant simply listening...Read more

Health Management

Digital-health-hub-at-your-service-if-you-earn-citizen-trust

2017 07 May

The Digital Health Hub is a joint project of Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund and The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. The project goal is to facilitate the use of national data reserves and design of the one-stop shop for health and social care data.   The mention of data exploitation may sound scary, but at its best it can mean...Read more

Executive Health Management

Unc-collaboration-on-halting-violence-against-clinicians-in-china

2016 23 Aug

This spring, retired Director of Oral Health at Guangdong General Hospital in China, Chen Zhongwei, was attacked and killed by a patient he treated more 20 years earlier. The patient had claimed he was entitled to compensation for a discoloured tooth. He followed the dentist home and stabbed him over 30 times. Sadly, this story is not an uncommon...Read more

IMAGING Management

Conflict-costs-a-new-approach-to-avoidance

2015 01 Jun

Conflict is inevitable in any activity and can entail massive costs. It results in lost productivity and collaboration, and in healthcare, it results in worsened patient outcomes. A report, entitled "Understanding the Cost of Conflict and an Approach to Conflict-Management Design" and published in Journal of the American College of Radiology , discusses...Read more

IT Management

Strengthening-public-trust-in-data-sharing

2015 15 Feb

Biobanks are made all the more valuable when the biological samples they hold can be linked to health information collected in research, electronic health records (EHR), or public health practice. Such data linkages, however, have raised concerns about patient privacy and data security. Incidentally, public trust in systems that share health information...Read more