Search Tag: patient care
2023 04 Oct
The public will be invited to play a role in shaping how the NHS uses their health data to enhance patient care. As part of a series of significant events, the NHS plans to gather public opinions on the digital and data transformation within the healthcare system. These events will provide the public with a valuable opportunity to inform the NHS's...Read more
2023 26 Jun
According to experts, AI will have an expanding role in healthcare administration and patient care. This technology will make operations that hospitals and health systems run more efficiently, less costly and will help to address challenges such as workforce shortages. For example, AI will help hospitals better plan their available hospital bed resources....Read more
2023 21 Jun
Months ago, concerns were raised about the deteriorating wait times for critical medical imaging in British Columbia, warning of potential consequences such as an influx of cancer cases. Now, radiologists in the province are revealing that privately-run clinics, responsible for half of the screenings, are facing severe underfunding that may result...Read more
2022 17 Mar
New solution to help providers deliver improved patient outcomes, optimize care delivery, enhance clinical and operational decision making, accelerate clinical research and time-to-market, and more Industry-leading customers like Anthem, Health Catalyst, IQVIA, Komodo Health, Novartis, Spectrum Health, and others, are using the Healthcare & Life...Read more
2020 29 Aug
COVID-19 has ignited the need for data-driven decision making, personalised healthcare and digital delivery. How can the NHS become a customer-focused organisation and reimagine healthcare to meet evolving priorities? Key Points To deliver world-leading health outcomes, the NHS needs to get comfortable with new concepts of healthcare...Read more
2019 23 Oct
Emissions from motor vehicles, factories, power plants and other sources are amongst the most common causes of air pollution. Unfortunately, the quality of air has a direct impact on population health. For example, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a chronic inflammatory lung disease, can be exacerbated by constant exposure to dirty air....Read more
2019 02 Oct
An overview of Affidea’s journey embedding digital tools across its network to orchestrate patient care and improve patient experience. It was the airline industry which proved 60 years ago that through digitisation, airports could become more efficient and safer. Airports introduced the air traffic control technology which allowed them to...Read more
2019 02 Oct
Summary: Groundbreaking study at the University at Buffalo uses brain stimulation to assess how large-scale patterns of brain activity could vary between cognitive systems and across people. Our research at the University at Buffalo explores brain activity and its association with cognitive systems. Each cognitive system consists of a network...Read more
2019 23 Apr
For all it's value and pivotal role in furthering health, medicine and innovation, information technology (IT) has created a very significant caveat: risk in communicating unexpected findings. A report published in JACR explains how failure to communicate is one of the greatest problems facing radiologists today. Courts have consistently found that...Read more
2019 20 Feb
Executive Summary Doctors are trained in medical science, and to consider the astute point-of-view of Dr. Daniel A. Lichtenstein , the foremost expert in c ritical care ultrasound , on the "art of reasoning" being applied at work is indeed a revelation. This is how he describes the uniqueness of ultrasound as a clinical tool . ...Read more
2018 10 Oct
As adoption of value-based care models broadens, there has been an emerging emphasis on patient-reported outcomes (PROs), both for reimbursement and for clinical decision making. Research shows PROs can help streamline physician practices and pave the way for patient-centred care. A new study by Stanford researchers evaluated the implementation...Read more
2018 21 Aug
Paul Jülicher Director International Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Abbott Diagnostics Matt Sawtell General Manager Nordics, Abbott Diagnostics Unleashing the value of IVD testing The value of in vitro diagnostic services is like beauty – it's very much in the eye of the beholder. From a community perspective,...Read more
2018 04 Jul
Politician Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, famously asserted at the service’s birth in 1948, “If a hospital bedpan is dropped in a hospital corridor in Tredegar, the reverberations should echo around Whitehall.” Southeast Wales is less than 260 miles from London; it would have to be one very noisy reverberation...Read more
2018 18 May
With European Obesity Day taking place on May 19, General Practitioners (GPs) across Europe are calling for increased and improved training on obesity for more effective patient care. More than 700 GPs from seven European countries took part in a survey that revealed nearly one third do not feel informed enough about the complexities of obesity...Read more
2018 25 Jan
Th e w a y f o r wa r d f or U S h e a l t h c a r e Experts d r aw their conclusions on the American health sys t em and what needs to b e done to e r adica t e the many p r oblems that continue...Read more
2017 25 Sep
A new online toolkit that can help nurses and other health professionals in their effort to integrate genomics into patient care has been launched by the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Developed with input from clinical educators and administrators, the toolkit has more than 100 resources catering to the needs of nursing leaders...Read more
2016 26 Oct
The third European Congress on eCardiology and eHealth is dedicated to the use of eHealth solutions in every aspect of cardiovascular care such as prevention, diagnosis, risk assessment, monitoring, education, counselling and treatment. Join us in Berlin, in October 2016, to present on or learn about new technological platforms, products and/or services...Read more