Search Tag: Health
2023 28 Feb
The 2022 edition of OECD’s Health at a Glance: Europe examines key challenges European countries must address to develop more resilient health systems following the COVID-19 pandemic. Key Points While mortality from the pandemic mainly affected older people, the pandemic also affected greatly the mental and physical health of young people...Read more
2022 02 Dec
In a new report by KLAS, researchers addressed what organisations can do to prevent staff burnout and improve patient care. Using research on provider burnout, electronic health record (EHR) experiences and other data from the Arch Collaborative, researchers discovered that many of the contributors of burnout have become less prevalent than...Read more
2022 18 Nov
U.S. government health officials have warned of an early and severe start to flu season. As the lockdowns during the pandemic reduced interactions for children, they are now being exposed to respiratory viruses for the first time again. Across the nation, figures have illustrated a fast increase in cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and...Read more
2022 08 Jul
Hospitals and other healthcare organisations are where health data is predominantly created. If the European Health Data Space (EHDS) is to become a reality for citizens, both via supporting primary use as well as secondary use of health data, data located in these organisations needs to be able to be shared. Experts, industry, and EU-funded projects...Read more
2021 23 Oct
Harry P. Pappas was recently appointed as Ambassador of the Health, Wellness, and Life Sciences Community at the Open Voice Network. The Open Voice Network is the new ‘standards’ body whose goal is bringing Interoperability, Security, Privacy and Trust to the VOICE technology industry. His focus is to use VOICE in the Health, Wellness and Life Sciences...Read more
2021 21 Jun
Workforce shortages are an issue faced by many hospital leaders. Implementing four basic child care policies in your institution, could be a game-changer when it comes to retaining workers - especially women, according to a recent article published in Harvard Business Review (HBR). During the pandemic, women have been disproportionately...Read more
2020 16 Nov
Now a virtual event due to COVID-19 health concerns Find MEDICA on Social Media Read more
2020 03 Feb
The European Society of Radiology (ESR) has reassured delegates already booked for the event and pointed to the option of attending its congress online as concerns about the spread of the Wuhan Coronavirus grow. ESR is holding its ECR meeting in Vienna from March 11 to 15. “So far, there has not been a single cancellation of an ECR 2020...Read more
2019 18 Nov
New research led by South Korean radiologists provides further proof as to how artificial intelligence can help improve diagnosis of lung cancer using medical imaging. Radiologists performed better in detecting malignant lung cancers on chest x-rays when they read images with deep-learning based software, according to the research published...Read more
2019 31 Oct
With artificial intelligence and telemedicine gaining a foothold in healthcare, there are fears about technology easing medical professionals out of their jobs. Those fears and other issues around growing health tech adoption were tackled at the recent Becker's Hospital Review Health IT + RCM conference held in Chicago. In a keynote address to...Read more
2019 30 Oct
Radiology care means ensuring optimal use of imaging for diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Needless to say, radiologists play an important role in helping referring physicians avoid ordering imaging tests that provide not much diagnostic value – and unnecessarily expose patients to radiation. That's certainly the main reason behind the American...Read more
2019 29 Oct
Telemedicine offers an opportunity for medical institutions to optimise delivery of care, especially for patients living in areas where healthcare facilities and resources are inadequate. However, there is a downside to this technology-driven approach: risks of patient data being leaked due to insecure telehealth systems. These privacy risks...Read more
2019 10 Oct
Provider organisations have focused their attention on improving healthcare experiences of individual patients. Now, researchers say hospitals and clinics can leverage these individual healthcare experiences ("micro-level encounters") towards improving the health and wellbeing of the communities they serve. A new study published in the Journal of...Read more
2019 26 Aug
Lions Health 2019 has offered new insights and discussions on how creativity is being embraced by the healthcare industry. Over two days, Lions Health 2019 offered new insights and fresh ideas on how creativity can be applied to improve healthcare through focussed discussion and knowledge. This year’s agenda included first-of-its-kind creativity covering...Read more
2020 14 Aug
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 HEALTH CONCERNS NEW DATES: AUGUST 14-16, 2020 CHANGED TO ONLINE MEETING Read more
2019 22 May
The FAIR4Health project supports wider publicly-funded health data use How FAIR4Health aims to enable safe and ethical sharing of all data and metadata derived from publicly-funded research. The FAIR principles are intended to ensure that people and machines can reuse data. These principles are designed to be applied to data and metadata...Read more
2019 03 Apr
Loathing your work, exhaustion, depersonalisation, feeling insignificant, struggling to find the will to get out of bed, addiction and suicide are symptoms of the growing global epidemic: burnout . Radiologists specifically experience high levels of burnout and this nasty trend is only getting worse. In a much needed effort to help address burnout...Read more