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Heart Failure – Noninvasive Hemodynamic Monitoring on the Rise
Heart Failure (HF) is a major and public health problem as it affects at least 26 million people worldwide and will dramatically increase with an ageing population. Currently 5.7 million people suffer from HF in the US with an expected 46% increase in prevalence by 2030.[1] This is an alarming number especially when accounting for increasing health...
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Going from a Culture of Blame and Denial to a Culture of Safety
Summary: Many healthcare organisations face difficulties while managing transition from a culture of blame and denial to a culture of safety. To succeed, leaders should identify obstacles, create an environment of trust and set an example with their own actions. Healthcare holds traditions in high esteem. The white coat and nursing pin ceremonies...
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New Catalonian Digital Health Strategy: A Presentation
Summary: The Digital Health Strategy for Catalonia (Spain) is one of the current few ambitious initiatives of health information systems’ transformation in Europe. Similar to other developed countries around the world, the public health system of Catalonia is subject to tensions, challenges and opportunities that mainly result from an ageing...
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How Healthcare Can Unlock the Promise of Big Data
Summary: The healthcare space will not only need to change its systems, operations and infrastructure, but also healthcare professionals may have to adopt an innovative mindset to embrace the changes and challenges brought to their working lives by implementing big data. I believe that big data present enormous opportunities in the healthcare...
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Artificial Intelligence - Putting Patients First
A recent MIT Technology Review Insights survey looked at the current and potential future applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare environment. This article discusses the survey’s findings, and looks at how these technologies are ‘re-humanizing’ healthcare, by aiding the transition from target- to value-based care models....
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Leveraging the Power of AI on Smart Devices
The results of the MIT Technology Review survey, in partnership with GE Healthcare, emphasize AI’s potential and ensure that the technology is here to stay, but its ability to overcome potential disruption must be addressed. GE Healthcare believes the solution is in packaging. By unlocking data, breaking it out of silos, and deploying it...
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The English Patients: This UK Hospital Is Harnessing AI To Deliver Slicker Service
If you watched the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games in 2012, you will know that British people love their National Health Service (NHS) as much as they cherish Peter Pan, The Beatles and James Bond. The ceremony’s climax was an eccentric and poignant dance routine that celebrated the NHS’s special place in the nation’s heart....
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Image Quality Means Confidence
Our radiology center has been working with the Planmed Clarity™ 3D digital mammography tomosynthesis unit for the past three years. The center provides full imaging portfolio including MRI, CT, mammography, ultrasound, X-rays, and bone densitometry. Everyone at our center loves working with Planmed Clarity™ 3D system for several reasons. ...
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Brexit Disruption Harnessed for Better NHS
Summary: The UK National Health Service (NHS) has been a cornerstone of deliberations for Brexit, Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU). Proceedings have put into high relief operational problems faced by the NHS with concerns over nurse numbers at the forefront. With the UK set to leave the EU on January 31, 2020, how is the NHS addressing...
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Is There an Alternative to Costly Tech For Future Healthcare?
Summary: An HIT expert gives his view on how healthcare can be revamped by harnessing technology for existing care modalities rather than overhauling the entire system. I think the next few years will be characterised by a much better exploitation of systems that are used routinely in the care system. My impression is that we have a lot of...
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