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Executive Health Management

17th-annual-personalised-medicine-conference

2023 30 Nov

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IT Management

New-study-shows-telemedicine-has-clear-benefits-for-patients

2022 18 Nov

Telemedicine was the most cost-effective and safest solution to offering accessible and high-quality care during the COVID-19 pandemic.   Authors working on a new study by WHO/Europe and the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, provided a general review of the status of telemedicine in Europe and Central Asia. They...Read more

ICU Management

Surge-mechanical-ventilation-during-covid-19

2022 09 Aug

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many hospitals in the U.S. exceeded their mechanical ventilation capability. As COVID-19 spread to communities with limited immunity, challenges associated with providing surge mechanical ventilation were reported. Hospitals, healthcare systems, and jurisdictional authorities purchased more ventilators. But the fear that the...Read more

IMAGING Management

Ecr2022-impact-of-covid-19-pandemic-on-radiology

2022 14 Jul

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in January 2020. Radiologists have played a critical role in patient management and COVID-19 diagnosis since the beginning of this pandemic. Real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) remains the standard of reference for COVID-19 detection....Read more

ICU Management

Covid-19-vaccines-prevented-20-million-deaths-worldwide

2022 28 Jun

Findings from the first modelling study to quantify the impact of COVID-19 vaccines show that nearly 19.9 million out of a potential 31.4 million deaths were prevented in the first year (December 2020-December 2021) after the introduction of the vaccine. The findings are based on data from 185 countries using COVID-19 death records and total excess...Read more

IT Management

Tre-ondate-dopo-cosa-ci-ha-insegnato-la-pandemia-sulle-health

2021 04 Nov

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Health Management

Covid-19-pandemic-health-social-and-economic-consequences

2021 20 Oct

The spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-COV-2, originating from Wuhan, China  two years ago, has brought dramatic changes in global health systems, leading to thousands of deaths worldwide, jeopardising the treatment of patients with chronic diseases and pushing societies to psychological breakdown. If economic ‘dyspragia’ is added, the mixture...Read more

IT Management

Dealing-with-data-how-to-build-a-statistical-surveillance-dashboard-for-covid-19

2021 20 Jul

When a major national or global health crisis or pandemic such as the current COVID-19 breaks out, it is important that there is an effective monitoring system in place. The proposed statistical surveillance dashboard can provide authorities and other decision makers with insights and in-depth data analysis to help them make critical decisions....Read more

Cardiology Management

Effect-of-covid-19-on-life-expectancy

2021 27 Jun

According to latest findings, decreases in life expectancy during 2020 were much larger in the United States than in other high income countries, particularly among Hispanic and Black Americans.  The findings show that between 2018 and 2020, life expectancy in the U.S. decreased by almost two years - 8.5 times the average decrease in 16 other comparable...Read more

ICU Management

Family-presence-for-icu-patients-during-a-pandemic

2021 18 May

The effects of critical illness on patients and their families last long after the illness episode. While the patient may be suffering from a serious condition, family members also suffer the consequences and may experience symptoms like depression and traumatic stress.   To provide improved support to families, it is important to incorporate the...Read more

Executive Health Management

Key-learnings-from-the-covid-19-pandemic-1

2021 14 Oct

Speaker Dr. Arturo Casadevall Chair, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Find Ortho Clinical Diagnostics On Social Media Read more

Executive Health Management

Un-global-shortage-of-nearly-1-million-midwives-will-cost-lives

2021 06 May

A new  report from the United Nations raises the alarm on the number of midwives, warning that millions of lives could be saved if the shortfall were addressed. The acute shortage of 900,000 midwives represents a third of the required global midwifery workforce, says a study carried out jointly by the UN Population Fund, the World Health Organization...Read more

Executive Health Management

Call-to-action-we-must-address-mental-and-physical-needs-of-female-staff

2021 06 May

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a significant toll on women working in health and social care in the UK, a newly released report  from the NHS Confederation’s Health and Care Women Leaders Network has revealed.   The report outlines the results of a survey of more than 800 health and care workers in England who identified as female. The survey,...Read more

IT Management

Will-your-mobile-phone-soon-be-able-to-detect-covid-19

2021 03 May

The NIH   recently approved a 24-month grant for researchers to develop sensors that can be embedded into mobile devices which could potentially detect COVID-19 particles on their surfaces. The General Electric Research team is set to begin developing   miniature sensors that can be embedded into mobile devices in order to detect COVID-19 on...Read more