Search Tag: patient data

Health Management

Effective-workforce-transformation

2022 09 Nov

The most important asset for healthcare is healthcare workers. However, this sector faces significant challenges regarding this valuable resource, which have been further exacerbated because of the pandemic. According to the World Health Organization, there will be a  shortfall of 15 million healthcare workers by 2030 . Clearly, the future...Read more

IT Management

Precision-health-putting-an-overview-of-a-patients-cancer-data-at-doctors-fingertips

2021 30 Nov

When Prof. James Brenton was seeing one of his patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital recently for ovarian cancer treatment, he needed to review all her studies and treatments. The information was complex and lengthy: blood test results, genomic tests, imaging studies and reports from past therapy. Brenton hadn’t been able to attend the tumor board meeting...Read more

IMAGING Management

Cybersecurity-challenges-for-medical-imaging

2020 19 Oct

Cybersecurity issues have been affecting the healthcare sector in recent years. As the use of the internet has expanded over the last two decades, hospitals worldwide have also adopted technology. Patient health information and electronic health records are now used routinely in healthcare.    However, while this adoption of technology is a positive...Read more

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity-challenges-for-medical-imaging

2020 19 Oct

Cybersecurity issues have been affecting the healthcare sector in recent years. As the use of the internet has expanded over the last two decades, hospitals worldwide have also adopted technology. Patient health information and electronic health records are now used routinely in healthcare.    However, while this adoption of technology is a positive...Read more

Executive Health Management

The-global-effort-to-manage-covid-19-through-collaboration-and-clinical-terminology

2020 11 May

Management of patient information and information standards regarding sharing, analysis and planning have become critical today. SNOMED International offers SNOMED CT, the world’s largest clinical terminology with a collection of 350,000+ clinical concepts for improved management of patient data. The global campaign to address COVID-19 is being...Read more

Executive Health Management

Improving-patient-experience-in-the-era-of-digitisation

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

IT Management

New-uk-it-cybersecurity-rules

2018 20 Nov

In this age of digital communication, healthcare organisations face new challenges in protecting sensitive patient information. Within NHS trusts, for instance, consumer messaging apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are now widely used by staff for sending or sharing patient data.    Amidst this widespread app use, the U.K. NHS recently...Read more

IT Management

Nhs-england-barriers-to-interoperability

2018 22 May

A new report has identified key barriers to increased interoperability in NHS England, including inadequate technical and clinical standards as well as unwillingness to share data.  Although a substantial amount of patient data is being shared within the NHS – mostly via 61 local shared records across England – much of this sharing is limited...Read more

IT Management

Dhealth-conference-by-ehealth-forum-2017

2017 19 Oct

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