Search Tag: COVID-19 pandemic

IT Management

Survey-reveals-organisations-embrace-emerging-technologies-for-competitive-advantage

2023 29 Nov

Based on the data presented in the ‘Digital Transformation and Emerging Technologies in the Healthcare Industry’ report, nearly 71% of healthcare professionals confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic had the greatest impact on accelerating digital transformation in the healthcare sector. To stay competitive, numerous organisations are actively embracing...Read more

Finance Management

Empowering-africa-local-manufacturing-of-diagnostic-tools

2023 06 Sep

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the global issue of insufficient access to diagnostic tools. In Africa, limited access to affordable and accessible diagnostic tools significantly hindered efforts to track and contain COVID-19. It's crucial to recognise that this issue is not specific to the pandemic; rather, it persists as an ongoing challenge in...Read more

Executive Health Management

Patient-experiences-in-hospitals-change-amidst-the-covid-19-pandemic

2023 31 Aug

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic posed unparalleled challenges for acute-care hospitals. To control the spread of COVID-19 infection, hospitals adopted new protocols, including social distancing and restricted visitor access.   A recent cohort study looked to describe differences in 2020 to 2021 patient experiences to assess whether the...Read more

Executive Health Management

Major-healthcare-impacts-of-covid-19

2022 21 Dec

“Health at a Glance: Europe 2022” outlines the impact of the pandemic on health services across Europe, from primary care to hospital treatment, and the disruptions this placed on the care delivered to non-COVID-19 patients.    The pandemic and the measures implemented to prevent transmission of the virus led to an unprecedented decline in people’s...Read more

Executive Health Management

Digitalisation-in-healthcare-embracing-digital-front-doors

2022 29 Apr

Herbert Staehr serves as Global Head of Transforming Care Delivery for Siemens Healthineers, driving the company’s activities and messaging around delivering high-value care. In this capacity, he develops and executes programmes and outreach strategies aimed at healthcare providers around the world, as well as stakeholders in every branch of the healthcare...Read more

Digital Transformation

Digitalisation-in-healthcare-embracing-digital-front-doors

2022 29 Apr

Herbert Staehr serves as Global Head of Transforming Care Delivery for Siemens Healthineers, driving the company’s activities and messaging around delivering high-value care. In this capacity, he develops and executes programmes and outreach strategies aimed at healthcare providers around the world, as well as stakeholders in every branch of the healthcare...Read more

Executive Health Management

Siemens-healthineers-and-unicef-partner-to-help-improve-access-to-healthcare-in-sub-saharan-africa

2022 17 Feb

Siemens Healthineers and UNICEF enter a partnership to help optimize Point-of-Care (POC) diagnostics networks The partnership is designed to strengthen health systems strained by the protracted COVID-19 pandemic and foster community engagement Siemens Healthineers and the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF today announced a partnership...Read more

Decision Support

Ed-decision-support-for-discharging-suspected-covid-19-patients

2022 11 Feb

University of Minnesota Medical School researchers recently evaluated the performance of a prognostic clinical decision-making tool to facilitate emergency department discharges of suspected COVID-19 patients. The University of Minnesota developed this logistic regression tool to alleviate some of the stress that the COVID-19 pandemic has placed on...Read more

IMAGING Management

Rsna-president-urges-radiology-to-refine-itself

2021 30 Nov

RSNA President, Dr Mary Mahoney, at RSNA 2021’s opening session Sunday afternoon, urged radiology to use lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to refine itself as a ‘value-based, service-oriented specialty’.   Dr Mahoney’s lecture focused on using the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 crisis to move forward. The pandemic uncovered weaknesses in...Read more

ICU Management

Maximizing-the-benefits-of-covid-19-vaccines-with-the-right-serological-tests

2021 20 Oct

Background  Since the end of 2019, the world has been fighting the unprecedented global COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARSCoV-2. 1 This pandemic inspired significant efforts for the development of diagnostic tests, therapeutics and vaccines. 2,3,4 As a result, multiple efficacious COVID-19 vaccines have been developed and authorized in record speed5...Read more

Health Management

Show-me-the-money

2021 20 Oct

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe. Healthcare systems are facing significant financial challenges in terms of lost revenue, resource shortages, and increased healthcare costs. Never before has there been a greater need to focus on planning and budgeting, identifying reasons for the lack of preparedness by the healthcare sector,...Read more

Health Management

Establishing-digitally-enabled-healthcare-the-need-to-move-from-high-touch-to-relevant-touch

2021 20 Oct

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the true power of digital in healthcare. But while technology has helped, it cannot replace the power of human contact. The benefits of digital health cannot be denied but it is also important to establish digitally enabled healthcare while prioritising the human touch. Key Points  In healthcare, one...Read more

ICU Management

Sedana-medical-presents-at-esicm

2021 30 Sep

Sedana Medical AB (publ) has announces that the company will hold a scientific symposium at ESICM Lives 2021, the annual congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Additional data on inhaled sedation will also be presented at the congress. ESICM Lives 2021 will be held digitally October 3-6 and Sedana Medical will arrange a scientific...Read more

Health Management

Health-and-the-city-1

2021 09 Sep

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it abundantly clear that healthcare systems worldwide need significant transformation and change. There is an urgent need for new models of care to improve patient outcomes and be better prepared for future health crises similar to the recent pandemic.  With the increasing prevalence of chronic disease and a...Read more

Health Management

Human-matters

2021 26 Apr

The COVID-19 pandemic has put human resources under a huge challenge. Healthcare workers are facing mental health issues, burnout, discrimination, violence, issues with personal protection and safety, sexism, racism, shortage of resources and much more. Patients infected with COVID-19 are suffering from severe illness and helplessness. Normal citizens...Read more

IMAGING Management

Building-resilience-in-children-during-covid-19

2021 22 Apr

The COVID-19 pandemic has some potential positive outcomes, including opportunities to increase resilience in children. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in death and serious illness for millions of people. Frustratingly, many of these individuals suffered and died because mitigation efforts, which should have been sensible scientific discussions,...Read more

Health Management

Novelty-vs-legacy

2021 19 Mar

Innovations of today are the legacy of tomorrow The COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly every aspect of life and work. One of the its consequences has been the acceleration in numerous processes with innovative approaches to be able to face the cataclysmic rise in resource requirements for critically ill patients. Some examples are the emergence...Read more

Executive Health Management

Saving-babies-lives-reducing-stillbirth

2021 05 May

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Executive Health Management

Covid-19-masterclass-from-diagnosis-to-post-covid-follow-up

2021 09 Mar

Speakers Prof. Roberta Polverosi Dr. Diana Penha Prof  Paolo Spagnolo Find Affidea On Social Media Read more

Decision Support

Molecular-tests-are-pivotal-in-combating-the-covid-19-pandemic

2020 28 Oct

The central laboratory of the Niels-Stensen-Kliniken group in Osnabrück wasted no time in setting up its own test facilities for the molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2. We spoke with Michael Erren, MD, Head of the Institute for Laboratory Medicine about his strategy and the importance of diagnostic molecular testing in fighting the pandemic....Read more

Health Management

New-care-delivery

2020 22 Oct

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an accelerator for a profound paradigmatic shift that started several years ago, from a hospital-centred and centralised acute care system towards a patient-centred and distributed network of multiple actors playing new roles. Autonomy of patients is leveraged, telemedicine and telemonitoring is increasingly used by...Read more

Executive Health Management

Siemens-healthineers-launches-rapid-antigen-test-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2

2020 14 Oct

Not for publication in the USA The CLINITEST Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Test helps identify infected individuals in 15 minutes so they can isolate sooner and avoid spreading COVID-19 Easy-to-use test, which doesn't require specialized laboratory personnel or instruments, offers flexibility to test in locations that benefit from immediate...Read more

Executive Health Management

16th-annual-personalised-medicine-conference

2022 19 May

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ICU Management

Esa-will-become-esaic

2020 30 Jun

We are proud to announce that, as of 1 October 2020, the European Society of Anaesthesiology will officially become the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care . The ESAIC has a proven record of intensive care medicine as a part of our activities, education, examination and research, and it is a significant speciality in our community....Read more

ICU Management

Dod-to-fund-a-clinical-trial-of-covid-19-treatment-with-extheras-seraph-100-blood-filter

2020 09 Jun

After encouraging preliminary results in the treatment of critically-ill COVID-19 patients at a military hospital in the United States and fourteen other hospitals in Europe, the Department of Defense has selected the Seraph®100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter (Seraph 100) as one of its main interventions in a pivotal, US-based randomized controlled...Read more

ICU Management

Inside-story-how-ultrasound-is-proving-an-ally-to-a-spanish-hospital-fighting-covid-19

2020 13 Apr

Tomás Villén is on a war footing. His hospital, Universitario Ramón y Cajal in the northern corner of Madrid, has been the epicenter of Spain’s battle against COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Together with Italy, Spain has borne the brunt of the pandemic in Europe. In late March and early April, roughly 300 new patients infected...Read more