Search Tag: health equity
2024 21 Mar
Dr Marlies Ostermann from Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London presented a tutorial at ISICEM 2024, highlighting the historical disparities and inequalities faced by different sexes in the ICU. These challenges encompass lower ICU admission rates, variations in medical care provision, inadequate personalisation, limited representation...Read more
2024 19 Mar
The HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition highlighted Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a central theme, emphasising its potential to revolutionise healthcare by detecting diseases earlier and improving outcomes. However, alongside excitement about AI's possibilities, concerns were raised by healthcare leaders regarding the potential exacerbation...Read more
2024 19 Mar
The HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition highlighted Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a central theme, emphasising its potential to revolutionise healthcare by detecting diseases earlier and improving outcomes. However, alongside excitement about AI's possibilities, concerns were raised by healthcare leaders regarding the potential exacerbation...Read more
2024 19 Mar
The HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition highlighted Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a central theme, emphasising its potential to revolutionise healthcare by detecting diseases earlier and improving outcomes. However, alongside excitement about AI's possibilities, concerns were raised by healthcare leaders regarding the potential exacerbation...Read more
2024 19 Mar
The HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition highlighted Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a central theme, emphasising its potential to revolutionise healthcare by detecting diseases earlier and improving outcomes. However, alongside excitement about AI's possibilities, concerns were raised by healthcare leaders regarding the potential exacerbation...Read more
2024 01 Mar
Partnership will promote health equity and combat global health care disparities In a significant move toward bolstering diagnostic and medical imaging capabilities in underserved regions across the world, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and RSNA have forged a strategic partnership agreement whose overarching goal is to build...Read more
2024 29 Feb
Hologic, Inc.’s leadership in championing the health of women, their families and their communities continues to expand globally as shown in the company’s new sustainability report titled “Our Commitment Knows No Bounds.” The annual report spotlights how Hologic leverages its financial strength, derived from its innovative medical technologies,...Read more
2024 29 Feb
Hologic, Inc.’s leadership in championing the health of women, their families and their communities continues to expand globally as shown in the company’s new sustainability report titled “Our Commitment Knows No Bounds.” The annual report spotlights how Hologic leverages its financial strength, derived from its innovative medical technologies,...Read more
2024 21 Feb
Statement by Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe. My professional involvement with HIV goes back 30 years, to 1994 when I joined MSF-Belgium working on TB and HIV in Somalia. The world was a very different place; an HIV diagnosis was practically a death sentence, getting tested was a lengthy ordeal and treatment...Read more
2024 16 Feb
In a recent announcement, Dr. Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer at Google, and Monica Bharel, Clinical Lead in Public Health, have been honoured as Public Health Champions by the prestigious Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Karen DeSalvo: Leading the Charge for Health Equity A distinguished alumna of Harvard Chan, Dr....Read more
2023 30 Aug
The global healthcare market is entering a new era of radical growth in preventative, personalised treatments that maximises positive health outcomes and system resilience. At the heart of this opportunity is shifting the site of care – often to home and community settings . Key Points ‘Healthier at home’ solutions include stand-alone...Read more
2023 22 May
Health equity experts, Linda Holer Blount, Brian Vandenberg and Erika Ninoyu joined Julie Khani of Hologic’s Government Affairs team for an insightful webinar exploring how policies can lead to better healthcare outcomes. The speakers highlighted how unfortunate it is that we live in a society where not everyone has the same heath status, and...Read more
2023 28 Mar
Hospitals that invest in community health equity – eliminating disparities in health and the factors that contribute to the exclusion of groups – can boost the financial performance and organisational culture of hospitals. The study, published in NEJM Catalyst, pointed out that “by emphasizing health, not just health care, leaders of these hospitals...Read more
2022 11 Aug
Maria Romano, MSN, NP-C, vice president of health equity and medical informatics at Premise Health, recently was elected to serve as a board member on the Epic Advisory Steering Board dedicated to conversations about the social determinants of health. Social determinants of health are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, work,...Read more