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2021 13 May
SNOQUALMIE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Spacelabs Healthcare ®, a division of OSI Systems, Inc. (the “Company” or “OSI Systems”), and Masimo today announced that they have extended their partnership in patient monitoring to integrate SET® pulse oximetry, NomoLine® capnography, rainbow SET® Pulse CO-Oximetry, SedLine® brain function monitoring, and...Read more
2018 21 Aug
The 27th EAHM Congress looks at providing healthcare to a changing population and adapting to digitisation With the 27th European Association of Hospital Managers (EAHM) Congress being held in Cascais, Lisbon at the end of September, HealthManagement interviews Alexandre Lourenço, President of hosting organisation, the Portuguese Association...Read more
2016 27 Sep
In contemporary healthcare, touch— contact between a doctor’s hand and a patient—appears to be on its way out. The expanding role of CT and MRI imaging is decreasing reliance on touch as a way of making diagnoses. Pressures to move patients through the system more quickly leave health professionals with fewer opportunities to make contact....Read more
2016 30 May
Equitable Healthcare With increased emphasis on financial constraint in healthcare, resource allocation discussions are heard more commonly in clinical departments. As agents of the patient, clinicians are faced with struggles to ensure that individual patients can receive costly treatments, despite growing demands for healthcare throughout society....Read more
2016 21 Oct
The Congress is organised by the three societies: the European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP), the European Society for Paediatric Research (ESPR) and the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC). In addition, for EAPS 2016, we are very happy that six other important European paediatric societies have accepted our invitation...Read more
2016 27 Apr
Poland’s National Centre for Quality Assessment in Healthcare (NCQA) has revised its accreditation standards for healthcare facilities to include Europe’s first official recommendation that antimicrobial copper touch surfaces are incorporated as an infection prevention and control measure. Poland’s Hospital Accreditation Programme has existed...Read more
2015 26 Oct
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) announced it has appointed to Baxter’s Board of Directors Michael F. Mahoney, president and chief executive officer of Boston Scientific Corporation. Mahoney will serve on Baxter’s corporate governance and compensation committees. “Mike’s significant knowledge of the global medical products business and his track...Read more
2015 26 Oct
CareFusion, a BD company, announced its Vital Signs anesthesia delivery and patient monitoring business has entered into an exclusive agreement with AAM Healthcare to distribute its APA™ video laryngoscope in the U.S. and 12 other countries. The APA™ video laryngoscope is a handheld, portable device to aid in tracheal intubation. Inspired and designed...Read more
2015 18 Jul
A hospital in Hamilton, ON Canada has initiated a novel 'three wishes programme" in an effort to making dying in an ICU a bit less impersonal. Dr. Deborah Cook, a professor of medicine at McMaster University and an ICU physician at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton explains that humanising the environment when somebody is dying can be a real challenge...Read more
2015 13 Jul
Masimo Addresses the Inaccurate and Misleading Claims that Covidien Continues to Make Regarding Nellcor Pulse Oximetry Performance Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI), the inventor of measure-through motion and low perfusion pulse oximetry, has renewed its $1,000,000 (USD) performance guarantee that Masimo SET® Pulse Oximetry will outperform all Nellcor (part...Read more
2015 14 Mar
A novel, multi-method approach presented in the journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics highlights the need of defining and ensuring respectful care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The researchers at John Hopkins believe that loss of dignity and lack of respectful treatment are preventable harms in healthcare. "Having quantitative measures of...Read more
2014 18 Oct
More than half of the world’s population already live in cities, and the the proportion is predicted to grow to 70% by 2050. Infrastructure planning is essential for cities to manage this growth. However, access to information that can assist cities to plan healthcare is not uniformly available across high-, middle- and low-income countries. In a...Read more
2014 15 May
Telemedicine still surrounded by confusion, industry organisations aim to clarify matters The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the American Telemedicine Association have drafted policies and guidelines aimed at clarifying the confusion which currently surrounds telemedicine. This demonstrates the challenge many healthcare providers...Read more