Search Tag: digital technologies
2024 16 Sep
The increasing complexity of medication management in hospital settings has led to significant challenges in ensuring patient safety and reducing medication errors. Medication harm remains critical, contributing to preventable adverse events and increased healthcare costs. With more than 50% of patient harm deemed avoidable, digital innovations...Read more
2024 24 May
An overview of the EUropean Federation for CAncer IMages (EUCAIM) initiative to catalyse innovation and adoption of digital technologies in cancer care, and faster and more accurate clinical decision-making, diagnostics, treatment, and predictive medicine for cancer patients. Key Points The EUropean Federation for CAncer IMages...Read more
2024 24 May
An overview of the EUropean Federation for CAncer IMages (EUCAIM) initiative to catalyse innovation and adoption of digital technologies in cancer care, and faster and more accurate clinical decision-making, diagnostics, treatment, and predictive medicine for cancer patients. Key Points The EUropean Federation for CAncer IMages...Read more
2022 18 Oct
A scoping review was recently undertaken to evaluate the skills that nurses need mastering to help them cope better with the exponential use of digital technologies in healthcare. Within this scoping review, the researchers included literature published within a 10-year span, outlining the emerging skills and attitudes nurses are required to...Read more
2022 15 Jun
As in many sectors, the COVID crisis has substantially changed the way of working, with an increasing need for digital solutions to guaranty continuity of services. The same applies for the medical domain. During the pandemic, clinicians maintained the link with patients, conducting remote consultations, but raising a huge concern with...Read more
2022 15 Jun
As in many sectors, the COVID crisis has substantially changed the way of working, with an increasing need for digital solutions to guaranty continuity of services. The same applies for the medical domain. During the pandemic, clinicians maintained the link with patients, conducting remote consultations, but raising a huge concern with...Read more
2022 11 Mar
Giving the keynote address at ViVE , a new health information technology event that took place from March 6-9, 2022, Philips CEO Frans van Houten made the case for the faster adoption of digital technologies to improve value in healthcare and tackle the most pressing challenges post-COVID. “We all recognize that healthcare is faced with,...Read more
2020 22 Oct
A new research identifies three technology areas that healthcare leaders see as the most important now and in the nearest future. You might also like: A Snapshot of Imaging Technology: Exciting Developments and When to Expect Them Center for Connected Medicine and KLAS Research have released their Top of Mind for...Read more
2020 28 Sep
While capacity in the health system was increased to manage COVID-19 infections, the experience for mental health was very different – services were closed and referrals fell by up to 90%. What are the lessons learnt for managing mental health services in a future pandemic and what is the role of digital technology? Key Points Mental health...Read more
2020 28 Sep
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way healthcare works. HealthManagement.org spoke to Sourabh Pagaria to discuss the future of data and digital technologies as strategic assets for pandemic prevention in future. Key Points There is a need to adopt technological solutions to help extend reach of clinical staff and...Read more
2018 03 Apr
Results of a randomised trial highlight the potential of smartphone applications to help clinicians make decisions at the bedside. In this study, a smartphone app using the phone's camera function performed better than traditional physical examination (known as the Allen test) to assess blood flow in a wrist artery for patients undergoing coronary...Read more
2017 04 Jul
According to Dr Jeremy Howick and Dr Sian Rees of the Oxford Empathy Programme, existing digital technologies need to be exploited to enable a paradigm shift in current healthcare delivery that focuses on tests, treatments and targets as opposed to the therapeutic benefits of empathy. The article is published in the Journal of the Royal Society of...Read more