Search Tag: healthcare system
2024 11 Sep
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach reiterates willingness for dialogue at the Hospital Summit – "We take every suggestion and criticism seriously" Berlin/Bad Saarow, 11 September 2024. No major surprises, but a few concessions and the promise to seek dialogue with all parties involved regarding the hospital reform. "It’s this latter...Read more
2024 06 May
Steward Health Care (“the Company”), a national fully integrated value-based healthcare system and the largest physician-led hospital operator in the United States, announced that it has commenced an in-court restructuring process through the filing of voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy...Read more
2024 26 Jan
NewYork-Presbyterian is among the first hospitals in the nation to be awarded a Health Care Equity Certification by The Joint Commission for its work to address and improve health care equity across the healthcare system. To receive the certification, NewYork-Presbyterian was required to produce comprehensive reports and data on its efforts to...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
2022 05 Dec
Researchers at RMIT University and Bolton Clarke Research Institute have a new innovation – a thermal imaging tool to screen for chronic wounds. In Australia, chronic wounds impact nearly half a million, affecting their quality of life and costing the healthcare system up to around $3 billion annually. While thermal imaging has been considered...Read more
2022 20 Sep
Newly created role will drive transformative distribution and growth for Sesame's healthcare provider marketplace Sesame , the company building a radically new healthcare system for uninsured and underserved Americans by directly connecting them to high-quality physicians at half the price named David Deane its first Chief Revenue Officer. ...Read more
2021 21 Dec
Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) and Cerner Corporation today jointly announced an agreement for Oracle to acquire Cerner through an all-cash tender offer for $95.00 per share, or approximately $28.3 billion in equity value. Cerner is a leading provider of digital information systems used within hospitals and health systems to enable medical professionals...Read more
2021 03 Nov
The Hague, The Netherlands, November 2nd, 2021 As part of its strategic vision to further expand its business model towards outpatient care services, Affidea, the largest European provider of diagnostic imaging, outpatient and cancer care services has today announced acquisitions of two reputed operators in Spain and Northern Ireland, adding...Read more
2021 20 Oct
On the Way to the Prevention Age It is time to rethink the healthcare system from the principle of digital prevention. Value creation in healthcare should not be geared to diseases, but to prevention. Prevention should be the priority. Only in this way, we achieve crony health , digital sovereignty and sufficient success for all....Read more
2021 12 Jul
Singapore is world-renowned for being a unique and technologically advanced hub, and has proved to be one of the global leaders in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. HealthManagement.org talks with Associate Professor Wong Hon Tym, Clinical Director at the Centre for Healthcare Innovation, about the pandemic-driven progress in Singapore’s healthcare....Read more
2021 06 Jul
COVID-19 has not just impacted the world at large, but also it has also changed the DNA of our healthcare workplaces in many ways. Leaders must change and adapt communication and management techniques to lead effectively in this new era. HealthManagement offers healthcare leaders a few takeaways to consider in your newly transformed role. If...Read more
2021 06 Jul
Ransomware attacks against healthcare organisations have jumped about 45% since early November, following an alarming 71% increase in October 2020, making healthcare the number one target of ransomware attacks that month. Fending off these attacks can be incredibly difficult, but it’s not impossible. HealthManagement offers several best practices...Read more
2021 06 Jul
Ransomware attacks against healthcare organisations have jumped about 45% since early November, following an alarming 71% increase in October 2020, making healthcare the number one target of ransomware attacks that month. Fending off these attacks can be incredibly difficult, but it’s not impossible. HealthManagement offers several best practices...Read more
2021 28 Jun
Ethics and human rights must be a part of the design, deployment, and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the delivery of healthcare, according to the World Health Organisation’s first global report on AI in health. The WHO report, Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health , was released June 28th, and is the result of...Read more
2021 21 Jun
Last summer, OpenAI launched GPT-3, a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence contextual language model that promised computers would soon be able to write poetry, news articles, and programming code. Sadly, it was quickly found to be foulmouthed and toxic. OpenAI researchers say they’ve found a fix to curtail GPT-3’s toxic text by feeding the...Read more
2021 14 Jun
In this space I will explore monthly topics, from concepts to technologies, related to the necessary steps to build Digital Healthcare Systems. For this month, I have invited Mr Giorgio Cangioli to co-author a brief article on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), as hospitals and their interconnections are a critical asset and next...Read more
2021 01 Jun
Long COVID patients suffer from autonomic dysfunction with persistent long-term symptoms. CNSystems’ non-invasive technology significantly contributes to a well-founded cardiovascular diagnosis of COVID-19 survivors and enables a quick check of treatment efficacy. Key Points Many patients who survive acute COVID-19 infection suffer...Read more