Global Hospital & Healthcare Management

We often marvel at the impact increasingly sophisticated technology has had on medical procedures, pushing the boundaries and turning the improbable into possible. And for each technological innovatio...

Many people believe that getting cancer is purely down to genes. And more than a quarter of people recently surveyed in the UK put it down to fate. While the idea of cancer scares most of us, it seems...

From the TV show, “House”, the irascible but brilliant Doctor House tells a class of med students that they will make mistakes and they will lose lives and that they better get used to ...

Telehealth is now being mainstreamed by PCTs across the country in order to prevent avoidable hospital admissions to hospital and monitor long-term needs within the home. The increasingly widesprea...

There has been a growing understanding of the microbial threats that exist in laboratory & medical practice as of today. Simultaneously these threatening trends have been accompanied by a tremend...

Imagine a medical laboratory performing a genetic test to detect metastasis from blood in a breast cancer patient. Shrink this laboratory down to an area of 1x1cm² and you have a lab-on-chip. Th...

Finland is a Nordic country with a population of 5.3 million inhabitants. The country is famous for a good system for healthcare and social welfare, which is based on extensive public responsibility ...

Nanotechnology is the creation of useful, functional materials, devices, and systems through controlling and manipulating matter at the molecular level. It is a multidisciplinary field undergoing exp...

The “Darwinian Model” is alive and well.  Significant risks and opportunities are driving businesses to shed the inefficiencies of the past or go the way of the dinosaur.  This ...

Everyone is talking about “living green” – taking whatever steps we can as individuals to use less energy and use it more efficiently. That idea of allocating resources and optimiz...

During the last years there has been a rapid development concerning new techniques for the use of various cardiac imaging methods. Besides the well-known cardiac ultrasound methods there are now more...

Cancer has long struck fear in the minds of patients and their families. Through much of human history, the scourge of cancer most often led to death. But thanks to many factors, a large number of ca...

While consumer directed healthcare (CDH) is receiving wide-spread attention from the media, the scope is often on electronic medical record adoption or health savings accounts. While these are import...

More than 17.5 million electrosurgical procedures are performed annually in the United States, in a variety of surgical fields. Yet, electrosurgical methods have changed little in the last 80 years....

Use of Information Technology in Healthcare,especially Electronic Health Records (EHRs),can potentially improve healthcare. However,worldwide the usage of EHRs is limited and studies in developed co...