How data fusion will transform tomorrow’s operating rooms
Print Issue - Aug'14
Imagine driving to an appointment at night without the benefit of streetlights, signs, people who can help, or even a windshield. All you have...
An app a day: Enabling the digital doctor
Print Issue - Aug'14
By fusing innovative digital solutions with existing healthcare knowledge, communications and high-tech companies and the health industry are developing cost-effective new ways to engage...
Building a low-cost system
Print Issue - Aug'14
As Lord Nigel Crisp points out, there has often been a regrettable tendency among emerging health economies to copy some of the least effective...
Running smoothly: Fast and effective joint replacements
Print Issue - Aug'14
According to the Singapore Ministry of Health, the number of knee and hip replacement surgeries in the country totaled 2,641 and 647, respectively, for...
CLOUD SERVICES RAISE THE BAR ON PATIENT CARE
Hospitals Steward Health Care Print Issue - Feb'14
Upgraded, cloud-based IT enables Steward Health Care to improve collaboration and raise the bar on patient care.
Formed in 2010, Steward Health Care is the...
SILVER SURFERS ARE CATCHING THE E-HEALTH WAVE – Digital has no age limit
Companies ACCENTURE Print Issue - Feb'14
How Medicare Plans can Attract and Engage the Aging Population Through Digital ChannelsWith 10,000 people turning 65 daily in the United States over the...
Making HEALTHCARE More TRANSPARENT
Companies ACCENTURE Print Issue - Feb'14
One of the most significant topics of this year’s HIMSS 14 Conference is transparency of patient data.
Far from endangering data privacy and safety,...
OPENING A 3-D WINDOW
Companies Siemens Healthineers Print Issue - Feb'14
Thanks to a new technology that rapidly, robustly and automatically integrates real-time ultrasound images with previously-acquired 3-D computed tomography images, doctors can see inside...
Municipalities Adopt Home Health Care Solution, Reduce Rehabilitation Costs
Print Issue - Feb'14
Welfare Denmark is addressing the health care challenges—rising costs and aging populations—that municipalities around the world face. It developed Virtual Rehabilitation, an interactive platform...
Improving Quality and Safety in Emergency Care – ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL
Hospitals ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL Print Issue - Feb'14
A $56.3 million redevelopment began in 2005 on the RMH Emergency Department. The project, completed in October 2009, has significantly expanded ED capacity to...
