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Effective patient engagement leads hospitals to higher margins & healthy future
Recent Accenture research suggests that hospitals that offer a superior patient experience tend to have 50 percent higher margins than their peers . Hospitals that deliver a superior experience have the opportunity to create happy and healthy patients, as...
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M2M communication resulting in new and exciting possibilities in healthcare
The world appears to have shrunk into a virtual ball. People are getting connected through devices; machines are getting connected; and today, even homes are getting connected. Everything in the world is getting connected. So, what about medical devices?...
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How Hybrid Operating Rooms Benefits Both Patient and Surgeons
 Professor Jacques Marescaux, France, has revolutionized surgery and continues to push the envelope with unprecedented research and training ideas. He believes that hybrid ORs and augmented reality in surgery can improve patient care in the future.
In his recent interview for...
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Automating prescription services in Africa for real-time anonymous drug consumption
The lack of comprehensive data on pharmaceutical consumption in Africa makes it difficult for governments and pharmaceutical companies to gain market intelligence on medicine use. By automating prescription services, mPharma provides patients with faster and surer access to needed...
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Transforming healthcare delivery with insight into the “when” and “why” of readmissions
Healthcare providers are good at managing patients’ medical conditions while they are in the hospital or office, but for patients with chronic health conditions, that is only one piece of the puzzle. What happens while the patient is at...
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Role of Big Data in Middle East’s Emerging Healthcare Systems
The role Big Data could play in the emerging healthcare systems of the Middle East and North Africa.
If a diabetic patient came into hospital complaining of numbness and pain in their toes, a doctor might assume diabetes is the...
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The future of Surgery
Lose a limb or lose a life – this was the worst-case dilemma confronting Georg M., a 47-year-old man from Stuttgart, Germany. His pelvis had become riddled with a rare, malignant tumor – an osteosarcoma – which threatened to...
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