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Issue 54 | 2021
- Foreword
- Healthcare Management
- Medical Sciences
- Technology, Equipment & Devices
- Facilities & Operations Management
- Information Technology
- Advertorials
Issue 54
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Telehealth
Driving the future of digital health
Technological advancements and the advent of modern care delivery models have in a way narrowed down the gap between physical and virtual healthcare environments Since the COVID public health emergency has increased the utilisation of technology to safely access and deliver healthcare
PANDEMIC PIVOTS MIND 'n' MATTER
The pandemic has affected our lives in multifarious ways that we are still trying to ascertain still trying to bounce back from and ways that have left us wondering how we can transform our society for the better
Patient-centricity
The foundation of building a sustainable healthcare access ecosystem in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asias healthcare landscape has irrevocably changed Due to the demographic shifts the region has been experiencing such as ageing populations and the rise in noncommunicable diseases NCDs governments and healthcare stakeholders must now reassess healthcare expenditure and reforms to not only improve health ecosystems in terms of equitabl...
BEHAVIOURAL HEALTHCARE
In a country like India where there is no scarcity of human resources material supplies and even though infrastructure is getting developed and impacted positively healthcare still remains a matter of concern
BENEFITS OF NATURAL IMMUNITY FROM COVID MUST BE CREDITED
In all the discussions regarding vaccinationto have one or two or nonetheres a critical component missing our innate human capacity to heal ourselves our natural immunity
Cardiac Transplantation in the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Population
Heart transplantation has become an effective therapy for patients with end stage heart failure The success rate has now been translated to a median survival of close to eleven years Considering patients with end stage heart failure have a mortality that is close to per cent at one year this is a fabulous achievement from science and medicine
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND TECHNIQUES
Unveiling new possibilities in the treatment of atrial fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation AF is a growing epidemic that affects over million people in the Asia Pacific alone This number is only expected to increase reaching as high as million by due to ageing populations and increased incidence of lifestylerelated risk factors such as obesity physical inactivity and hypertension
Ultraviolet Light Disinfection Systems
For operating room treatments
Germicidal ultraviolet light disinfection contributes to reducing bacterial transmission and surgical site infections Treatment may reduce Coronavirus disease
KEEP CALM AND TELECONNECT
The Covid pandemic has on one hand increased patient hesitancy towards physically visiting a health care facility and on the other increased the need for healthcare support The field of telemedicine in which clinicians use remote evaluation and monitoring to diagnose and treat patients has leapfrogged in the last two years
HEALTHCARE FROM SPACE, DOWN TO EARTH!
NASA to send humans to the moon once again but this time we will stay This media release says it all This will be a forerunner to the manned mission to Mars With individuals already having gone into space in the last years and space tourism having started extraterrestrial healthcare is now a reality
TELEHEALTH - The next frontier of virtual care
In a few short months during the initial periods of COVID telehealth went from almost nonexistent to boom and has begun to decline towards a yet undetermined state of normalcy At its height telehealth was projected to transform what was an estimated US billion in total annual revenue to a projected US billion in US healthcare spending post COVID
2030 VISION
Looking toward the future of interoperability
These enduring thoughts are pondered by decisionmakers in the healthcare world where organisations and providers strive every day to work towards a solution to these nuanced and complex questions
