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Are We Ready to Ship Billions of COVID Vaccines Worldwide?


There’s no denying it. 2020 has been a year of immense difficulty and disruption.Many now look forward to 2021 and the much-anticipated prospect of COVID-19 vaccines as the gateway to global recovery. Naturally as one of the the world’s leading logistics companies, FedEx has an important role to pla...

Flexible Technology


The key to a responsive healthcare offering
Healthcare technology is a vast and rapidly growing sector that enables organisations in the industry to improve virtually all aspects of the healthcare system. There are significant possibilities for continued innovation and optimisation enabled by a wealth of technological capabilities.One of the...

Clinical Risk Assessment Tools


Better Outcome with Oral Anticoagulants
Venous Thrombosis(VT), comprising Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and Pulmonary Embolism (PE), has an incidence of approximately 1 per 1000 annually in adult populations. The risk of recurrence is high. Oral anticoagulants (OACs) play a vital role in the secondary prevention of VT in such patients.

Application of Industrial Statistical Tools in Quantitative Analysis of COVID-19 Pandemic


A Case Study of Upper-Middle-Income Country
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is the recent viral outbreak that influenced the world during late 2019. Coronavirus influences various individuals in various manners. Most contaminated individuals will create minor to modest symptoms and get better without hospitalisation.

The Burden of Bacterial Vaginitis


A Systematic Review
Bacterial Vaginitis (BV) is a common disease that affects between 10 percent to 30 percent of women in developed nations. A common cause of irregular vaginal discharge is BV. BV is not a Sexually Transmitted Infection(STI), but a STI such as chlamydia will increase the risk of having it.

Living in Home Isolation


Role of the Family
The number of COVID-19 infections in Nepal has now crossed 50,000. With this rising infection rate graph, institutional isolation and COVID dedicated hospital wards are filling up. Criteria have been applied to stay in home isolation for those who tested positive for SARS-Cov 2, with no Covid sympto...

Risk Management of Medical Imaging Devices in Hospitals


Risk management is an organized process to identify and manage probable risks [1]. This definition implies four steps for risk management, namely:identification, assessment, control, and monitoring [1,2].In fact, this strategy encompasses numerous procedures to mitigate or eliminate the possible ris...

Azbil’s Pandemic-ready Airflow Control


For hospitals during COVID-19
Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems play an important role in preventing the spread of diseases via airborne or aerosol-based transmission. This article introduces an airflow control method and Azbil’s venturi airflow control valves that have been used in hospitals

COVID-19 - Is it hinting towards multi organ failure?


The deadly malady Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) out broke in Wuhan, China. COVID-19 is characterised by symptoms like fever, dry cough, fatigue and sore throat. COVID-19 gained its popularity with the significant morbidity and mortality risk it is posing. Apart from being humanity killer

Strategies for Early Detection of Lung Cancer


Reducing mortality in Taiwan
Lung cancer is still a worldwide leading cause of cancer death, even in this era of low-dose CT for lung cancer screening. Lung cancer mortality rate is the highest among the top ten cancers in Taiwan. There is an increasing trend in non-smoking related lung cancer in Taiwan, especially in middle-ag...

The Growth of Private Health Insurance in Asia


Transforming the Patient-Provider-Payer Triad
The growth of the Asian private health insurance market is one of the most striking developments in the global healthcare ecosystem, and it is transforming the fundamental relationship between patients, providers, and insurers in many Asian countries. This development occurs against the backdrop of...

Blockchain - Exploring its potential for Malaysian Healthcare


Healthcare organisations have consistently improved their healthcare delivery through the adoption of Information Technology (IT). The digital transformation in healthcare through the evolution of Electronic Medical Record Systems (EMRs) and Electronic Health Record Systems

The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)


Need to find therapeutic solution
The Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), which exploded from Wuhan, China has now travelled to whole world. The first case of COVID-19 was reported in the month of December 2019(WHO Coronavirus), and because of its rapid spread, World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Novel Coronavirus Dis...

The Availability and Access to Mental Health Services for Airline Pilots


Important for Aviation Safety
After the Germanwings pilot murder-suicide crash in the French Alps on 24 March 2015, there has been concern for individual pilot’s mental health (Vuorio et al., 2015, Germawings Accident Investigation 2016). Over a 20-year period, estimates of aircraft-assisted suicides in the United States (1993–2...

Case-Mix Planning Problem and Resource Allocation in Hospitals


Issues and Challenges
Hospitals all around the world are facing increasing pressure in cost reduction. Besides, shortages of physicians, nurses and other hospital resources further magnify the problem. Such issues can be solved by the efficient and effective allocation and utilisation of the available resources and the d...
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