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How Can Healthcare Facilities Face Water Issues?


The Answer Comes From Newster Group
The Italian company is ready to launch a new technology for the reuse of sewage waste water and offers a wide range of possibilities thanks to customised products.

When the Tyre Hits the Road: AI in Healthcare


Prognosis is the cornerstone of patient care as it helps practitioners evaluate, decide and initiate effective treatment. However, Prognosis demands fast and detailed results that can only be provided by medical expertise and accurate screening methods; both often not available. This is the ‘big pro...

Decision Making in Healthcare Technology Management


One task of clinical engineering is to make a decision in basic aspects like healthcare technology management. Different stages of medical equipment including acquisition, maintenance, and replacement require decision making. Therefore, various approaches are presented to guide clinical engineers ho...

Overcoming IT Security Challenges Facing Healthcare in Asia Pacific


Security Concerns on the Rise Consumers worldwide are concerned about security In fact it would be more appropriate to say that they are consumed with fear and anxiety about it The Unisys Security Index the only recurring snapshot of security concerns conducted globally stands at out...

Healthcare Facility Trends in the West


Percolate to Asian settings
Healthcare Delivery in the west and Asia has strong parallels, specially in the private sector. A tectonic shift is visible in the Healthcare sector in the US due to various factors. These may resonate with Asian healthcare settings. It is pertinent to look at trends such as Resilient design, Ambula...

High BMI? -Bariatric Surgery is the solution


Bariatric surgery is the surgical method of weight loss. As per Dr Lakshmi, this involves the bypassing of the major portion of the stomach and the intestines. While often confused with liposuction, bariatric surgery is helpful in aiding patients who have developed health complications due to obesit...

Rebooting Healthcare Delivery


It is time we addressed the real issues in healthcare delivery. Every country is struggling with issues like shortage of doctors, decreasing mortality rates from undiagnosed infections, ensuring right emergency medical attention to rural population, etc. We have seen that the ‘I-will-do-it- all’ mod...

Wound Irrigation Solution Developments


Call for Standardisation of Practices and Innovation Efforts
Prevention of surgical site infection (SSI) remains a key focus area for wound irrigation solution manufacturers. However, wound irrigation procedures lack standardisation and guidelines from major medical groups. There have been clamors for standardisation this practice and investing in developing...

Nursing - The backbone of healthcare delivery in the quest for universal access


Nursing professionals play a vital role in all aspects of healthcare, be it nation-wide health campaigns such as polio eradication, mid-wife services and community education or serving the patients at an ill-equipped healthcare facility in rural India. With their commitment and care, nurses have est...

INVEST IN Eco-sustainable Technologies for a safe processing of healthcare waste


Newster Group is an Italy based company that is able to offer the most technologically advanced equipment to solve the problems of the potentially dangerous materials that every day, in every part of the world, are produced in medical facilities and need to be treated. Solid healthcare waste, waste...

Rising Geriatric Patient Populations will Require Innovative Care Models


Enter Remote monitoring and Home Healthcare
The elderly can rarely afford multiple hospital visits due to economic, social and physical constraints. Further, they often have multiple co-morbidities which need a multidisciplinary approach and a comprehensive care plan. This results in prolonged management and multiple hospital visits. Remote p...

EMS Staff Health Problems


Facts and Solutions
Even though Prehospital acute care exists for almost a century, Emergency Medical Services systems (EMS) are considered a relative new addition to the Healthcare systems. Thus, the importance of copying with emergency medical services staff health problems is something that became obvious only the...

Internet and Mobile Applications


A protagonist in healthcare
As human beings are more dependent on technology, the usage of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and mobile applications increases day by day in almost all the fields. In the field of medicine, as the new therapies and devices are launched every now and then, understanding the usage of...

Heart failure, the burden of the current plague!


In this century Heart Failure (HF) is reaching such a spread that it can be defined as a pandemic disease, just like a plague. The prevalence of HF will increase to 3.5 per cent (2030) in the USA with an increase of health system costs to US$77.7 billion (2030). We should change health policies for...

A Natural Compound from wild ginger exhibits significant anticancer activity against various cancer types


1'S-1'-Acetoxychavicol Acetate (ACA), a natural compound from Alpinia conchigera, a wild ginger, exhibits significant anticancer activity against various cancer types. Further research using ACA in vitro and in vivo has allowed an understanding on the underlying mechanism of action and revealed ACA’...
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