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Ensuring patient Safety


What regulation can do
Regulator responding to serious safety concerns by investigating incidents and reporting on them independently reassures the public that root cases have been identified and action will be taken.

Linking Care


EHRs support improved chronic disease management
Bringing together services and information around specific patient needs is the foundation for shared care models and essential to effective, proactive, chronic disease management. Key to this collaborative approach is an Electronic Health Record (EHR) that provides authorised access to patient info...

Personal Health Records in Primary Care


Challenges and opportunities
Personal health records are important in improving the quality and patient-centeredness of care and, are an essential step to create an effective medical home. However, the informatics need of the primary care setting creates challenges to integrate a PHR into daily practice and also generate new op...

Healthcare Information Technology


The similar and the different around the World
Research conducted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS, and its market research subsidiary HIMSS Analytics, suggests that the benefits of information technology and management systems transcend from local healthcare needs to global settings.

Business Case for Correct Diagnoses and Informed Consumers: A case study


Providing employees with education in wellness enables them to become better-informed consumers. This in turn helps caregivers provide better healthcare.

HS-PROD - Aiding Healthcare Policy Reforms


Health Sector Policy Reform Option Database (HS-PROD) is a database for health sector reforms created by the Government of India. Its aim is to share reform know-how to tackle common management problems in the health sector.

Integrating IT Leadership into the Healthcare Delivery Setting


IT Leadership should look at optimising processes by providing automation. For this, the implications of implementing IT to all the units of the organisation must be considered by the Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Minimal Invasive Surgery - In a Safe Operating Room Environment


Because of the evolution and the demand for minimally invasive surgery it has now taken a forefront in the surgical world. In light of this fact and that laparoscopic simulation is now available for the surgeon and nursing staff to practice these procedures, any operating suite can safely and effici...

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare


Enhancing healthcare safety and quality
The Commission has been created for five years by the Australian, State and Territory Governments to make sustainable improvements to Australian healthcare safety and quality and to fulfil the responsibilities outlined for it by Health Ministers.

Public Hospital Productivity: A Clinician’s view


Simulation of particulate processes
Clinicians are used as service deliverers and their input into the structure of the service, the management of it and the appropriate development of new technological developments are largely ignored.

Meeting the Demands of Cold Chain Management in Asia


In developing markets, where demand for devices is outstripping the government’s ability to monitor procurement and use, there are inevitable shortfalls in appropriate product management

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation


Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a new non-invasive method that provides a potential non-invasive therapy for many functional brain disorders.

Biomarkers in Heart Failure


Biomarkers are deeply incorporated into up-to-dated clinical guidelines for heart failure. There is evidence regarding the limiting role of biomarker as predictive tool in heart failure management. In fact, multiple biomarker strategy appears to be much more promising than those established on singl...

Pathology's Workforce Crisis - Impact on acute healthcare in Australasia


"There is a real risk that overworked, tired pathologists are more likely to make misdiagnoses. While there are very good quality systems in place to try to prevent this, mistakes in such environments are much more likely."

Preventive Cardiology for Asian Americans


"There is need for more ethnic specific data in order to quantify, qualify, and improve on the cardiovascular status of Asian Americans."
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