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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."

Tobacco Use and Cancer: A Stealthy Pandemic


The toll of tobacco use on global morbidity and mortality is so staggering that it becomes difficult to comprehend outside the context of a pandemic.

Hospital Accreditation in India - Standardising healthcare


"Market forces, such as medical tourism, insurance and corporate sector have accelerated the demand for quality in healthcare services. As a result, there is a growing demand from consumers for better healthcare as the lack of quality assurance mechanisms limits their access to appropriate health se...

Asian Medical Device Markets - Emerging Regulations


The growing importance of medical device regulations in the healthcare industry in Asia is reflected in the recent regulatory moves initiated by the governments of a few countries in the region.

Global Health Monitoring Platform Service


Success and Failure in the Sponsor-Vendor Partnership
“A multitude of remote care solutions have been around for quite some time. Still, a true and adaptable service that could openly utilize, integrate and manage different vendor’s telemedicine devices and applications did not exist in the area, until today. The GHMP enables different telemedicine sol...

Psychosocially Supportive Design As a theory and model to promote health


Psychosocially supportive design, as theory and a model, presents a new paradigm for health promulgation by design within the physical environment generally and, in particular, within healthcare facilities.
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