healthcare environment Articles
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Pharmaceutical R&D in an era of managed healthcare: using integrative teams to produce enduring competitive advantage
Medical technology organisations are faced with greater performance pressure in the new managed healthcare environment. In particular, pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) organisations are expected to create new and useful therapeutic treatments with greater resource constraints than ever previously experienced. We explore how pharmaceutical R&D organisations are changing the way they ...
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Identifying sources of resistance to change in healthcare
The continuous introduction of new healthcare technologies, as well as the proliferation of new processes that guarantee better treatment and care of patients, suggests that the pace of the healthcare environment has been accelerating in recent years. Therefore, it is very important to identify and address sources of resistance to change before, during, and after change efforts are made in ...
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Barriers to data sharing in today’s healthcare landscape
In today’s healthcare environment, the general consensus is that the exchange and flow of data is crucial and beneficial to developing better care of the patients. Healthcare information exchanges (HIEs), as an example, have shown to be effective in improving public health, reducing healthcare redundancies, and providing clinical providers with more support tools in their day-to-day work. ...
By Segmed, Inc.
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Fortifying Safety in Healthcare Facilities: Walk-Through Metal Detectors
Fortifying Safety in Healthcare Facilities: Walk-Through Metal Detectors The safety and security of patients, staff, and visitors are paramount in healthcare facilities, and the deployment of walk-through metal detector has emerged as a pivotal strategy in safeguarding these environments. Walk-through metal detectors play a critical role in proactive threat detection, enhancing security ...
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Strategic formation of competitive high technology clusters
This research examines the role of four strategic resources in the competitiveness of high technology clusters: highly qualified manpower, technological infrastructure, knowledge resources (patents and intellectual protection) and capital. More specifically, the research compares the competitiveness of three clusters of the Canadian biotechnology industry: healthcare, agribusiness and ...
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EU normative framework and standards of radiological protection in medicine
This paper examines the normative framework of the European Union (EU) and member states in the field of radioprotection of individuals undergoing medical exposure, in the light of harmonisation on the basis of the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or EURATOM) directives and enforcement at the national level. It discusses to what extent medical standards in radioprotection vary in member ...
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Some examples of micro-devices for biotechnology developed at the Department of Technologies for Life Sciences and Healthcare of the LETI
Biotechnology has been rapidly developing over the last 15 years. Its advantages in many medical and pharmaceutical domains are now obvious. Biotechnological microsystems are now widely encountered in the field of diagnostics, healthcare, life science and environment. This text relates a selection of developments performed at the CEA/LETI, in the Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences. ...
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Enhancing Healthcare Security: The Role of Door Frame Metal Detectors in Hospitals and Clinics
Enhancing Healthcare Security: The Role of Door Frame Metal Detectors in Hospitals and Clinics The safety and security of patients, healthcare professionals, and visitors are paramount in hospitals and clinics. With the evolving landscape of security threats, the implementation of robust security measures is essential to ensure a secure environment conducive to healing and care. Door frame metal ...
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How to reduce diagnostic errors through patient engagement
As patients, we like to think diagnostic errors are rare, but the reality is they are fairly common. According to a recent Medscape poll, one in six physicians reported making diagnostic errors daily. Aside from the ongoing risk to patient health and safety, diagnostic errors also pose a considerable financial threat, with one study suggesting they cost the U.S. economy $750 billion each ...
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The Need for an Expanded Role of Risk Management in Healthcare
The role of risk management in healthcare has come a long way over the years. But as risks to the healthcare industry multiply—both in number and costs—risk management and risk managers need to be at the forefront of the business. If not, healthcare organizations can’t thrive, or potentially even survive. How healthcare risk management has evolved Today’s ...
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UbiBot Products Support Intelligent Hospital and Clinic Operation
Temperature as well as relative humidity can affect the airborne survival of viruses, bacteria and even fungi. As such, environmental control in hospitals is important because disease transmission from the aerosol or airborne infection is possible. Environmental exposure is a common hazard for organisms and throughout this can pass on from one host to another. Factors such as temperature, ...
By UbiBot
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Sterifre Medical Granted EPA Registration For Automated, Point of Care Disinfectant System to Help Combat COVID-19 and Other Healthcare Associated Pathogens
STERIFRE MEDICAL GRANTED EPA REGISTRATION FOR AUTOMATED, POINT OF CARE DISINFECTANT SYSTEM TO HELP COMBAT COVID-19 AND OTHER HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED PATHOGENS The new AURA™ system can help improve safety of healthcare workers and patients by reducing exposure to pathogens and disinfectant chemicals, save time and money, and lessen environmental impact of manual disinfectant wipes ...
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Who was Florence Nightingale?
The person behind the moniker attributed to the wave of new hospitals constructed to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic is a remarkable figure in British history. Born on 12 May 1820, Florence Nightingale, long depicted as a saintly nurse who saved thousands of lives, was a much more complex character than this. In fact, she was a mathematical genius who used her talent to strategise healthcare and ...
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Extra Innings: Kevin Kronmiller’s Story - Case Study
The Problem: When Kevin Kronmiller was 22, he found out he had 5 years to live if he didn't receive a liver transplant. Beating the odds, Kevin made it to 50 before needing a liver transplant. After his surgery, Kevin went into Septic Shock. He found out later from his physicians that he had a 30% chance of survival and even if he did survive, doctors were very concerned about long-term ...
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Using an informing strategy to manage moral legitimacy in healthcare organisations
Healthcare organisations operating within highly institutionalised environments are exposed to very intense isomorphic pressures. These institutional pressures help determine organisational success and survival through the recognition and distribution of legitimacy, which is generally gained through conformity. Moral legitimacy, defined as the ethical judgments made about an organisation's ...
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Managing healthcare technology in quality management framework
Healthcare services available these days deploy high technology to satisfy both internal and external customers by continuously improving various quality parameters. Quality improvement in healthcare services is a complex and multidimensional task. Although various quality management tools are routinely deployed for identifying quality issues in healthcare delivery, there is absence of an ...
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Shoe Sanitizing Stations for Hospitals
During an early 2020 study in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers swabbed multiple surfaces at a healthcare facility to study aerosol and surface distribution. Around 50% of the samples from healthcare workers’ footwear contained genetic material from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In addition, as medical staff walk around the ward, the virus can be tracked all over the ...
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