healthcare technology Articles
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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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Technological innovations in hospitals: what kind of competitive advantage does adoption lead to?
The authors propose an analytical framework for innovations, based on the resource-advantage theory of competition. Categorisation of innovations depends on how they contribute to a firm's competitive advantage. Essentially, do innovations reduce costs to the organisation, or do they increase the value of its market offerings? They apply this framework to an important segment of the US economy: ...
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A cognitive map to design a performance-oriented RIS-PACS
This paper contributes to the literature regarding the management of healthcare technology, focusing on healthcare information and communication technology (ICT). The research investigates the links between the technological features of ICT and its performance. The theoretical framework is based on cognitive maps. The causal variables and the effect variables have been determined during six ...
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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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Adoption of medical technology by hospitals: a review of innovation attributes and a conceptual model of the resulting service
Innovative medical technologies help to transform health care by empowering physicians and patients with tools that enable faster diagnosis and better treatment of disease. Diagnostic practices and procedural functions in clinics and surgeries are dependent on modern instruments, tools and laboratory equipment. This paper examines innovation attributes in detail and discusses their implications ...
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Technology acquisition decision making revisited: lessons learned in an age of environmental uncertainty
High technology medical innovation remains implicated as one of the most significant driving forces behind the high costs of health care in the USA. In addition, health care organisations are faced with an increasingly complex and uncertain environment. How do these factors interrelate to affect decisions made to acquire high cost medical technology? Data was collected from hospitals in three ...
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Adult ambulatory assistive devices: need for an improved design
The pairing of healthcare practitioners with engineers can produce products to revolutionise patient care. This paper discusses benefits of a novel-design ambulatory assistive device to promote gait efficiency and safety in adult individuals with balance disorders. Posterior-wheeled walkers are commonly used and reported in paediatric research literature to promote increased walking speed and ...
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Critical review on hospital surgical room and mechanical system designs
The design of HVAC systems for surgical operating rooms requires specific guidance for the design engineer in order to insure that thermal comfort and sepsis control are maintained at all times in order to protect the occupants of the room. Operating room ventilation has been through significant design improvements from the beginning of the 20th century until now. Researchers have found that the ...
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MedTech Round Table: The ROI of Surgical Digital Transformation
Caresyntax hosted a roundtable discussion on how digital transformation—specifically the collection of data in the surgical suite—can drive both quality and return on investment (ROI). The participants included a panel of esteemed healthcare professionals in surgery, nursing, investing, sales, healthcare technology, and academics. The following is a summary of the new pathways and ...
By Caresyntax
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Targeting 100! Envisioning the high performance hospital in six climate regions
Cost control, maintaining quality healing and working environments, and more sustainable, energy efficient operations are important topics in healthcare today. This team has developed research directed at much higher performing hospitals - targeting both energy performance and interior environmental quality, for little capital investment in six of the most populous and diverse climate regions in ...
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Managing the full medical equipment lifecycle
Using Medical Equipment Capital Planning Software To Transform Your Equipment Lifecycle. According to a Moody’s Investor’s Service analysis,"Not-for-profit and public healthcare - US: Medians - Regional hospital medians mirror stress seen in national trends", operating margins for hospitals have fallen to an all-time low of 1.6%. Becker’s CFO Report, "A new way of thinking ...
By Accruent
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The information asymmetry and valuation effects on health care technology
The asymmetry in information between the managers of a health care firm and the rest of the market is of particular importance in corporate finance. This paper studies the effect that information asymmetry has on the financial behaviour of for-profit hospitals during the processes of capital structure formation and accumulation of the wealth needed to advance their health technology. The results ...
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Building effective institutional frameworks to support pharmacogenetic research: an international empirical analysis
As science unravels the genetic basis of disease, the opportunities offered by pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics (PGx) for future healthcare become more and more apparent. The objective of this paper is to analyse the current state of PGx research and explore future strategies for more efficient research projects and supportive infrastructures. Based on internet searches and an online survey ...
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Entrepreneur in Residence
Celdara Medical, LLC (CM) is developing a portfolio of preclinical therapeutic assets, platforms, and companies. Each of these has a different development path, and we work with many different modalities, and in many different indications, but everything we do is singularly focused on saving lives and/or improving quality of life. The successful Entrepreneur In Residence will identify one or ...
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The new realities in health care technology assessment in US institutions
Changes in US health care financing have prompted changes in technology assessment in US health care institutions. Emphasis is shifting from capital budgeting proposals in support of revenue enhancement to marginal cost analysis in support of cost-reducing measures. This requires skills related to marginal cost finding and analysis, detailed process and activity mapping, outcome mapping, and ...
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US armed forces medical operations other than war
Expertise in combat healthcare planning, operations and technology translates well into domestic and international humanitarian health relief. The US military medical services have extensive daily activities in public health and medicine that are integrated with civilian organisations, and are related to health research, prevention of disease and healthcare rather than to combat operations. These ...
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Transforming Genomics Through 2022 and Beyond: Spotlight on Brian Longo
A growing number of governments, pharmaceutical companies and research organisations are choosing Lifebit for its secure, cutting-edge platform and visionary team. Lifebit is pleased to spotlight Brian Longo, who has joined as Lifebit’s Executive Strategic Advisor. Responsible for guiding the design and execution of Lifebit’s rapidly scaling operating models and processes, ...
By Lifebit
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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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Standards in Capstone Projects
My standards education began in 1990 when I became the chairman of an ASTM International task group. I was the group leader of R&D for a medical device manufacturer, recognized the need for a specific industry standard and felt that taking a leadership role in developing this standard would be a good professional development activity. The standard was eventually approved and I continue to ...
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UVision360, Inc. – Luminelle DTx Hysteroscopy System
Allison London Brown, CEO of UVision360, Inc. in North Carolina, discusses the Luminelle DTx Hysteroscopy System. Traditionally, these procedures are conducted in a hospital or ambulatory setting. But the Luminelle system is compact and designed to be used in the doctor’s office, and the company is expected to file an application with the FDA that will allow doctors to conduct the first ...
By LUMINELLE
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