patient data Articles
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A proposal for a centralised patient record database: the need to identify patient data elements to measure costs, clinical outcomes and benchmarking
Although health care industry benchmarking is a feasible and worthwhile objective, the lack of consistent and accessible data makes it extremely difficult to do any reasonable comparisons. Therefore, this paper concentrates on the first phase of research pertaining to the identification of data measures and information requirements solely. We conclude with an investigation into whether the ...
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Applying cluster analysis to build a patient-centric healthcare service strategy for elderly patients
Cluster analysis can be viewed as a cornerstone for customer-centred services since it contributes to classification and segmentation of customers. The proposed six-step approach is based on a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) perspective and hence enables both patient segmentation by cluster analysis and development of customised services. The six steps are selection, preprocessing, ...
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How eCOA Improves Patient Experience and Data Quality
With the rising demand for improving patient safety in clinical trials, the adoption of patient-centric solutions is considered the best route to enhance data accuracy and experience automated workflows. This is where eCOA comes into play. In this blog post, we will find out how electronic clinical outcome assessments are helping the clinical trials industry handle the ever-growing list of ...
By Clinion
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Project - T-Pin Case Registry
We continue to assess the outcomes of T-Pin cases in the orthopaedic surgery community. We are seeking qualified surgeons to collect outcome data for patients whose fractures have been treated with the T-Pin System. Subjetive and objective assessment of factors such as patient selection factors, intraoperative observations and clinical pearls, and postoperative assessment will be ...
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CMS Grants Transitional Pass-Through (TPT) Payment for Carlsmed`s aprevo® Personalized Interbody Devices
CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carlsmed announced today that the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has granted aprevo® a Transitional Pass-Through (TPT) payment as part of the quarterly update of the 2021 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System. The aprevo® Personalized Interbody Devices were the only devices to receive TPT status in this update. The ...
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Multiple stimulation parameters influence efficacy of deep brain stimulation in parkinsonian mice
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is used to treat multiple neuropsychiatric disorders, including Parkinson’s disease (PD). Despite widespread clinical use, its therapeutic mechanisms are unknown. Here, we developed a mouse model of subthalamic nucleus (STN) DBS for PD, to permit investigation using cell type–specific tools available in mice. We found that electrical STN DBS relieved ...
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Pilot Validation of a New Wireless Patch System as an Ambulatory, Noninvasive Tool That Measures Gut Myoelectrical Signals: Physiologic and Disease Correlations
Abstract Background and aims: Limited means exist to assess gastrointestinal activity in a noninvasive, objective way that is highly predictive of underlying motility disorders. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the feasibility of recording myoelectric gastrointestinal activity by cutaneous patches and to correlate myoelectric signals with gastrointestinal function in various clinical ...
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Cyber security challenges in hospitals
"In 15years, and across our fleet of more than 500 installed machines, we have had no viral infections," says Eric Lechopier, Director of Software Developmentat ISIS. This is a record that we can proudly announce at a time when cyber attacks are skyrocketing in hospitals. We do not have the solution to these attacks and we cannot guarantee that our customers will not be attacked. What we can do ...
By ISIS S.A.S
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New Data Says - Move to mild After the 1st ESI Fails
Injections falling short? Advanced IPM practices are moving beyond epidural steroid injections (ESIs) to offer the gold standard of care for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) patients. Review the new data where study researchers compared the medical records of participants who had received either just one or no steroid injection prior to the mild® Procedure, to participants who received two or ...
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Extentrac Elite Case - Case study
Clinical Study Report A practice based prospective study of 31 consecutive patients (21 men, 10 women – mean age 57 years) with low back pain with or without radiculopathy. Each patient completed the Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire (Ver.2) and the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS-11) – pre and post treatment. Disability assessment was based upon an absolute percentage point ...
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I)Video Management (VM) for operating theatres: Is there a standard need?
Part 1: Identify the real need Today hospitals, and in particular operating theaters, have become hubs of innovation. There is a real proliferation of solutions, functions and various technologies, with manufacturers, resellers or suppliers offering tailor-made and sometimes scalable solutions. These solutions are often captive and proprietary and do not always allow you to compose your own ...
By ISIS S.A.S
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Carlsmed Raises $30M in Series B Funding to Scale Personalized Spine Surgery
CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carlsmed announced today that it closed an oversubscribed $30M Series B funding round, led by B Capital Group, a global, multi-stage investment firm. Existing investors, U.S. Venture Partners, The Vertical Group, Cove Fund and Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health, also participated in the round. The company plans to use the Series B funds to ramp commercialization of ...
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Comparison study of clinical outcomes between single-site robotic cholecystectomy and single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Summary Background: Multiport laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the standard surgical procedure for symptomatic gallbladder diseases. The latest evolution is single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy (SILC). Single-site robotic cholecystectomy (SSRC) overcomes several limitations of manual SILC. The aim of this study is to present our initial experiences in SSRC and to compare its clinical ...
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Assessment of a urinary TRUS/biomarker-based risk score as inclusion criteria for multiparametric MRI to detect clinically significant prostate cancer
BACKGROUND Non-invasive techniques like urinary biomarkers and multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging (mpMRI) show great promise for the detection of clinically significant prostate cancer (PCa), leading to a reduction of over-diagnosis and over-treatment. Apart from yet to be established diagnostic accuracy is the systematic use of mpMRI challenging due to the high cost of setting up, ...
By MDxHealth
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Delivering a precision medicine programme at scale
The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the disparity between those who succumbed to severe illness while others remained relatively unaffected, underscoring the urgent need to shift the healthcare industry’s focus from a one-size-fits-all approach to more personalised healthcare. Personalised medicine promises to transform healthcare with treatments tailored to a patient’s unique genetic ...
By Lifebit
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What makes decentralisation the future of clinical trials?
With the emergence of COVID-19, Decentralisation of Clinical Trials became necessary to comply with social distancing requirements while carrying out clinical research. Over the past few years, the clinical trial landscape has shifted its focus to patient-centric practices to promote patient engagement. But now as the pandemic is long gone, it is time to reflect on how DCT studies are genuinely ...
By Clinion
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Coronavirus: continued updates in basic research, vaccine development and testing
Researchers have delved further into our understanding of coronavirus, while the race to develop a vaccine continues. New advances in coronavirus understanding New research has put paid to some of the conspiracy theories surrounding coronavirus. A team comprising researchers from both the US, Australia and the UK has analyzed the receptor-binding domain (RBD) and the cleavage site present on ...
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Why open-source AI platforms are the future of patient health tracking in clinical trials
Imagine you’ve just been diagnosed with cancer and you’re enrolled in a clinical trial for a promising new drug. You notice that after chemotherapy you struggle with occasional fatigue. Yet, whenever you visit your doctor every couple of weeks, you feel fine. This is not only a frustrating experience for patients, but it can also compromise the safety data in a clinical trial. The ...
By AiCure
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Sifting Nuggets of Truth out of the AI Hooplah
A panel of experts took a crack at the subject of artificial intelligence to help us sort out how much of a near-term impact the technology could realistically have in healthcare. With the topic of artificial intelligence filling up our news feeds and dinner conversations, it’s almost too easy to get swept up in the hype of it all. This week at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in ...
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Inflammation in Periodontal Disease a Red Flag for Cancer
By not taking care of your teeth there is more on the line than tooth decay and periodontal disease – although that’s bad enough. Practicing good oral hygiene may be lifesaving according to a number of research studies.Studies show a connection between Gum disease and a 63% HIgher Pancreatic Cancer in Men The link between several systemic illnesses including diabetes, heart disease, ...
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