patient flow Articles
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Negative competition steering patient flow in a public–private healthcare co–opetition setting – a Finnish case
Healthcare services are produced jointly by public and private service providers. Simultaneously they are each others' competitors, thus operating in a co–opetition setting. Co–operation enables producing healthcare services efficiently. However, the public service providers have to operate on budget funds providing services to everyone, while private service providers skim the shared patient ...
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Transforming Rapid Transfusion in Hemorrhagic Shock - Case Study
As an emergency physician, I routinely have to make quick decisions that can impact the direction and quality of care for my patients. With the current high nursing turnover and short-staffing on many shifts, these decisions are even more important, as they can also positively or negatively impact provider stress and patient flow. Streamlined care for critical patients is extremely helpful to ...
By 410 Medical
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Inside the Transition of Flow Based Patient Care
The nuclear cardiology department at Ochsner Health System, a New Orleans-based multi- hospital organization with facilities peppered throughout southern Louisiana, is revising its cardiac imaging model and implementing a flow-based imaging program. Leveraging the Positron Attrius cardiac PET system, the new model is characterized by highly accurate patient diagnosis and treatment ...
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EluNIR First-in-Patient Implantation- Case Study
Background This paper outlines the first in-patient implantation of the EluNIR™ ridaforolimus eluting elastomeric stent (Medinol Ltd.). This complex case involved a patient with a flow-limiting lesion in a native coronary artery post bypass surgery. The new EluNIR stent system includes a stent with a low metal footprint which comprises struts of variable width: ultra-narrow struts having ...
By Medinol
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EluNIR DES in a Challenging Case - Case Study
Background: This paper describes a challenging case of implantation of the EluNIR™ Ridaforolimus eluting elastomeric stent (Medinol Ltd.). This complex case involved a patient with a flow-limiting lesion in a native coronary artery post bypass surgery. The new EluNIR stent system includes a stent with a low metal footprint that comprises struts of variable width: ultra-narrow struts ...
By Medinol
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Q&A: The value of patient engagement technology, insights from Dr. Michael Bradley
With a mission to provide the best patient experience in the industry, the team at Ortho Rhode Island (ORI) is always seeking new ways to enhance their services, so patients not only have confidence that they will have the best outcomes, they can tell that their experience with ORI matters too. In our interview with Dr. Michael Bradley, CEO and President at Ortho Rhode Island, he shares his ...
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HIT Weekly Series Episode 6 - Conclusions
Today, HIT remains a critical clinical context in many hospital settings, when heparin, mainly unfractionated, is used in cardiology, intensive care units, or ECC, including CPB and increasingly ECMO. This is a paradoxal disease, as this anticoagulant drug can provoke thrombocytopenia associated with thrombosis in affected patients. Detecting the risk of HIT is mandatory, as it requires an ...
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VX400M: vaccination campaign safe from potentially infected aerosol
Airsafe medical aerosol high-flow suction system protect patients and healthcare operators in each phase of Covid-19 pandemic. It is in everyday situations that aerosol suction systems prove to be fundamental to keep spread of infection under control. Daily situations like vaccination: central stage in the fight against pandemic. As a fact, healthcare operators take the risk of exposure every ...
By Airsafe
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Implementing lean in surgery - lessons and implications
The principles of lean production originating from the Toyota production system has spread from manufacturing to healthcare. Needless to say, this raises concern whether such principles are actually applicable where the product are humans in need of medical care and what are the consequences for the medical staff. The literature on lean does not suggest that lean should not be applicable in ...
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Functional Electrographic Flow Patterns in Patients with Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Predict Outcome of Catheter Ablation
Aims: Electrographic flow (EGF) mapping is a method to detect action potential sources within the atria. In a double-blinded retrospective study we evaluated whether sources detected by EGF are related to procedural outcome. Methods: EGF maps were retrospectively generated using the Ablamap® software from unipolar data recorded with a 64-pole basket catheter from patients who previously ...
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VCs infuse $215M into Sanofi-backed wearable subcutaneous drug delivery player Enable Injections
Sanofi-backed Enable Injections has gone big with its series C round. Three years after Sanofi led its series B, Enable Injections has raised a $215 million round to fund work on subcutaneous drug delivery system enFuse. Enable Injections’ device consists of a wearable delivery disc and a system for transferring the drug from its original vessel. Users put the disc in the transfer ...
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The latest developments of Medis QFR
December 2022 edition Given the regular posts of peer-reviewed scientific publications on the Medis QFR®, it is clear that this angio-based solution for coronary physiology is extensively used in clinical research and practice. We would like to share these publications with you so that you remain up to date about the research that is ongoing worldwide with this innovative solution, ...
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Drug Delivery: What do Patients and Providers Want?
Citation: Huddleston M, Estep J, “Drug Delivery: What do Patients and Providers Want?” ONdrugDelivery, Issue 124 (Sep 2021), pp 10–14. Matthew Huddleston and Jennifer Estep discuss current drug delivery options and the value of convenient care. Worldwide, patient and provider preferences are changing due to the covid-19 pandemic. The need to reduce patient exposure to the ...
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