Articles
Renowned heads of hospitals and healthcare companies as well as other subject matter experts write articles on crucial issues in the healthcare industry. This section addresses issues that are being discussed right now in industries like information technology, healthcare management, medical sciences, surgical specialties, technology, and diagnostics.
Hospitalacquired infections HAIs remain one of the most persistent and costly challenges in healthcare delivery For decades clinicians administrators and regulators have rightly focused on preventing infections related to invasive procedures bloodstream infections ventilatorassociated pneumonia surg...
Twenty percent of Americans live in rural communities today As a result the epidemic of rural hospital closures is poised to impact a significant portion of the US population Across the country more than rural hospitals
Internal information technology teams often lack the resources to drive strategic projects forward Administrators express concern about protecting patient health information Meanwhile essential tasks such as system updates and integrations fall by the wayside due to time and budget constraints In si...
Longevity by design is the idea that longer healthier lives can be intentionally created through the combined design of technology environments and social systems Instead of treating ageing as a passive inevitable decline it views it as something that can be actively shaped
Anyone working closely with hospitals over the past couple of years knows thisthings arent settling down There was an expectation that postpandemic operations would stabilize That hasnt really happened Prices remain uncertain staffing is not constant and patients are much less patienttolerant of del...
Historically mobile clinics have been viewed as compassionate extensions of the healthcare system reaching communities that traditional facilities often struggle to serve Today however they are emerging as strategic assets in valuebased care producing measurable clinical and economic benefits that c...
Hospitals are at the intersection of the business and healthcare delivery in the United States Contrary to the situation in most countries where the work of hospitals is centralized in the US hospitals exist in a complex ecosystem which is determined by a mixture of private enterprise regulatory fra...
In the recent past the use of artificial intelligence AI in decisionmaking has become prominent This is especially true with healthcare systems The use of AI within the healthcare ecosystem is gaining popularity This trend was possible due to the HITECH Act of which forced the digitisation of the h...
Precision medicine has long been framed as the aspiration of modern healthcare delivering the right intervention to the right patient at the right time Over the past two decades extraordinary advances in data acquisition have made this goal theoretically achievable Genomic sequencing advanced imagin...
Cardiovascular diseaseCVD remains the leading cause of mortality in both men and women worldwide For decades CVD was largely perceived as a predominantly male condition Clinical paradigms diagnostic thresholds and therapeutic strategies were largely developed and validated in male populations As a r...
