CIO - 6 Innovations That Will Change Healthcare CIO — The United States, in particular, and the world, in general, faces a healthcare crisis of enormous proportions. The cost of care is already rising, but the combination of an aging population and changes to diet and lifestyle leaves a growing percentage of the population susceptible to chronic health conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes, which further drive healthcare costs. By 2020, the United States is expected to spend $4 trillion annually on healthcare —more than the GDP of all but a handful of nations. Healthcare, then, is ripe for innovation. Feature: 13 Healthcare IT Trends and Predictions for 2013 Commentary: Why Tech Entrepreneurs Will Transform Healthcare The Future of Health and Wellness Conference held earlier this month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology highlighted the results of some of these collaborations. 1. Gartner: Big Data, EHR Driving Healthcare IT Innovation Related: 12 Tips to Prevent a Healthcare Data Breach Continue Reading
Doctor Patient Relationship “You are feeling better today,” announced the gastroenterologist as he sat down by my hospital bed. I was genuinely surprised. “Really? What’s better?” “Well,” he sputtered, his face flushing, “in my professional opinion, you are better!” I sighed, searching for more conciliatory words. “Your lymphocytes are better and you look better,” he said after a pause. I smiled, privately wondering how I could look better when my hair was one day dirtier, but I knew I couldn’t afford to challenge him again. Can you hear the tension in this encounter? Tug of War If you’re wondering why so many office visits turn into a tug of war, it’s partly because doctors and patients are on different ends of the rope. To the doctor, illness is a disease process that can be measured and understood through laboratory tests and clinical observations. Doctors feel frustrated, even betrayed, when patients withhold pertinent information. Fault Line All these changes are unsettling for both doctors and patients.
NHS Knowledge Management What is knowledge management? Knowledge management (or KM) enables access to knowledge, information, experience and best practice in health and social care. "You can't manage knowledge. What you can do is to manage the environment in which knowledge can be created, discovered, captured, shared, distilled, validated, transferred, adopted, adapted and applied. the right conditions: a common reliable infrastructure and an organisation willing be entrepreneurial;the right means: a common model, tools and processes;the right actions: where people instinctively seek, share and use knowledge; andthe right leadership: where learning and sharing is expected and role-modelled." - Chris Collison, KM expert Clinicians and managers alike rely heavily on knowledge management expertise for support in training, education, development and practice. Why is knowledge management important in the NHS? "Knowledge is the enemy of disease." Resources Related skills to develop
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BBC History: The Welfare State - Never Ending Reform 01 - Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust Gerard Keegan's Psychology Site 02 - Royal Free About us The Royal Free began as a pioneering organisation and we continue to play a leading role in the care of our patients. Established in 1828 by William Marsden, a newly qualified surgeon shocked that he could not find treatment for a penniless young woman, we were the first to provide care free of charge and the only London hospital to stay open during the 19th-century cholera epidemics. In the 21st century, we continue to lead improvements in healthcare and are proud to have some of the best clinical outcomes in the country. Our mortality rates have been consistently among the best in English trusts for many years. We offer an exceptionally wide range of local and specialist services and provided over 880,000 episodes of care in 2012/13. We are a major transplantation centre for liver, kidney and bone marrow transplants, one of the UK’s leading centres for the diagnosis and treatment of liver disease and one of the seven liver transplant centres in the UK.
Sigmund Freud - Life and Work 06 - Computer glitches at Royal Free Computer glitches at Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead drains millions 8:33am Thursday 13th November 2008 in News By Tomasz Johnson Royal Free: The Cerner Millenium computer system had a massive impact on income The Royal Free Hospital has lost millions of pounds because of a dodgy computer system introduced this summer. The Hampstead hospital, which treats patients from Barnet, reported a half-yearly budget deficit of £7.7 million last week and attributed blame for almost all of it to the Government-backed Cerner Millenium system. The system, which went live in June, is designed to manage appointments and hold patient information electronically, but has been plagued with problems from the start. A report released by the Trust last week reveals that it lost £3.78 million because data had been entered wrongly, £1.32 million because appointment slots had not been filled and has forked out £1.23 for additional staffing to cope with the problems. People who read this article also read
How Cells Work" At a microscopic level, we are all composed of cells. Look at yourself in a mirror -- what you see is about 10 trillion cells divided into about 200 different types. Our muscles are made of muscle cells, our livers of liver cells, and there are even very specialized types of cells that make the enamel for our teeth or the clear lenses in our eyes! If you want to understand how your body works, you need to understand cells. Anyone who reads the paper or any of the scientific magazines (Scientific American, Discover, Popular Science) is aware that genes are BIG news these days. BiotechnologyGene splicingHuman genomeGenetic engineeringRecombinant DNAGenetic diseasesGene therapyDNA mutationsDNA fingerprinting or DNA profiling Gene science and genetics are rapidly changing the face of medicine, agriculture and even the legal system! In this article, we'll delve down to the molecular level to completely understand how cells work. What is a virus and how does it work at the molecular level?
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