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DEFIBRILLATION Due to advances in medical science at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century resulting in longer life expectancies, heart diseases became a serious health problem and the leading cause of death. Previously, people usually died of infectious diseases before they reached an age at which heart problems posed a real health threat. Around this time, Swiss re...

However, labs often face hurdles such as fluctuating sample volumes, staff shortages, financial constraints from budget cuts, and shifting diagnostic methods. To address these challenges and facilitate efficient, timely, and cost-effective clinical bacteriological testing, a new solution now offers comprehensive lab automation for clinical microbiology laboratories. Bec...

Health Tech Must Prove Big ROI With healthcare costs increasing and margins shrinking, providers demand that healthcare technologies demonstrate a strong return on investment. Healthcare software vendors in 2023 will need to adapt their priorities to succeed: . Understand clients’ key economic metrics, cost structure, and revenue drivers (if you’re not sure, ask them). ...

The project was managed by The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Bridger Carr Architects and main contractor Bermar Building Co. Ltd., with Yeoman Shield supplying and installing the wall protection elements. The unit will have amenities to accommodate a 13 - chair dental facility for the provision of dental treatment for adults and children with the flexibility to b...

Hospitals pose many challenges to manufacturers of video security systems (VSS) through a variety of complex scenarios that include the need to balance security with privacy, the prevalence of false alarms, compliance with evolving regulations and the increased number of violent incidents. The safety and security of patients, visitors and staff is a priority for hospita...

The health industry alone produces around 18 million tonnes of CO² annually, which is 3.2% of all CO² emissions for the UK. In fact, NHS hospitals have greater CO² emissions than the combined emissions of all flights out of Heathrow airport*. Adopting a life cycle approach for the construction of hospitals and other healthcare facilities is key in reducing environmental...

A new AI-based tool in South Australia can accurately predict when a general surgery patient is about to be discharged from the hospital. Called the Adelaide Score, it was developed by a team of researchers from the University of Adelaide, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and the Health and Information Collaborative. This tool is being eyed for a statewide trial later th...

The ability of elevator systems to provide reliable service is crucial to ensure the most efficient health care possible. Often, the visitor or garage elevators are among the first touch points that patients and their families have with the health care facility, and a poor experience negatively affects the assessment of the patient care experience. In urban areas, verti...

We’re seeing several additive manufacturing trends that will become major factors in 2023. These trends have been growing during the last few years. What we’ll see in 2023 is the maturity of the technology. We’ll see 3D printing take a permanent place in the choices of production methods. 3D printing companies continue to experiment with methods and materials, but the co...

The document is intended to assist medical device manufacturers and other parties involved in achieving and sustaining compliance with the applicable regulatory requirements to ensure the safety and effectiveness of the products intended to be placed on the US market. However, the document itself does neither introduce new rules nor impose new obligations since the provi...

Let’s take a look at how the capabilities of additive manufacturing have become the de facto method of production in these industries. Dentistry The largest market for additive manufacturing in medicine right now is dentistry and related orthodontics such as bridges, crowns, braces, and dentures. Currently, digital dentistry is a $2.5 billion industry and this is set to...

Joking aside, some predictions are pure hunch; others are extensions of trends observed in 2022 that will continue into 2023; and others still are a reflection of my deepest hopes—some of which I hope I will nudge into being by writing it here in this column. Without further ado, I give you the year ahead in healthcare, 2023 edition: 1) Medicare Advantage Will Remain U...

Over the last thirty years, additive manufacturing has become an important part of the manufacturing toolbox. Its versatility and flexibility bring plenty of added value — yet it has also spent much of that time isolated from conventional production processes. However, those walls are slowly coming down, with the two worlds beginning to merge. The implications of this ...

What will be the key trends 2023 for industrial 3D printing? It has been a challenging three years for manufacturing industries worldwide, and it looks set to continue into 2023 with uncertainty over fuel and production costs and the continuing war in Ukraine. Despite these challenges, Additive Manufacturing (AM) has played a vital role in helping manufacturers overcome...

Pharmacy IT solutions provider Fred IT has won the contract to deliver Australia's national electronic prescribing delivery service. It will be delivering the service through eRx Script Exchange which shall ensure continuous access to a "robust, secure electronic prescription network." In a media release, the company shared some upcoming improvements in the national se...

This kind of printer, which can fit on a tabletop, could be deployed anywhere vaccines are needed, the researchers say. "We could someday have on-demand vaccine production," says Ana Jaklenec, a research scientist at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. "If, for example, there was an Ebola outbreak in a particular region, one could ship a few of these pr...

For years now, robots and automation have been making their way into pharmaceutical production. Lately, though, the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm in the form of ChatGPT: a uniquely human AI bot that will have conversations with you, research for you, and adapt to what you ask it to do. In education circles, this has raised questions a...

Researchers from Monash University's Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health have developed a mobile app that helps personalise the sleep-wake cycle of hospital shift workers. HOW IT WORKS The app called SleepSync entirely tailors a sleep-wake cycle to an individual user by taking into account their calendar for work and personal commitments and daily logging of ...

OpenAI advertises its new AI model as being “more creative and collaborative than ever before” and “can solve difficult problems with greater accuracy”. The tool is already being adopted by organisations such as Be My Eyes to assist visually impaired people and Khan Academy in education; and we will surely encounter more medical use in the months to come. So let’s get ac...

1. Do you know enough about AI? As a medical student or a young doctor, it is crucial to have a fundamental understanding of AI, its applications, and potential implications. The Medical Futurist’s paper, A short guide for medical professionals in the era of artificial intelligence provides a high-level overview of AI, its definitions, methods, levels, dangers, and advan...

As medical devices become increasingly compact, minimally invasive, and more efficient, manufacturing techniques are evolving to keep up with these highly complex designs. Building new miniature devices, however, can be a challenge. Medical devices must be cleaned, dried and finished to the highest standards to ensure they are ready for the next step in the manufacturin...

Medical imaging IT and cybersecurity firm Sectra has secured a contract to deliver a digital pathology tool to two university hospitals in France. The digital pathology solution will be provided to the University Hospital of Montpellier and the University Hospital of Nimes, both of which are situated in France’s southern region. Part of Sectra’s enterprise imaging port...

LeanTaaS has acquired intelligent automation solutions provider Hospital IQ, creating an AI-powered hospital operations software provider valued at over $1bn. For health systems, LeanTaaS provides AI-powered and SaaS-based capacity management and patient flow software. The acquisition enables the combined company to power intelligent operations across more than 180+ he...

From a small workshop with several employees to a big company with over 3,000 employees around the globe and an output value of nearly 2 billion yuan (US$282.65 million), Comen’s success lies in the hard work and innovation of its people, according to Yi Mingsheng, president of the company. Yi Mingsheng gives a thumbs-up in the office building of Comen in Guangming Dist...

Morris Heights Health Center (MHHC) has selected population health management platform company the Garage’s Bridge platform for changing healthcare in underserved Bronx, New York in the US. MHHC, which serves more than 50,000 patients, will utilise the platform to empower better care in the community. Bridge is a SaaS platform that connects care teams, providers and en...

The Carilion Children’s Tanglewood Center, which opened in October 2021 inside a former JC Penney site, combines multiple specialties, services, and amenities into one two-story, 128,000-square-foot building. It consolidates care while also providing an opportunity to reinvent the patient experience. “We wanted everything to be high-tech to take us into the future,” say...

The Respiratory Interventions technology portfolio includes Puritan Bennett ventilators, Shiley airway portfolio, McGrath MAC video laryngoscopy, DAR breathing systems, as well as PAV+, NIV+ and IE Sync ventilation software solutions designed to improve workflow and care delivery. The decision to pursue a separation is a part of its ongoing portfolio assessment and will...

The app takes just ten seconds to assess a voice sample and provide a recommendation that someone should seek further treatment. The technology could be useful in large community-wide screening programs given its convenience and speed. What can our voice reveal about us? Well, perhaps more than you may have thought. The researchers behind this latest technology aim to d...

StarHub, in partnership with Singapore’s Alexandra Hospital (AH) and ConnectedLife with Fitbit, have launched LIFEHUB+, a digital health service. Users can opt to share their Fitbit data via the LIFEHUB+ app to get dynamic health scores, data alerts, and metrics, to gain simple and clear insights into their health to make daily improvements. . For the first time, custo...

Did you miss our 2021 Healthcare online event? You can now access our on-demand webinars and explore Sony’s latest innovations for Healthcare, such as smart image management, communication in the ICU, OR integration, and much more.

Through its digital platform, HealthHero provides patients with access to a holistic range of out-of-hospital health services and clinical support. Its services are varied and include GP support and mental health services delivered through video chat, prescription services, mental health consultations and access to musculoskeletal specialists. After acquiring the much l...

Hurley Medical Center, with just 400 inpatient beds, came 111th on Newsweek’s global list and was designated the smartest hospital in Michigan. Dr. Michael Roebuck, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer at the center, said the accolade had come as a surprise. He explained: “We were especially honored to be included, given that we are a single hospital system without th...

The new SECULIFE SERIES now offers you even more safety and ease of use during testing of electrical devices in all medical technology applications. The unique, intuitive operating concept via a rotary switch with two operating levels ensures error-free, fast and reliable testing. The optimized Test cycles and automatic test sequences also enable even more tests per day....

A washer-disinfector that reduces staff workload and can be operated contact-free. It sounds like something from the future but, at BDH Clinic Elzach in Germany, the new MEIKO TopLine has already made it a reality.