News • Substance use among healthare professionals
Doctors on drugs (and how it affects patient care)
Alcohol, cannabis and psychostimulants: A new study explores how healthcare professionals perceive that their own substance use affects their work.
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News • Reducing clinician burden and burnout
Documentation takes the joy out of medicine – AI scribes could bring it back
AI-driven scribes that record patient visits and draft clinical notes for physician review may lead to significant reductions in physician burnout and improvements in well-being, a new study finds.
News • Future Health Index 2025
‘In medical AI we trust’? Many patients disagree
AI has the power to transform healthcare, but trust gaps among clinicians and patients threaten to slow adoption and impact, the 10th annual Future Health Index (FHI) report reveals.
News • Physicians' dilemma
Who is to blame for errors of medical AI?
Assistive AI systems are designed to ease the workload of physicians. However, implementation of the technology could actually worsen challenges related to error prevention and burnout, experts warn.
Article • Generative AI
Large language models: enabler or eroder of cardiovascular care?
Large language models (LLMs) have potential in healthcare settings to help support both patients and clinicians. Cardiologist Dr Robert van der Boon believes they could have several applications, including patient communication and education, clinical decision support and administrative tasks. Delegates to ESC 2024 in London heard roles explored for LLMs in areas of clinical decision-making,…
Article • Emergency departments voice concerns
Understaffed and overcrowded: survey highlights ED safety fears
A survey of emergency medicine practitioners across Europe has highlighted major concerns over safety and overcrowding in Emergency Departments (ED). Understaffing, too few doctors and the risk of burnout were also among the issues highlighted in the Europe-wide survey by the European Society of Emergency Medicine (EUSEM). While AI technology may help alleviate some of these issues, its…
News • Improving radiology workflows
AI weeds out unremarkable chest X-rays
Radiology practices have a high volume of chest X-rays without clinically significant finding, which take up a lot of time. A new AI tool could improve workflows by providing an automatic report.
News • Horizon grant for "KEEPCARING"
Study to prevent burnout of surgeons and OR staff
To address the increasing stress and burnout rates among healthcare professionals, Amsterdam UMC will lead a European consortium in search of the best solutions.
News • Future Health Index 2024 global report
Healthcare leaders turn to AI to address critical care gaps
Staff shortage, financial burdens, and growing demand for care are major challenges for healthcare institutions. The latest Future Health Index report indicates that AI is seen as a key solution.
News • Profession pressures
Covid-19 pandemic triggered surge in medical staff intention to leave
Burnout, fear of infection, lack of support: One in three doctors and nurses considered leaving their job, or the healthcare profession altogether, during the Covid-19 pandemic, a new study shows.
News • Impact of patient characteristics
Breast cancer AI: unequal performance across ethnicities and age groups
Current AI systems for detecting breast cancer from mammography exams are more likely to produce false-positive results in black women and older patients, a new study finds.
News • Working environment
Women in healthcare: more stress, higher burnout rates
Gender inequality, poor work-life integration, lack of support: female medical professionals are exposed to greater levels of stress and are more prone to burnout than men, a new study finds.
News • Survey results
Emergency departments seen as unsafe by both patients and professionals
Are emergency departments safe places? An international survey among both professionals and patients yields sobering results. Staff shortages and overcrowding were seen as main reasons.
News • The "Rx" factor
GP burnout linked to higher opioid and antibiotic prescribing
When in doubt, write a prescription? New research links burnout in GPs to higher antibiotic and strong opioid prescribing, especially in more deprived areas of the North of England.
Interview • Interview with President Adrian Brady
ECR 2023: Going back to normal – with a few twists
ECR 2023 returns to its traditional date in March, but delegates can expect novelties with sessions touching not just cutting-edge science, but also archaeology and palaeontology, and putting trainees in the spotlight, Congress President Professor Adrian Brady told Healthcare in Europe in an exclusive interview.
News • "Critical" critical care
Study shows soaring mental health challenges for frontline Covid nurses
Nurses who worked in critical care during the Covid pandemic are at an increased risk of mental health problems, according to a new study.
Sponsored • A tool to empower healthcare organizations
Eliminating silos and improving patient outcomes
Clinician and nurse burnout is a frequently discussed topic in the healthcare community in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to an analysis of the NHS published earlier this year, more than 400 workers in England have left the NHS to restore work-life balance within this past year. Burnout and cases of post-traumatic stress disorder after working through the Covid-19 pandemic are major…
News • Suggestion for double reading practice
Solving the radiologist shortage with trained radiographers
When double reading screening mammograms, radiographers trained for the task perform as well as radiologists in key areas, according to a new publication.
News • AI vs. NSCLC
Streamlining lung cancer radiotherapy with Deep Learning
UK researchers developed and validated a deep learning algorithm that can identify and outline a non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumor on a CT scan within seconds.
Article • Philips presents portfolio update at ECR 2022
AI-powered MRI to increase imaging speed, reduce staff burden
The portfolio Philips presented at ECR 2022 revealed that the company not only advanced their products, but also listened to medical professionals and patients – and took their feedback to heart.
Article • Overheard at ISRRT
Radiography reflection of Covid on the frontline
Delegates at an international radiography conference were given an insight into the impact Covid-19 has had on their profession and practice in five countries across the world. A special session at the online ISRRT (International Society of Radiographers and Radiological Technologists) congress in Dublin (August 20-22) heard experiences from Thailand, Nigeria, Italy, India and Ireland, with…
Clinical intelligence
Dedalus and Rx.Health partner to 'liberate' healthcare data
Healthcare software company Dedalus announced its strategic partnership in North America with Rx.Health, an AI-based digital health unification and clinical intelligence platform. The partnership will enable collaboration between Dedalus’ solution, Digital Connect for Health (DC4H) with Rx.Health’s platform that unifies and automates digital health through an EHR connected formulary and 250+…
News • Joint statement
Cardiovascular organisations concerned about clinician well-being
Clinician well-being is imperative to providing high-quality patient care, yet clinician burnout continues to increase, especially over the last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Four leading cardiovascular organisations are calling for global action to improve clinician well-being in a joint opinion paper.
News • Chest CT workflow optimisation
AI-powered Covid-19 solution reduces report turnaround time by 30%
The results of a large-scale study indicate that the introduction of an AI-powered solution by healthcare software company Radlogics into radiology workflow to analyze Chest-CT scans during the Covid-19 pandemic reduced report turnaround time by an average of 30 percent, which is equivalent to 7 minutes per case.
News • Emotional exhaustion
Nurses burned out and want to quit
A survey of nurses caring for children with heart problems has revealed that more than half are emotionally exhausted. The analysis, presented at ESC Congress 2020, also found that good working environments were linked with less burnout.
Video • Radiology and COVID-19
Out of adversity comes opportunity
The critical role of radiographers in the coronavirus epidemic was highlighted in the final episode of the ESR Connect series of webcasts, ‘Radiology fighting COVID-19’. Three European speakers in the session ‘Radiologists & Radiographers: Lessons learned from the pandemic’ (chaired by Helmut Prosch, Professor of Radiology at the Medical University Vienna), discussed their coronavirus…
Article • Imaging workflow challenges
The long-term impact of Covid-19 on teleradiology
The coronavirus pandemic created unprecedented upheaval and challenges within health systems, economies, and society. In hospitals, new ways of working had to evolve. Social distancing led to virtual consultations and teleradiology has found an added dimension. We asked three radiologists about the relevance of teleradiology during the epidemic, and what the future holds.
Article • Avoiding mistakes
Errors and near misses in breast imaging
Errors in breast imaging: the subject is vexing. How to avoid or address errors are also concerning. These subjects lay at the core of a presentation to radiologists during the recent annual congress of the British Institute of Radiology, when consultant radiologist Dr Rosalind Given-Wilson described the how, where, and what of errors or near misses, along with their impact on patients and…
Article • Is the problem also the solution?
Why digitisation pushes (and prevents) physician burnout
Deployment of electronic health records (EHR) are increasingly cited as a factor in physician burnout. However, a senior figure with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) – which supports the transformation of health through information and technology – believes defined use of data and information can help off-set the impact of burnout among health professionals.…
News • Cancer care
Oncology Nursing: Worldwide knowledge differs greatly
Nurses’ knowledge of cancer and screening processes varies significantly across the globe – potentially resulting in unnecessary deaths where knowledge falls short – new research reports. It is therefore vitally important to assess varying levels of knowledge in nurses across the world, a new study led by researchers from the University of Surrey reports.
Article • AI in imaging
Radiologists must control their own destiny
Radiologists have not ended talk about artificial intelligence and machine learning but, rather than fear for the future of their profession, they themselves must decide how that should be, an eminent expert Dr Woojin Kim warned ECR delegates in Vienna in March. Two years in discussion and the hype around artificial intelligence (AI) is far from fading. Interest has never been higher, and the…
Article • Under pressure
Physician burnout cases are rising
Longer hours, more demanding working practices, complex cases and increased administration are taking their toll on physicians as growing numbers, across a range of specialties, report signs of burnout. All this despite technological advances such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to aid diagnosis, read and interpret images, improve workflow and enhance decision-making.
News • Medical errors
Burnout in doctors has shocking impact on care
Burnout in doctors has devastating consequences on the quality of care they deliver, according to a large-scale systematic review and meta-analysis. The study, by experts at the Universities of Manchester, Keele, Leeds, Birmingham and Westminster, looks at 47 papers which together analyse the responses of 43,000 doctors. It finds that doctors with burnout are twice as likely to make mistakes,…
News • International study
Primary care consultations last less than 5 minutes for half the world’s population
Primary care consultations last less than 5 minutes for half the world’s population, but range from 48 seconds in Bangladesh to 22.5 minutes in Sweden, reveals the largest international study of its kind, published in the online journal BMJ Open. Shorter consultation times have been linked to poorer health outcomes for patients and a heightened risk of burnout for doctors. And as demand for…
Article • Physicians protest
Overworked family doctors sound the alarm
Three quarters of Dutch general practitioners (GPs: family doctors) experience an increasing work pressure, according to a recent survey of the National Association of General Practitioners (LHV). Especially evening, night and weekend services at GP Emergency Posts (Dutch: HAP) are found to be heavy duty, in addition to their daily practice.
Article • Professional affairs
Radiologists suffer from burnout and gender inequality
In an exclusive interview, Mauricio Castillo, president of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), spoke about the impact of dissatisfaction and gender discrimination in radiology, the focus of his Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen Honorary Lecture at ECR 2017.
News • Burnout
Trauma team members face risk of 'compassion fatigue'
Trauma team members are at risk of compassion fatigue and burnout syndrome, as supported by the new research by Gina M. Berg, PhD, MBA, of University of Kansas School of Medicine–Wichita and colleagues. They identify some "stress triggers" contributing to these risks, and make recommendations to help trauma teams cope with secondary traumatic stress.
News • Communication
Communication is key to Emergency Department success
The high-risk, rapidly changing nature of hospital Emergency Departments creates an environment where stress levels and staff burnout rates are high, but researchers at St. Michael's Hospital have identified the secret sauce that helps many emergency clinicians flourish - communication.
Listen to your heart 24 hours a day
The ‘Fire of Life’ developed by Schiller is an intuitive visual presentation of frequency-domain heart rate variability (HRV) that makes the assessment of 24-hour results fast and simple.
Burnout: The physicians’ dangerous affliction
Burnout. The word jars – and it is particularly unsettling when associated with medical professionals. Burnout is a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and feelings of low personal accomplishment.
Lower Dose Without Compromising Image Quality
As the use of interventional procedures to diagnose and treat diseases increase worldwide, and the procedures grow in complexity and length, exposure to radiation is a growing concern for both clinicians and patients. GE’s Innova imaging systems help clinicians reduce radiation exposure without compromising the image quality they need to help them make confident decisions during interventional…
Bayer Healthcare’s 7th European Diabetes Nursing Symposium
In November, European diabetologists converged on Leverkusen, Germany, to discuss current practices in diabetic management of Type 1 and Type 2 in adults, as well as new technologies, procedures and the need for patients’ education.
Burnout prevention in the ICU
In intensive medicine, burnout has a major impact on the quality of care. For example, in intensive care units, where the staff suffers burnout, statistics indicate that patients remain longer in an artificial coma than in ICUs that are more or less free of burnout. ‘Obviously, that does not happen consciously,’ says Prof. Wolfgang Lalouschek, Medical Director of The Tree Health Care Centre…
Better protection for nurses! - A global call to action
Provision of standard infectious disease precautions and safe workplaces for nurses all around the world are the main claims of a statement shaped during the International AIDS Conference by Physicians for Human Rights and the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.
EL SÍNDROME DEL QUEMADO
1.INTRODUCCIÓN Los gestores sanitarios de hoy afrontan un problema que afecta tanto a directivos como a empleados el "síndrome del quemado"...
The Netherlands roundup
For many years, in almost all Dutch hospitals, assistant-doctors have worked alone during evening, night and weekend shifts, when the responsible physicians are not available.
Low nurse levels cause deaths
Geneva - Inadequate staffing is reaching crisis levels in all regions, according to the International Council of Nurses (ICN). Among studies reviewed, one showed that an increased workload from four to six surgical patients resulted in a 14% increase in the chance of a patient in that nurse's care dying within 30 days of admission.
The typology of conflicts in the ICU
Uncdertainty in prognoses causes symptoms of anxiety and depresiion in family members.
