Necessity is the mother of invention, they say – so, during the Covid-19 pandemic, a clinic in Israel has realized its ‘virtual hospital’, where telemedicine techniques help provide care without physical contact. We also look across the channel, where the UK’s recent solo course extends to their MDR management, and a new blood test to determine immunity against the coronavirus variants.
Article • Telehealth
Sheba Beyond: Creating Israel’s first virtual hospital
Israel’s first virtual hospital has been created following the advances and applications learned from using telemedicine tools and techniques to care for coronavirus patients in isolation wards. Sheba Beyond was established in January and over the ...
 |
Sponsored • Surgical image and video managementOR becoming an integrated high-performance hubOperating rooms are extremely complex, and the level of complexity is steadily increasing. This is reflected in the growing number of medical devices, on the one hand, and in the continuously increasing volume of data, on the other. Nowadays, ... |
 |
Article • Medical device regulation revisionMDR: The UK goes it aloneWith new Medical Device Regulations (MDR) now in force across Europe, the UK has chosen to retain pre-existing rules while also introducing mechanisms to allow it to draw up separate rulings for the sector in the future. The MDR took effect on May ... |
 |
Sponsored • Breast cancer backlogGetting cancer screening programmes back on track with AI and digitisationThe Covid-19 pandemic continues to impact people’s health across the world. This goes beyond the disease itself, as healthcare systems adapt how they provide services. Routine screening has been severely affected with screening programmes reduced ... |
 |
Article • Personalised medicine'Body-on-a-chip' technology boosts drug developmentIntegrating laboratory functions on a microchip circuit is helping improve the cost-effectiveness of drug development. So-called ‘lab-on-a-chip’ or ‘human-on-a-chip’ technology can highlight which treatments may, or may not, work before ... |
 |
News • Webinar invitationHealth Data Interoperability: realise the benefits and mitigate the risksIn 2021, health data remains an untapped opportunity; we continue to fall foul of ‘digital silos' and operating systems that are both exposed to security threats and aren't optimised to unleash the potential of data driven healthcare. |
 |
News • Covid-19 detectionNew blood test measures immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and its variantsThe Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and EPFL teamed up to develop a new test that’s sensitive enough to measure the amount of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies present in the bloodstream. The scientists’ discovery, published in Science ... |
 |
News • Preventive potentialTell-tale signs of heightened stroke risk may appear up to 10 years earlierThe tell-tale signs of a person’s susceptibility to a stroke may appear up to 10 years before the event, suggests research published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. Stroke patients experienced much steeper ... |
You are receiving this email because you subscribed to our newsletter on healthcare-in-europe If you don’t want to receive this newsletter anymore, click here to unsubscribe. Keep up-to-date on the latest news from all hospital-related fields! Copyright © 2024 mgo fachverlage GmbH & Co. KG. E.-C.-Baumann-Straße 5, 95326 Kulmbach, Germany |
   |