‘Why should something that works for the automotive industry not also facilitate leaner processes in pathology?’ Walter Depner decided to look at The Institute of Pathology in Bern, Switzerland, where the concept was tested for three years.
As many laboratories face demands to turn around faster, more accurate patient test results against a backdrop of increasingly stringent quality control and tighter budgets, the search is on for tools to help meet ever-stretching targets.
Laboratories are an essential part of effective modern healthcare. They provide clinicians with vital information that helps them make life-saving decisions, diagnose conditions and monitor patient treatment.
Agfa HealthCare announces today that it has signed an agreement with Real Time Medical (RTM) to support the needs of collaborating or consolidated hospitals and imaging networks.
seca 456 wa transmits data from seca 360° wireless products to Welch Allyn patient monitor. In the world's first collaboration on wireless transmission of height and weight to patient monitors, seca and Welch Allyn help users to save time and effort while optimizing routine medical procedures.
There is a wealth of information in every radiology exam, but even a phalanx of super-computers at the National Security Agency (NSA) could not extract it.
Patients in intensive care units in hospitals across the UK are benefiting from a combination of new techniques and technology with changes in clinical practice that help to dramatically cut incidences of infection.
InterComponentWare AG (ICW) and iSOFT Health GmbH, a CSC Company, have struck up a technology partnership.
Off-hour presentation and outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction: systematic review and meta-analysis
Today, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. announces that it has entered into a master collaboration agreement with Pfizer Inc. to design, develop and commercialize diagnostic tests for therapeutic products across Pfizer’s pipeline.
Improving the turnaround time of radiology reports is a key performance objective of most hospital radiology departments. Software that automates the process has been available for many years.
For Pablo Ros, MD, the decision to use the new IQon Spectral CT system from Philips Healthcare is a no-brainer. The head of the radiology department at the prestigious University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and the co-director of Case Center for Imaging Research, introduced the new technology on the first day at the congress of the Radiological Society of North America…
Radiologists, EU policy makers and medical industry in drive to strengthen collaboration on personalised medicine
A large proportion of the patients treated at the Asklepios Schlossberg Clinic are intensive care patients. To track the medical treatment and nursing support which is carried out, an immense amount of documentation is produced.
Professional mobility has always been high on the EU agenda. But what are the impacts on the medical sector, if physicians and nurses leave their countries en masse? Daniela Zimmermann asked Günter Danner, Associate Director of the European Representation of the German Social Insurance in Brussels
The new Hospital Engineering Lab in Duisburg, Germany, which was officially opened in July by Barbara Steffens, Health Minister for the German federal state, is a project of four Fraunhofer Institutes.
Previously, we outlined how interactive technologies at the point of care support the goals of personalizing the patient experience and improving patient satisfaction.
At healthcare facilities across the globe, the Siemens PACS syngo.plaza delivers high-throughput reading, easy-to-manage IT, and the ultimate potential of the syngo platform.
Statistics behind the headlines: Have there been 13,000 needless deaths at 14 NHS trusts?
Through recent decades, the Republic of Korea in East Asia has developed into a society with an advanced economy. To Europeans, the culture and cuisine are certainly very different – and highly attractive to tourists.
This year’s EuroMedLab and IFCC-EFLM Congress came at a time when all hospitals face ever-increasing healthcare costs, aging populations and patients and GPs demanding more complex and novel diagnostic tests.
Paramount to reduced costs and a shortage of skilled professionals, improved quality of care and patient satisfaction are the leading priorities in healthcare today.
At healthcare facilities across the globe, the Siemens PACS syngo.plaza delivers high-throughput reading, easy-to-manage IT, and the ultimate potential of the syngo platform.
Erlangen’s CSC RIS streams data through workplaces, speeds up reports and patient care, so, what’s next – greater mobility and transmission to a Cloud?
Wireless networks expert Melih Duran discusses solutions to streamline and optimise patient care.