Hospital-acquired infections and central line infections have been a significant focus within healthcare of late, with health systems undertaking myriad approaches to reduce or eliminate them, in turn bringing down costs and improving patient satisfaction and , seemingly, outcomes. But is the fear overblown? Karen Sullivan Sibert, MD a Los Angeles anesthesiologist, seems to think […]
Many people have gone a little bit overboard in their judgement about who should be doing what, when someone made a mistake in terms of diagnostics or quarantine, and what health officials should do next. Well it’s not so simple when you are the one actually there, with patients, and a lot is on the […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
OK. Ebola has gotten the nation and the world into a total frenzy, but of course, we’ve got yet another thing to worry about. The bubonic plague, a bacterial disease carried by rodents and passed to humans by flea bites, has now killed 40 people in Madagascar and is spreading, according to the World Health […]
In Northern California, around 18,000 nurses will start a two-day strike today because they aren’t happy with the equipment and training standards in place to deal with Ebola. The strike will affect 21 hospitals and 65 clinics owned by Kaiser Permanente. Fortunately, the hospitals have plans in place and will go on with normal business […]
On Monday, 43 of the 48 quarantined people who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan were released after 21 days in isolation and allowed to get back to their normal lives. The remaining few should be let go this week as well. It is questionable how “normal” a recent quarantined individual’s life could really be, […]
Hospitals still largely rely on manual methods to track hand hygiene despite the prevalence of available electronic technologies to monitor cleanliness, a new DebMed survey found, but a growing number of facilities have plans to implement monitoring technologies. There is a “positive trend in not only the adoption of better technologies, but also the more imminent […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Medizone International shared further details of its 40-bed prototype field hospital that could help combat the Ebola virus in the most affected West African countries by applying its AsepticSure device that has shown great success in disinfecting healthcare spaces. Dr. Michael Shannon, president of San Francisco-based Medizone, said Doctors Without Borders approached the company about […]
While the medical world races to treat Ebola, with vaccines and treatments being developed as quickly as possible, mobile technology and digital health could likewise go a long way in combating the virus. Ever since Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan became the first person in the U.S. to die from complications related to the virus in a Dallas […]
The World Health Organization just finished up a two-day meeting to debate whether they should allow an Ebola vaccine to be administered in the field without having tested efficacy, NPR reports. The disease’s spread is alarming, and traditional containment methods like isolation just aren’t working well enough. But while an untested Ebola vaccine given to […]
A decades-long push by British entrepreneur Marc Koska of SafePoint Trust to combat the infections and more than 1 million deaths caused by needle re-use has led to the World Health Organization introducing a mandate to adopt Koska’s K-1 syringe, which he designed in 1997. Koska made the announcement at TEDMED 2014 in Washington, D.C. […]
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Fujifilm has made an offer to the World Health Organization to distribute a stockpile of anti-influenza meds that could treat up to 20,000 individuals with Ebola. A new New Yorker article outlines why – how digital imaging behemoth Fujifilm is playing what could be an important role in the treatment of Ebola. Five years ago, it […]
Wow of the Week is a weekly post on share-worthy medical technologies, stories, people or events. A new analysis of global health data shows that the years of life lost from obesity outnumber those lost by hunger. Data from the World Health Organization’s Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 was unveiled yesterday and will be […]