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Point-of-View - Enterprise Imaging

Artificial Intelligence – Impact, Challenges and Opportunities

Dr Anjum Ahmed is the Chief Medical Officer at Agfa HealthCare. He has played an essential role in steering the company’s innovation strategy for Enterprise Imaging and Artificial Intelligence. Dr Ahmed has over 23 years of global experience in solutions innovation, governance, change management and digital transformation. Before joining Agfa HealthCare, he spent 12 years implementing clinical and imaging...

Point-of-View - Intelligent Imaging

Integrated Cancer Care and Intelligent Imaging

Early diagnosis of cancer can lead to better patient care and better outcomes. In particular, the use of intelligent imaging technology along the patient’s journey, from screening to diagnosis to treatment, monitoring and follow-up, is essential. HealthManagement.org spoke to Dr Ben Newton, General Manager, Oncology at GE Healthcare, to discuss his views on integrated cancer care, the optimum use of imagi...

Point-of-View -AI: Opportunities, Capabilities and Limits

"One Ring to Rule Them All" in AI – Affidea’s Experience

An overview of Affidea’s experience on the road to AI implementation and the need to understand the complexity of integrating multiple AI solutions safely, offering clear benefits to patients and radiologists. Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Artificial Intelligence (AI) in radiology is growing at a fast pace. A 2020 study from the American College of Radiology on radiologist uptake of AI shows th...

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Teamplay Digital Health Platform for Performance Management in Radiology

An overview of teamplay applications for performance management in radiology and how they offer a clear overview of performance data and facilitate radiology directors or clinical administrators to make fast and well-informed decisions. The teamplay digital health platform enables digital transformation by facilitating easy access to solutions for operational, clinical and shared decision support.The tea...

Point-of-View - AI: Opportunities, Capabilities and Limits

Application of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Artificial Intelligence is believed to lead the process of digitalisation and transformation in healthcare. How can healthcare organisations prepare for this change? What opportunities does AI offer for the healthcare sector? Which AI-based radiology tools are expected to make a difference? HealthManagement.org spoke to Sourabh Pagaria, Executive Vice President & Managing Director of the Southern Europe...

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Telemedicine Care Combined with AI: Capabilities and Benefits

An overview of the application of AI (artificial intelligence)-enabled systems in telemedicine and the Comarch healthcare strategy to develop building blocks of this new care system. The management of chronic disease and geriatric disorders is one of the biggest challenges for healthcare systems.Telemedicine solutions bring innovative answers to the needs of healthcare providers.AI (artificial intelligence)...

Point-of-View - Innovation and Technology in Healthcare

Innovative Technologies Will Address Health System Challenges

Innovation is the fuel for any improvement in society because technology always pushes back limitations. Thales envisions to build on its advanced expertise to meet the healthcare challenges of tomorrow. Bringing performant secure healthcare access to anyone, anywhere, will overcome critical medical issues. After the pandemic revealed the weakness of global health systems, our societies have seen public h...

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Unlocking Digital Tools to Expand Access to Healthcare

An overview of the emergence of digital front doors, their potential and key points to bear in mind during the technological transition.For decades, basic healthcare interaction has been a human one. However, the limitations of this system are now becoming more and more apparent.Patients today are demanding fast, convenient, easy and affordable service.Primary care physicians are no longer the first option...

Point-of-View - Enterprise Imaging

Transformation of Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg Hospital

Dr Bruno De Peuter, Head of Medical Imaging and Musculoskeletal Radiology Specialist at Belgian hospital Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, explains how the hospital transformed itself into a modern, well-respected, tertiary care centre. Over the past few decades, the medical imaging department at Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL) has experienced a major transformation. With 30 radiologists on-site and four sites...

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Telehealth Platforms: The Foundation for Digital Transformation

An overview of the role of digital transformation in the healthcare space, particularly the adoption of telehealth solutions during the pandemic and an outlook of the future of telehealth solutions and the momentum of digitalisation in healthcare. During the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation efforts in healthcare have accelerated, especially in the telehealth sphere.Remote patient monitoring is her...

Point-of-View - Disease Assessment and Management

The Importance of Syncope Assessment, Diagnosis and Management

Professor Michele Brignole is the the coordinator of the Faint & Fall programme at the IRCCS Istituto Auxologico, Milan, Italy. He was formerly the Director of the Department of Cardiology of Ospedali del Tigullio, Lavagna, Italy. Prof Brignole’s main fields of research are diagnosis, pathophysiology, therapy of syncope and rhythm disturbances and catheter ablation of arrhythmias. He served as the cha...

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Dare to Change!

An overview of the successful collaboration between Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch (CHEM) and Agfa HealthCare and the implementation of the Enterprise Imaging platform. The Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch (CHEM) is the biggest hospital in the southern region of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. 1861 staff and 258 doctors work across three sites to care for 100,000 patients per year. But from an inform...

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Peer Review System: Collaborative Learning to Achieve Clinical Excellence

An overview of Affidea’s Peer Review system that allows radiology teams to learn and grow together and benefit from each other’s expertise and experience for better clinical outcomes. At Affidea, we aim to create a strong culture of quality where every member of the clinical team feels empowered and encouraged to participate in the process of improving patient care. We do this through various syst...

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AI vs Human: The Use of Artificial Intelligence for Medical Analysis

An overview of the role of Artificial Intelligence during the treatment process and implementation of AI algorithms to increase patient awareness and improve access to anonymised data. Artificial intelligence has been pushing itself into the digital space of the medical industry for several years. Recently, however, this process has accelerated significantly. Newer and more effective diagnostic algorithm...

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Does Mechanical Thrombectomy Provide Economic Benefit In Ischaemic Stroke?

The impact of COVID-19 on stroke services and using mechanical thrombectomy and best medical management, as per national guidelines, for patients with large vessel occlusion-related acute ischaemic stroke. In the last 20 years, death rates from stroke have fallen mostly due to successful prevention strategies such as hypertension control and smoking cessation (https://strokeeurope.eu/). Although it is p...

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Diagnosing Initial Orthostatic Hypotension – The Race Against Sudden Blood Pressure Drops

Initial Orthostatic Hypotension (OH) is described as a rapid and transient drop in blood pressure associated with the increased risk of falls, fractures and syncope, especially in the ageing population (Tran et al. 2021). As prevalence is high, the problem is evident, but due to limited access to reliable continuous diagnostic methods, the detection of OH is restricted. Experts demand continuous blood press...

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Can Telemedicine Save Money? Case Study of Comarch Diagnostic Point in the Workplace

A case study of Comarch Diagnostic Point and its application and results at a large organisation with twenty offices in Italy. We speak a lot about equity, equal treatment, equal access to care. But does it include workplaces? After all, we all spend a lot of time there. Employers care for their employees health in many ways. But how can a big company with several offices all over the country or all ov...

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Patient Pathway Digitisation – More Than Meets the Eye

An overview of the patient pathway digitisation process and the tools and strategies that can facilitate the journey of digitisation in radiology. Can digitisation of patient pathways create seamless patient interactions with healthcare providers and enable novel ways of cooperation between clinicians?To what extent, in the design of digital tools, can we draw on the experience of other service industries...

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Digital Solutions Are the Now and the Future of Diabetes Management

Diabetes is a chronic disease that requires daily management including lifestyle and behavioural modifications, compliance with medications, blood glucose control and close patient monitoring, all of which can be efficiently supported by digital solutions. Diabetes is a global health crisis. Recent estimates suggest the incidence of diabetes will increase to 1 in 10 adults by 2040 (Bommer et al. 2018). It...