The App that Could Save Lives and Battle Cancer
The Garvan Insitute of Medical Research in collaboration with Vodafone Australia have developed a new mobile phone app, called DreamLab and that can possibly aid in finding the cure for cancer.
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M-health and digital games: a new era in healthcare practice
Considering all the fast emerging trends in the information and communication technology areas, we have found our societies in a race to implement e-health systems, which guarantee improved healthcare services offers for patients and communities worldwide.
Healthy people in healthy communities – a vision each Public Health Authority should aim at achieving
The Department of Public Health from the State of Connecticut, US, aims to ensure “Healthy People in Healthy Connecticut Communities”. Far from remaining just a dream, numerous actions were taken in order to make sure this vision will be reached.
The first step was to develop the State Health Improvement Plan, a clear guide focused on improving health outcomes, by prevention and risk reduction. As part of this plan, 7 health areas of focus were identified
Queues grow and performance plummets as the UK Accident & Emergency units face a new crisis
The UK Accident & Emergency (A&E) units are currently facing a major crisis, with the patients queuing in ambulances for hours, as the service is clearly over-capacity. How has the emergency system met its target of attending patients, given the strain it has been under recently?
Reporting state healthcare system performance
In the strive to offer citizens access to high quality, but still affordable services, hospitals are continuously seeking to improve their offerings in terms of value for money. More and more medical facilities nowadays have implemented Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in order to reflect progress towards achieving their goals.
