Healthcare
According to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics, Diet soda during pregnancy may be linked with increased infant body mass index (BMI) and may be associated with an increased risk of being obese in ...
Children born to women with diabetes and obesity are more than four times as likely to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder than children of healthy weight mothers without diabetes, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ...
Australia’s National Digital Health Strategy – Safe, Seamless and Secure: evolving health and care to meet the needs of modern Australia. Download: https://conversation.digitalhealth.gov.au/sites/default/files/adha-strategy-doc-2ndaug_0_1.pdf Digital information is the bedrock of high–quality healthcare. The benefits for patients ...
One group of doctors seems to be starting their careers on the right note – pediatricians. Despite reports indicating job dissatisfaction among some physicians, at least one group of doctors seems to be starting their ...
I wanted to share two recent great examples of embracing the future. When I read about these two examples, the thought coming into my head was – “some organisations talked about innovation, while others just ...
Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of the largest paediatric hospitals in the nation and operates the second busiest Emergency Department in the country. It is also one of the nation’s top ten freestanding children’s hospitals ...
If you haven’t spent some time learning about Blockchain, you really need to. Quickly! Blockchain is not to be confused with Bitcoin, rather Blockchain is the system that allows Bitcoin to be used as a ...
Let’s unpack this. The common example used to explain this term and its impact is the story of a game of chess involving an Indian king and Lord Krishna. The king agreed to grant the ...
Patient care may be our core “business”; however, our employees are where we should focus our efforts. Producing high-quality care and optimal outcomes are dependent upon who we have on our team and how we ...
Pakistan has one of the lowest patient-to-doctor ratios in mental health in the world. There are less than 400 trained psychiatrists nation-wide, which is approximately one psychiatrist per half-million people. Mental health services are also ...
Societies attitude to ageing and to dementia have increasingly been shown to affect older people’s sense of confidence, social engagement and positive or negative identity. “We know from the literature and the lived experience that ...
Following on from my earlier article “Getting serious about making changes in health care?” I want to highlight the importance of understanding the difference between the two types of innovations – sustaining and disruptive. To ...