Topic of the Month February:
The Digital Hospital - Challenges to Modern Hospital Management

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The Global Healthcare market is expected to increase 5.7 percent per year. This increase in expenditure results from rising in-patient admissions, the more intensive and expensive nature of in-patient care, and the growth of the hospital equipment and services market.

This investment forces healthcare providers to focus on improving quality of care and information sharing, whilst reducing costs and medical errors. Thus, efficient computing in hospitals is a must. In February, MEDICA.de concerns itself with issues related to modern hospital management.

Powerful computer simulation tools have been developed to assist doctors in diagnosis, pre-operation planning and surgery. So powerful in fact that many of these tools cannot be run efficiently on normal computers. The Grid, however, is a vast interconnected collection of computers, programmes and people. - Grid: Technologies for the Medical Community

Healthcare professionals have quickly adopted speech recognition technology to ease the creation of medical reports. More and more hospitals now implement speech recognition throughout the entire organization. - Hospital-wide speech recognition: A convenient way of reducing healthcare costs

You bring questions to your physician, but if your doctor has questions about how to best provide care for you, where does he or she go for answers? Physicians still use paper-based resources, however, a University of Iowa Health Care study focused on paediatricians shows that it takes less than one-third of the time to use the computer to find an answer. - Helping Doctors Answer Patient Care Questions

In the first-ever direct comparison of robot-assisted and traditional surgery for children's heart defects, University of Michigan surgeons report that the robot's help shortening the hospital stay by reducing patients' recuperation time, surgery-related trauma and scarring, while extending the length of the operation by just over half an hour. - Robotic Surgery: Cost-Effective and Safe

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