Lean Project Management in Healthcare
A Patient-Physician Centered Methodology for a Modern Medical Practice Medical practice, healthcare, overall, is a high-stake project with multiple facets and determinants. Unlike many industries, such as Software as a service (SAAS) or medical device,...
Defensive Medicine is a Symptom, not a Disease
We are living through an increasingly litigious ecosphere. Patients expect better from their physicians, demand more from their administrations, and, most of all, rely extensively on their consumeristic predispositions. Consequently, governments raise the bar...
Understanding the ground robots and other intelligent systems that come to humanity’s aid during...
Currently, with the COVID-19 virus outbreak, most patients in hospitals across the world are at high risk of getting seriously ill with the virus. Patients with weak immune systems, pre-existing conditions, and old-age are advised to...
Adapting to the Data Demands of Healthcare — What’s Needed?
In recent years, data-driven tools have been nothing short of revolutionary for the healthcare sector. With smart, IoT-powered health tech, patients with chronic conditions now have more control over their day-to-day care and health...
AI’s Role and Reputation in Post-Corona Society
All things pass, including corona. But not before shaping our future and accelerating trends that were already under way. Corona has forced us to undertake unprecedented social experiments - from super surveillance over new...
Utilizing Computing In The Fight Against SARS-CoV2
“The world is facing a public health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We all need to take this on.” - The ELLIS Society All the scholars, researchers, scientists, and organizations around the...
It takes a village to take care of a patient
A Liberated village; or a Feudal dominion The Village of Healthcare must be personal and grassroots Most of us are familiar with the proverb- "It takes a village to raise a child." We have encountered its...
How Startups Can Help Fix Our Broken Healthcare Infrastructure — The Unbundling Of The...
A pandemic exposes the flaws in our society, healthcare very much included. While meaningful improvements require all 5 Ps -- Payors, Providers, Patients, Pharma, Policy-Makers -- startups can help. Big time. Entrepreneurs by definition...
Cannabinoids and The Search For A Cure To Advanced Cancer Pain
Cancer pain can have a devastating impact on the quality of life of patients. Out of the 6.6 million cancer-related deaths worldwide, over 40-91% of patients report severe pain during the course of their...
21-st century Corporate medicine and the surge of Neo-Feudalism
Neo-feudalism, or the modern feudal ideology, is growing influential and widespread worldwide. Today neo-feudalism represents the epitome of the contemporary resurgence of codes of state, economy, and public life. Neo-Feudalism is reminiscent of those...
Coronavirus epidemic; beyond Socio-political rhetoric
An intimate insight into the chronology of emerging infectious diseases For the past few decades, we all have contemplated the increasing focus of emerging as well as re-emerging infectious diseases. Or in the least, we...
Internet of Things in Healthcare Industry
As the diffusion of connected devices proceeds, with the decentralization of the network, with the use of new predictive technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, the need and usefulness of using the...
Disease from China Goes Viral
Fitting for health scares, searing images depict people wearing masks. Not sure when the fast-spreading coronavirus will strike, those threatened know infection could be deadly. Mainland China held the dubious distinction of originating the disease,...
Can Primary Care sustain Quality Healthcare for All?
A comparative analysis in the context of developed; and developing states Primary care medicine was established to provide essential treatment for common medical problems. It is primarily the modern version of a concept introduced based...
How is Artificial Intelligence (AI) used in Healthcare for better outcomes?
Artificial Intelligence has made major strides in recent years. It has found application is different industrial verticals and businesses. It has revolutionized and revamped business processes and operations, which has resulted in increased efficiency...
The Virtue of Aristocracy Abides No Borders
Even within the German Healthcare System ”Quality is not an act; it is a habit”- like Aristotle, the Greek philosopher indicated in 322 BC. Yet today, we still stand struggling to exercise that simple excerpt...
Alma-Ata Declaration of ’Health for all’: A generation old quest with trivial conquest
Health is the most precious asset of every human being, as we all endure the right to live in a full state of bodily, mental, social harmony without the pain and suffering. But, as...
Stark’s law, corporate safe-harbor in contradiction of impartiality to physician decree
Bribery and its formalized version; the kickback practice under the current definition is undoubtedly among the most unethical live out ever been committed by humankind. It will probably stay that way for generations to...
Telemedicine prescribes cure for distant connections
Telemedicine embodies modern-day risk-reward for personal data. It holds the promise of greater personal contact where healthcare providers are scarce. Yet, mobile health encounters daily threats from hackers or simple mishandling of personally identifiable...
Medico-legal Perils of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
Technology is advancing at an alarming rate, as its footprints can be amenably noticed within the healthcare domain. The overpowering ambivalence of technology among the physician community is consequently self-explanatory. In contrast to the...