“These mitigations do not represent a return to standard staffing,” said Dame Ruth May, chief nursing officer for England. “The industrial action will still have a very significant impact on services during the strike period and patients can expect to see longer waits for care.” Source link
New Delhi: The SAMRIDH Healthcare blended financing facility has committed Rs 3.2 crore to Critical Care Hope to help expand its tech-enabled hub-and-spoke Tele-ICU platform for healthcare providers in tier two and three cities to deliver critical care services. The ‘Tele-ICU’ platform aims to allow a certified critical care physician to remotely manage 60-80 ICU … Read more
Pune: Two products that would handle large genomics data and biomolecular structural data securely have been developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) on Monday. Both were launched by the bioinformatics group during a three-day symposium in Accelerating Biology 2023: Discovery to Delivery. Rajendra Joshi, senior director and head of the department … Read more
With Mr. Devender Lal’s condition remaining critical, the medical officials at Killar requested Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu to arrange for his airlifting. | Photo Credit: PTI Hours after he had sustained serious injury, 43-year-old Devender Lal was airlifted on Tuesday from the snowbound valley of Pangi in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh to a … Read more
Sarah Dransfield, CQC’s deputy director of operations in the north, said: “When we inspected NEAS NHS Foundation Trust we found a deterioration in the services being provided, especially in urgent and emergency care where this had potential for people to be placed at risk of harm. Source link
The service said declaring a critical incident allowed it to instigate measures to help including seeking assistance from third-party providers, cancelling training to allow for the redeployment of clinical staff and no longer taking bookings for urgent, non-emergency transport. Source link
The service says it is “under huge pressure” and is experiencing hospital handover delays. Source link
The recent cyberattack on the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has once again put the spotlight on cybersecurity practices at government and critical infrastructure organisations in India. Even as enterprises have increased their cybersecurity spends, experts said critical infrastructure such as power plants, hospitals and railways still run on older operating systems and … Read more
By Subbu Iyer In the last few years, healthcare systems have taken giant leaps of transformation. From manual procedures of the yesteryears to the modern, tech-enabled operations – it surely has been quite a journey. While the automation and enhanced connectivity has been a boon to modern healthcare, it has also made systems more susceptible … Read more
July 12, 2022 – Most people probably know facial recognition as the thing that unlocks your smartphone. But this technology could also be used as a tool in the fight against cancer, according to a new study. A team of researchers from University College London and the University of California, San Diego have developed an … Read more