It’s hard enough to lose weight, but there are also challenges that go along with trying to get fit. To help, it’s good to understand what some of the obstacles to fitness that people experience. Here are three common challenges people face when getting fit. 1. Not Keeping A Proper Sleep Schedule Hormones play an important role in maintaining fat and muscle. Not getting enough sleep by staying up late or keeping an improper...
Digitising paper and automating the workflow around the Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Assessment process promises to help reduce Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC); improve the quality and reliability of patient service; and, drive-up productivity. An efficient, transparent and reliable approach to assessments will be fundamental to NHS England saving a forecasted £850 million from CHC spend by 2021, says IEG4’s Simon Williams. It’s six months since Matthew Swindells and Professor Jane Cummings from NHS England wrote...
If healthcare were like popular music, most current EMR implementations could be compared to Top 40 radio, they focus on nothing but the latest hits. And while the hits may be fine for music, clinicians need more than the ‘hits’ to fully understand and diagnose their patients. To take the analogy further, clinicians need the entire back catalogue of albums to get a 360-degree patient view — which can be a challenge in today’s electronic...
Though one enters a hospital precisely for treatment of illness, the risk of further acquiring a disease does not stop at the front desk or at your doctor’s door. Rather, there is a chance of that risk magnifying because of a patient’s exposure to a wider variety of bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens. Both public and private hospitals are enjoined to address not only treatment but also the task of disease prevention. According to a...
The Androgenic alopecia is a scientific name of genetic hair loss, which affects both men and women in the form of male pattern baldness and female pattern baldness. The genetic cause of hair loss is due to the combined effect of the hormone di-hydro testosterone that is a converted form of male hormone testosterone with the effect of the 5-alpha reductase an enzyme in the body. The symptoms of male pattern baldness in the male...
While being an excellent physician is enough to make your current patients happy, it does not in itself help to grow a practice. When potential new patients look for healthcare providers, they have a world of options and telling physicians apart is not an easy task. Decisions get made based on what people say, both in person and online. This is where patient feedback and reviews come into play. According to the latest numbers, 72%...
Digitization is causing a quantum shift in the quality of India’s Healthcare today. With a current worth of $100 billion, the Indian Healthcare is growing rapidly at 23% CAGR to touch a record-breaking $280 billion by 2020. Ranked among the three largest healthcare markets in the world, India has a massive count of 1,96,312 hospitals. With a population of 1.3 billion, India has only 1 million Allopathic doctors to treat them. Over 79% of the...
The future of healthcare is inextricably linked to the future of technology, and there are many extraordinary developments taking place in the world that will shape the future of the healthcare industry in numerous huge and surprising ways. While it is impossible to list all of the different ways in which the healthcare industry is likely to change as a result of developments in technology – from cloud service providers in india helping to improve...
More and more patients need hospital care, whether it’s in an accident and emergency department, seeking cancer treatment, or for planned routine operations, the steady increase is a concern. The NHS collects and processes an immense amount of data, all of which can be analysed and actioned to improve the experience for patients. There has been a growing movement and focus on how technology can be used to improve services and ensure patient care is...
For people who wear contact lenses, caring for them should be just as important as caring for your body, any other aspect of your health, and your home. Below are five tips to guide you for contact lens care, and several websites to assist you as well. Following these steps will allow you to keep on top of your eye care so you can purchase contact lenses online with ease. Kierstan Boyd says that the...
