Non-Invasive Data Acquisition and Measurement in Bio-Medical Technology

2016 ◽  
pp. 27-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. G. Sandeep Patil ◽  
Ajit N. Babu ◽  
P. S. Ramkumar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Mathematical Techniques ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Technology Trends

Non-invasive medical measurements have expanded into several types of diagnostic and monitoring activities in health care delivery. They are being used in handling a number of non-infectious diseases such as diabetes, asthma, hypertension, congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia, etc., as well as infectious diseases such as cholera, malaria, etc.. Non-Invasive Medical Devices (NIMDs) are naturally preferred over invasive methods considering patient convenience, reduced patient risk, increased speed, and operational simplicity. However non-invasive methods are often perceived to be less accurate than their invasive counterparts. Over the last decade, technological advances and mathematical techniques have improved significantly, challenging this perception across the board. The chapter will discuss this important transformation in health care diagnostics and monitoring. The chapter will also provide further insight into some of the currently available non-invasive measurement products and explore how futuristic techniques and technology trends which have great potential to transform healthcare into a significantly different paradigm than the one we experience today.

Non-Invasive Data Acquisition and Measurement in Bio-Medical Technology

2017 ◽  
pp. 253-271
Author(s):  
H. G. Sandeep Patil ◽  
Ajit N. Babu ◽  
P. S. Ramkumar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Mathematical Techniques ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Technology Trends

Non-invasive medical measurements have expanded into several types of diagnostic and monitoring activities in health care delivery. They are being used in handling a number of non-infectious diseases such as diabetes, asthma, hypertension, congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia, etc., as well as infectious diseases such as cholera, malaria, etc. Non-Invasive Medical Devices (NIMDs) are naturally preferred over invasive methods considering patient convenience, reduced patient risk, increased speed, and operational simplicity. However non-invasive methods are often perceived to be less accurate than their invasive counterparts. Over the last decade, technological advances and mathematical techniques have improved significantly, challenging this perception across the board. The chapter will discuss this important transformation in health care diagnostics and monitoring. The chapter will also provide further insight into some of the currently available non-invasive measurement products and explore how futuristic techniques and technology trends which have great potential to transform healthcare into a significantly different paradigm than the one we experience today.

scholarly journals Technological Advances in Ozone and Ozonized Water Spray Disinfection Devices

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 3081
Author(s):  
Luis Alberto Breda Mascarenhas ◽  
Fabricia Oliveira Oliveira ◽  
Eduardo Santos da Silva ◽  
Laerte Marlon Conceição dos Santos ◽  
Leticia de Alencar Pereira Rodrigues ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Transmission Rate ◽  
Database Search ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Water Spray ◽  
Patent Classification ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Patent Documents

To control infectious diseases such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (Covid-19) that caused the current pandemic, disinfection measures are essential. Among building measures, disinfection chambers can help to decrease the transmission rate through the sanitizing capacity of the disinfectant used, which can thereby clean surfaces or humans. Out of existing biocides, ozone is considered one of the safest for humans, but one of the most powerful oxidizers, making the substance a better alternative as the biocidal solution in disinfection chambers. Analyses were carried out by using all patented documents related to disinfection chambers that used ozone as a disinfectant. A Derwent Innovation Index (DII) database search was undertaken to find these patents. Patent prospecting resulted in 620 patent documents that were divided into 134 patent families. There was no technology related to protective barriers for individuals, and the majority of patents in the retrieved data aimed at sterilizing medical devices and surfaces. Given that the specific Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) code for ozone dissolved in liquid was used in the methodology search, but not included among the 10 most used codes in the patents, the use of ozonized water may be an innovative approach in the technology landscape of sterilization chambers.

When You Reach a Fork in the Road, Take it: Science and Product Development as Linked Paths

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 141-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald T. Keusch
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
The Road ◽  
Great Hope ◽  
The World ◽  
Population Sizes ◽  
The One ◽  
Care Worker ◽  
Training Of Personnel

Increasingly, health is recognized as a major force for economic development; and because economic development is central to political and social stability, health is being looked at as the great hope for the future of the world, as population sizes and disparities among them increase. This perspective has been growing ever since the 1993 World Development Report was released by the World Bank, and it has fueled an intensive scrutiny of health care around the world, focusing on systems and health care delivery on the one hand, and equitable access to the products of research on the other hand. In the middle of all of is this is a concern about how health care (which must include both the training of personnel from the basic low level health care worker to the physician), and research and development (which must include the financing of research in academia and the development of products primarily in the private sector) are organized, and how they do or do not address inequities between and within populations and nations.

scholarly journals The Impact of COVID-19 on Future Orthopaedic Practice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rishi M. Kanna ◽  
S. Rajasekaran
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Care Team ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Broad Perspective ◽  
Orthopaedic Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Sustainability Challenges ◽  
The Impact

AbstractNo single event hitherto has stumped the world more significantly than the present Corona pandemic. In a short span of a few months, the world economy, healthcare, livelihood, and human survival have been direly threatened by the rapid increase in the number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities. While dispensations across the world are finding ways to tackle the pestilence, the medical fraternity faces a unique conundrum. On the one side, the health care team is at the forefront fighting the disease and saving patients from the grip of death. On the other side, the healthcare industry is facing a crisis in terms of safety of healthcare personnel, difficulties in online tele-healthcare, economic sustainability, challenges in healthcare education and other problems in safe health care delivery. The authors provide a broad perspective at the current pandemic and its implications on orthopaedic practice in the near future.

scholarly journals Emerging intraoral biosensors

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
pp. 3341-3356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianwu Wang ◽  
Jing Yu ◽  
Ting Wang ◽  
Chengcheng Li ◽  
Yan Wei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Health Care Monitoring

Intraoral biosensors are emerging as reliable medical devices for non-invasive health-care monitoring.

An Integrative Review of Global Nursing Workforce Issues

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara L. Nichols ◽  
Catherine R. Davis ◽  
Donna R. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Nursing Workforce ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Workforce Issues ◽  
Health Care Infrastructure ◽  
Global Health Care ◽  
Source Countries

Migration has been a way of life since the beginning of time, with migrants seeking other lands for personal and professional betterment. Today, in an era of globalization, trade agreements and technological advances, an increase in migration is inevitable. All professions have been affected, but the migration of health professionals, particularly nurses, has been the most dramatic. However, the migration of nurses across national and international borders comes with many challenges: systematic tracking of migration flows, harmonization of standards, recognition of professional credentials, fair and equitable distribution of the global health care workforce, and the effect of migration on the health care infrastructure of both source and destination countries. The international migration of nurses to address shortages in developed countries has, in some instances, left source countries with insufficient resources to address their own health care needs. The increasing complexity of health care delivery, aging of the population and the nursing workforce, and the escalating global demand for nurses create on-going challenges for policy makers. Strategically addressing global nursing workforce issues is paramount to sustaining the health of nations.

scholarly journals Ready or Not, Patients Will Present: Improving Urban Pandemic Preparedness

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syra Madad ◽  
Joshua Moskovitz ◽  
Matthew R Boyce ◽  
Nicholas V. Cagliuso ◽  
Rebecca Katz
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Medical Officer ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Care Delivery System ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Past Century

ABSTRACT Over the past century, society has achieved great gains in medicine, public health, and health-care infrastructure, particularly in the areas of vaccines, antibiotics, sanitation, intensive care and medical technology. Still, despite these developments, infectious diseases are emerging at unprecedented rates around the globe. Large urban centers are particularly vulnerable to communicable disease events, and must have well-prepared response systems, including on the front-line level. In November 2018, the United States’ largest municipal health-care delivery system, New York City Health + Hospitals, hosted a half-day executive-level pandemic response workshop, which sought to illustrate the complexity of preparing for, responding to, and recovering from modern-day infectious diseases impacting urban environments. Attendees were subjected to a condensed, plausible, pandemic influenza scenario and asked to simulate the high-level strategic decisions made by leaders by internal (eg, Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nursing Officer, and Legal Affairs) and external (eg, city, state, and federal public health and emergency management entities) partners across an integrated system of acute, postacute, and ambulatory sites, challenging players to question their assumptions about managing the consequences of a highly pathogenic pandemic.

The Adverse Event of Unaddressed Medical Error: Identifying and Filling the Holes in the Health-Care and Legal Systems

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 346-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan A. Liang
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Error ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
The United States ◽  
Diagnostic Techniques ◽  
Institute Of Medicine ◽  
Injury Causes ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Medical Delivery

Patient safety has assumed a prominent role on the policy agenda since the Institute of Medicine report To Err Is Human was released in November 1999. The report maintained that medical error is the predominant mechanism by which patients in the United States and around the world are injured. This finding, along with the report’s recommendation for a “systems” approach to reducing medical error, provided an extremely important insight into the operation of our medical delivery system. Clearly, while advances in medical technology, diagnostic techniques, and knowledge provide the foundation for saving lives, medical error has resulted in their loss. However, recognition that medical error is a primary cause of these avoidable patient injuries and deaths is a key one and may result in improvements within our system of health-care delivery as well as minimization of the emotional and financial toll that iatrogenic injury causes.

Profit and Health Care: Trends in Corporatization and Proprietization

1985 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Warren Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
The United States ◽  
Demographic Shift ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Policy And Planning

Throughout this century, profit has been an underlying motor force for health sector developments. However, as the concentration and centralization of health care delivery has proceeded in the United States, the pursuit of profit has become central. Even before the Reagan policy redirections raised “marketplace efficiency” as the supreme determinant of how the population's health needs are to be (or actually will not be) met, the rise of the nationwide proprietary hospital conglomerates over the last 15 years signified a new organization form. No longer camouflaged under an out-moded “not-for-profit” designation, the delivery of health care is now officially to be a “business” run for economic gain. Corporatization and proprietization trends have unmasked that profit regulates which people in which social groups get care. This article focuses upon developments leading toward this monopolization within health services delivery. Specific attention is given to historical tendencies that have set the stage for its extension under conditions of a continuing general economic crisis, conservative health policy redirections, and rapid industrialization of the health sector. Scientific and technological advances have reshaped professional roles and relationships, and increased bureaucratization of provider organizations. Coinciding with these are major actions by the corporate class in health policy and planning, and an impending demographic shift where aging population cohorts give rise to expanding “markets” of middle-class patients for proprietary health care firms.

scholarly journals How Sanctions Have Impacted Iranian Healthcare Sector: A Brief Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-63
Author(s):  
Hossein Akbarialiabad ◽  
Asghar Rastegar ◽  
Bahar Bastani
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Health Care Treatment

Many studies have shown the crippling effects of sanctions on the healthcare sector of different countries, including Iran. Long-standing sanctions against Iran escalated recently and severely limited commercial activities with Iran. The devastating consequences of these embargoes have affected all aspects of health care delivery in Iran, limiting the availability of critical medicines and medical devices, and negatively impacting primary health care, treatment of complex diseases including cancer, medical tourism, and medical education and research. The present novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has uncovered this long-standing crisis in the Iranian health care sector. In this communication, we briefly discuss selected aspects of these sanctions and their impact on the health care system and people of Iran during this critical time.

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