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Patient Comfort
Dear readers,
Comfortable and friendly environments that suit the needs of individual patients can accelerate recovery times and minimize hospital stays. In this e-mag you’ll read about new equipment that is being developed to enhance patient comfort. Artistic and architectural concepts are also being created to have a positive impact on patient well-being, anxiety, stress and pain resistance.
We also investigated the digital future for healthcare in Africa for this issue and talked to the CEO of Deepomatic who explained how artificial intelligence will create an “augmented worker/doctor.” Last but not least, don’t miss the op-ed on cybersecurity in 2019 or our presentation of two start-ups that attended the Arab Health show in January.
Today there is strong competition in the healthcare market across the globe. In addition to delivering excellent clinical outcomes, healthcare providers must meet the burgeoning expectations of patients with regard to their time spent in the hospital. This has seen a growing focus on patient comfort and the...
The French association Art dans la Cité (Art in the City), a world leader of art-in-the-hospital since the year 2000, recently developed a fully new concept for treatment rooms. This new system, called “Illuminart,” brings the patient into an immersive and interactive multimedia experience. The preliminary results are...
From screening apps for medical conditions to video games for vital training—digital technology is impacting healthcare in Africa, reaching remote locations and bringing cost-effective solutions to poverty-stricken areas. But the experts say it is important to ensure claims are based on evidence and local systems are...
Created four years ago, Deepomatic is a French company that develops artificial intelligence software enabling the creation of image recognition systems. Their goal? To create an “augmented worker” or “doctor” who can focus on the most interesting and valuable tasks while the machine handles the easiest cases where a high...
Estimated at €2.7 billion in 2014, the French e-health market could reach a value of €4 billion next year. Shared medical records, surgical robots, teleconsultations and online doctors are all illustrations of what the technological revolution is providing the sector. However, in order to effectively operate,...
“HospitaCité” is a joint project between the Belgian firm VK Architects & Engineers and the French company Michel Rémon & Associés to renovate the Saint-Luc University Clinic in Brussels in order to make it “more human.” The goal is to reconnect the hospital to the university town and use the architecture to...
Patients with the most common form of diabetes could see their treatment transformed by an artificial pancreatic pump controlled by a mobile phone.
A recent study found that blood glucose levels in people with type 2 diabetes significantly improved when using a pioneering insulin delivery system. Patients with the...
If 3D printing is set to be the great disrupter of global manufacturing, then bio-printing could be similarly transformative in the life sciences and regenerative medicine sectors. One company that sees great potential with the technology is American-Euro enterprise, CELLINK, which in the three years since it was...
Aetrex, a global company specializing in comfort and wellness footwear, recently attended the Arab Health show held in Abu Dabi, Dubai, at the end of January to share its real-time foot analysis and solution.
After seven decades of work in the orthopedic field, today this little company based in New Jersey has...
Italian start-up Optima Molliter has just launched an innovative foot-leg walker that can heal foot ulcers and improve a diabetic patient’s mobility. It won a CES award in January.
With its SBi Motus Smart foot-leg support, Optima Molliter wants to bring a “positive moving forward solution” to 50 million patients with...
Patients with diseases, disorders and conditions that cause significant tremors are now being given a helping hand to use a computer.
Germany-based Humanelektronik has just launched its AMAneo, an assistive mouse adapter which filters out shaky hand movements, explained marketing manager Ina Siemer. “This is a little...
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