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European Centre of Excellence in ultra high-field MRI
Pooling the expertise of an international group of technological, clinical and academic organizations, Brains Unlimited, located at the Maastricht Health Campus, is to bring research from concept to commercialization. Providing an integrated platform for the imaging community, Brains Unlimited will help scientists and companies to find the key to many common disorders, as well as gain more insight into the development of human behaviour. Scannexus is the vehicle for the management of the operation , as well as providing the interface for the development and delivery of projects utilizing the scanner facility. It operates an open access infrastructure that includes 3T, 7T and 9.4T human (whole body) MRI scanners – opening up huge opportunities in advancing the understanding of human anatomy, functionality and metabolism. Dedicated researchers and a network of scientific, clinical and application expertise (via local – Netherlands, Belgium and Germany – universities, research institutes and hospitals)
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation: lessons from a decade of use
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is the use of catheterized access via a blood vessel to replace the heart
Managing radiology risks
Risk management is an everyday part of a radiologist
Healthcare providers and social media
If the Internet and the Web were stepping stones to the Information Age at the end of the 20th century, social media seems to be opening the floodgates to the Connected World in the 21st.
Nearly everyone agrees that the impact of social media in the years to come is likely to be sweeping. A study by the University of California at San Diego found that rather than being a parallel world, Facebook is becoming an extension, even an
Outsourcing the hospital
The outsourcing of hospital services has become increasingly commonplace as way to control or reduce costs.
In the US, the need for outsourcing has intensified in recent years, in order to cope with cuts to Medicare after budget sequestration. This has intensified a backlog of pressure dating to the 1990s for healthcare reform and cost-effectiveness, which had already been driving hospitals to outsource.
On its part, Europe too has seen growth in the use of outsourcing over this period as a means to control healthcare spending. However, there are no European parallels to the relatively sweeping and immediate impact of the US budget sequestration.
Support functions typical outsourcing targets
Typically, the most common outsourcing targets for hospitals have consisted of support functions. These range from catering, housekeeping and laundry services to human resource management and IT.
Catering is among the areas where outsourcing is well established, and hospitals have become a key source of revenues. For US chain Au Bon Pain, hospitals account for more than 60 of its 280 outlets in the US. Its outlet at Long Island Jewish Medical Center is
Big data in healthcare: challenge or opportunity?
Thanks to the Web, the world is witnessing a deluge of data barely imaginable a decade ago.
Global data flows have increased fourfold over the past five years, and are expected to increase by a factor of three over the next five.
Networking giant Cisco speaks of the arrival of the Zettabyte Era at the end of 2015, when Internet traffic is expected to go over 1 billion terabytes (or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes). By 2017, the number of connected devices will be nearly three times as high as the world