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Healthcare, like other services, requires getting appropriate expertise to the place where it is needed at the right time. Requirements like these become critical when a patient faces a sudden and unpredictable life-threatening condition. The latter is a near-routine occurrence in a hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU). Still, a host of factors make it impossible […]

New service and business models are challenging the traditional role of a hospital – as a place where sick people are taken to get better. Instead, a growing body of evidence suggests that the key mission of future hospitals will be to help people to avoid falling ill, and to manage those that do in […]

Conventional or B-mode ultrasound has been used as a diagnostic imaging tool for over four decades. Over the last few years, however, ultrasound systems have witnessed a blizzard of developments in their underlying technology. This has catalysed a significant change in the patterns of ultrasound usage vis-a-vis other, older imaging modalities, especially in terms of […]