Are personal accessories safe in hospital settings?

Are Personal Health Records Safe? A Review of Free Web-Accessible Personal Health Record Privacy Policies

BACKGROUND Several obstacles prevent the adoption and use of personal health record (PHR) systems, including users' concerns regarding the privacy and security of their personal health information. OBJECTIVE To analyze the privacy and security characteristics of PHR privacy policies. It is hoped that identification of the strengths and weaknesses of the PHR systems will be useful for PHR user...

Are tracheostomized patients safe on regular hospital wards?

MR‐safe personal radiation dosimeters

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is being rapidly integrated for cancer treatments-such systems are referred to as MRI-guided radiation therapy (MRIgRT). As the magnet of an MRI scanner is always on, the presence of a strong static magnetic field from the MRI scanner during radiotherapy delivery presents new challenges. One of the challenges is that a personal radiation dosimeter used to estima...

Guide to Safe Medical Practice in Outpatient Settings During COVID-19 Pandemic

  Background and aims: Presently, human kind is challenging with a highly contagious disease, COVID-19, caused by a newly emerged virus, SARS-COV2. Health care providers are at the front line of fighting, as well as, at the risk of getting infected.  Many attempts have been made to combat the disease are mostly focused on hospital settings rather than outpatient settings so far. Therefore, add...

Are we really in safe hands? How safe is safe?