Integrating specialist healthcare delivery to optimise patient outcomes

Optimising load to optimise outcomes.

Optimising Our lOading The human body is attuned to respond to various forms of mechanical loading and that this is perhaps the primary tool in the repertoire of sports medicine professionals. If exercise is the intervention of choice for a range of conditions, we must appreciate the mechanisms that underpin adaptation so we can refine our prescription and better benefit patients. The current i...

Microemulsion Capsule Technology to Optimise Drug Delivery

Working with patients to optimise cataract outcomes

One of the delights of ophthalmology is to witness the joy on the face of a patient with cataract when the dressing is taken off and sight has been restored. Unfortunately, for some patients, the result does not live up to their expectations. Despite cataract surgery being one of the most successful surgical interventions available, there is evidence that the visual outcome of cataract surgery ...

Capturing and Integrating Patient Healthcare Information to Improve Accessibility

The healthcare industry has faced challenges in adopting new computer technology to track patient data. Changes in the industry have made it more important than ever to adapt information infrastructures so that patient records and related data are accessible to a variety of healthcare professionals, regardless of their locations or the types of systems they use. In 1995, 3M Company Health Infor...

Collecting, Integrating, and Disseminating Patient-Reported Outcomes for Research in a Learning Healthcare System

INTRODUCTION Advances in health policy, research, and information technology have converged to increase the electronic collection and use of patient-reported outcomes (PROs). Therefore, it is important to share lessons learned in implementing PROs in research information systems. CASE DESCRIPTION The purpose of this case study is to describe a novel information system for electronic PROs and ...