Response to "Patient organisations should also establish databanks on medical complications"

Patient organisations should also establish databanks on medical complications.

In 1998 a lawyer working for the Dutch consumer organisation, Consumentenbond, suggested that hospitals, like hotels, should be classified according to the quality of service they provide. For the establishment of such a register it would of course be necessary to determine various parameters, including the incidence of complications occurring in each hospital. It did not take long before this ...

Should Priority Setting Also Be Concerned About Profound Socio-Economic Transformations? A Response to Recent Commentary

Contribution of rare disease patient organisations to medical education

Faced with about 7000 rare diseases, the limited knowledge of physicians is obvious, and deficits in diagnosis and therapy in consequence as well. Rare disease patients however, being usually confronted with only one disease or syndrome during their life time learn to cope with the symptoms, course and specificities of their disease and acquire expertise in diagnostics and treatments, as well a...

Framework to Assist Healthcare Delivery Organisations and Medical Device Manufacturers Establish Security Assurance for Networked Medical Devices

This paper introduces an assurance framework for networked medical device development. This work is being conducted to address the everincreasing concerns of medical device security with a specific focus on medical devices to be incorporated into IT networks. The framework utilises a Process Assessment Model and a Process Reference Model to address system development lifecycle processes, securi...

Analyzing Patient Records to Establish If and When a Patient Suffered from a Medical Condition

The growth of digital clinical data has raised questions as to how best to leverage this data to aid the world of healthcare. Promising application areas include Information Retrieval and Question-Answering systems. Such systems require an in-depth understanding of the texts that are processed. One aspect of this understanding is knowing if a medical condition outlined in a patient record is re...