Smarter Systems Help Busy Doctors Remember

Margaret McCartney: Remember that doctors are more trusted than journalists.

In the past few months the Daily Mail has excoriated GPs for letting “millions” down by being “shut in the afternoon,” for “failing an estimated 32 000 cancer patients,” and for “failing to diagnose patients with early dementia.” It often does this on the front page in large font, and I know that these headlines hurt many GPs who work long and hard under intolerable pressure. Free speech is imp...

Junior doctors turn to nurses for help.

NURSES AROUND the UK have been helping some 5,000 newly qualified doctors who began their first house jobs in August to cope with the initial pressure of their workload.

Identity cards help patients identify their doctors

Patients admitted to hospital are immediately overloaded with information from staff in A&E, to subsequent acute medical and inpatient wards. Essential details are conveyed to patients at each step, including diagnosis, management and identification of various team members involved in their care. An initial audit within our South London hospital revealed only one third of patients admitted onto...

Drug delivery systems in urology--getting "smarter".

5 Smarter Products User - Centered Systems Engineering

The introduction of user-centered systems engineering (SE) methodology and design principles to design smarter products has been inspired by the theory of smart environments developed in Germany (Bullinger and Scheer 2003; De Jong and Vermeulen 2003; Scheer and Spath 2004). Intelligent and integrated systems have affected industrial and economic growth in many nations. These developments have s...