Apr 15, 2021
Despite the same latitude on earth, Israel and South Africa have a wide variety of healthcare systems and approaches. Israel is a developed country with life expectancy within the first decile of the modern world. South Africa is a developing country where available resources and health care varies greatly across the country. Israeli policy makers have realized in 1999 the importance of early surgery for hip fractures as the single most important factor contributing to decreased mortality. After an introduction of a newer reimbursement system in 2004, and public advertising of early hip fracture treatment as a quality tag for hospitals, in more than 85% of the cases patients are operated on early (within 8 hours) with a significant decrease in mortality. However, other issues such as patient preparation, rehabilitation, and prevention are still at their beginning. South Africa deals with significant challenges with high energy hip fractures in a younger population, alth
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Healthcare industry leader brings deep expertise in AI, clinical workflows, and consumer-driven technology to drive value-based care cost, quality and outcomes for health systems
ST. LOUIS (BUSINESS WIRE) Lumeris today announced the appointment of Jean-Claude Saghbini as Chief Technology Officer and member of its Executive Committee. Jean-Claude brings to Lumeris more than 20 years of technology and healthcare experience, ranging from startups to Fortune 20 companies. He will lead the development of Lumeris’ next-generation integrated population health and managed care solutions and technologies to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce variability in care.
“Jean-Claude has both the passion and expertise to create scalable solutions that seamlessly integrate clinical workflows and advanced technologies like voice and AI to support point of care decisions, increase care quality, lower costs and improve patient safety,” said Mike Long, CEO and Chairman of Lumeris. “He wil
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Burnout among nurses, physicians and other healthcare workers was a pervasive problem even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but now that the U.S. has been living with the coronavirus for over a year, some on the front lines are starting to bow to the pressure.
This was exemplified in a recent survey from the American Nurses Foundation, which found that the pandemic is causing 92% of nurses to consider leaving the workforce. Nearly half cite insufficient staffing as one of the primary reasons.
In some ways, it was a crisis waiting to happen. The healthcare system wasn t prepared for a public health crisis of this magnitude, and the crisis highlighted fractures that had been building within the industry.
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