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Telehealth visits more than doubled in March 2020, and this was a welcomed change as doctors rated is the most promising technology during COVID-19. However, this also presented clinicians with the biggest test of translating compassionate care into practice in order to ensure patients are given appropriate care even in the most complex cases. Experts discussed how clinicians can continue to deliver quality care, despite the challenges of disruptive pathways, with the required level of compassion during the Combining Digital with Compassionate Care session at the HIMSS21 European Health Conference on 9 June.
The speakers were: Dr Alec Price-Forbes, consultant rheumatologist and lead for EPR (UHCW and CCIO for Coventry and Warwickshire s Health and Care Partnership (STP); Dr Christie Watson, professor of Medical and Health Humanities, University of East Anglia, UK; Dr Allan Wardhaugh, clinical lead, national clinical framework, office of chi
“The CareDx sessions at the EFI meeting this year will tackle innovative subjects in the field of Immunogenetics and Transplantation, which will have great impact on improving patient care and transplant outcomes!” said Moheeb Al-Awwami, Director, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The second symposium,
Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA as Biomarker to Assess Active Rejection & Treatment Response in Kidney Allografts – Caner
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sal, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Value of dd-cfDNA as a Surveillance Biomarker in Heart Transplant – Maria Generosa Crespo-Leiro, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña (CHUAC), Spain
Quality Approach and Adoption of NGS based Chimerism Solution in a French Laboratory – Mathilde Cherel, EFS Rennes, Blood Bank of Brittany, France
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Saudi healthcare revenue management system to undergo major transformation
RIYADH, 3 days ago As part of Saudi Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Programme, the Ministry of Health is transforming from being an all-in-one payer, provider and regulator of health services to being predominantly a regulator, says KPMG. KPMG’s latest report on Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) in the Saudi healthcare sector marks a further step in the kingdom’s healthcare transformation. The report highlighted that, with the introduction of new service provider reimbursement reforms underway in the public sector in Saudi Arabia and the plan to standardise across the public and private sectors, kingdom’s healthcare providers will need to develop new capabilities to enable them to be self-sufficient.
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