Pharma IQ Glossary: Behavioural Health
Behavioural Health, as a general concept, refers to the reciprocal relationship between human behavior, individually or socially, and the well-being of the body, mind, and spirit, whether the latter are considered individually or as an integrated whole. Behavioural Health is more commonly used to describe a field of scientific study, academic proficiency and clinical healthcare practice.
E-Health in Europe
September 02 by Carina Healy & Alan NelsonYou don’t have to be an avid reader of the British Medical Journal to know that healthcare providers in the UK and throughout Europe are under increasing financial strain. A potent combination of chan...
10 Stats from the World Health Statistics Report 2013
May 30 by Pharma IQThe World Health Organisation’s Health Statistics report holds an almost mythical position in the public health community as the fountain of knowledge. It collects vast amounts of data on a huge selec...
7 Key Highlights About Socializing Health Care
December 03 by Shirley WilliamsUnder the umbrella of socializing health care, I recently had the opportunity to interview Colleen Young, Founder of Healthcare Social Media Canada and Engagement & Community Manager of the C...
Spread Thin Britain – Health Care Workers Increasingly Stretched
August 24 by Pharma IQ NewsAverage British health care employee works the equivalent of a seven and a half day weekOne in three say they are doing the work of at least two full-time people10% unable to take holiday this summer...
Value-Based Pricing in 2012 – Is it Still Worth the Trouble?
February 08 by Stuart Carroll & Alasdair WilliamsAs the old aphorism goes, a New Year means a new beginning. It also provides an opportunity for all of us to make New Year resolutions – promises we make to one or more lasting personal goals, p...
Portuguese Hospitals Block Access to New Medicines as Retail Drug Sector Expected to Meet Savings Goal
September 29 by Tania Rodrigues, an analyst at IHS Global InsightAccess to expensive medicines is becoming increasingly difficult in Portuguese public hospitals, while savings with retail pharmacy expenditure are expected to be better than projections in the Memora...
Healthcare IT: UK a European Leader of Investment
August 03 by Pharma IQOver the past few years, the UK healthcare IT market has grown exponentially to reach an estimated value of almost $3 billion (£1.83 billion) in 2011, making it the second largest in Europe after Germ...
Some Secrets to Success of iPad Application in E-Health
July 19 by Helen Winsor"Most organisations looked at security over the last couple of years and personal devices wouldn’t have been allowed if it’s portable and encrypted. So we’ve turned things around there. Obviously corp...
EU: RENEWING HEALTH Update 2011
July 07 by Andrea CharlesClaus Duedal Pedersen, Head of Centre for Clinical Innovation Odense University Hospital speaks to Andrea Charles from Pharma IQ, about effectively utilising telemedicine and increasing pan-Europ...
The Potential for EMR to Reduce Medical Errors Needs More Exploration
July 06 by Andrea CharlesHealthcare providers across the EU are looking forward to the day when e-health collaboration is a reality and data can flow freely yet securely across institutional and international bounda...
Health Technology Assessment Goes Online
June 22 by Pharma IQ NewsPharma IQ is pioneering new HTA discussion platform with launch of the first ever HTA Online event - Global HTA and CER Forum, which will take an innovative form of 12 online session over the course o...
The Role of Cessation Services in Quitting Smoking and Future Directions
May 12 by Farouk SaeedWith over 4000 chemicals in a single puff of a cigarette (60 of which are carcinogens)[i], it should come as no surprise why smoking is the single leading cause of preventable illness and premature de...