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Nursing informatics is a specialized field which combines different sources of science including nursing, information and computer science to manage, communicate and integrate the data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in our daily nursing care and practice. It plays a crucial role for enhancing h...

In today's Chinese healthcare system, there is a serious challenge of uneven resource distribution. To address this challenge, healthcare reform has been focused on the establishment of medical communities and alliances, and implementation of tiered diagnosis and treatment, in an attempt to shif...

The Hospital Authority (HA), with a budget of HK$200 billion from the Hong Kong Government is in the midst of delivering a significant portfolio of 16 mega hospital and other healthcare projects under the First Hospital Development Plan (HDP). These projects range in scale and complexity with many c...

Intensive care is a vital service in the public health care system, providing critical care to patients with life-threatening illnesses. The Intensive Care Unit Outcomes Monitoring and Improvement Programme (ICUOMP) was commissioned by the Coordinating Committee in Intensive Care (COC(ICU)) in 2015....

Arranging clinical placements (CP) for nursing students is one of the crucial tasks undertaken by the Nursing Services Department in Hospital Authority (HA). It is essential for students to fulfill the Nursing Council's requirements for clinical placement before their registration or enrollment. As ...

Child & adolescent (C&A) mental health service demonstrates a growing demand in Hong Kong in recent 10 years as reflected by the increasing trend of SOPD new case waiting time though various new service models have been incorporated. As a result, there was a great demand for allied health training s...

Introduction:Quality assurance (QA) of linear accelerators (LINACs) in radiotherapy is diverse, and has to be performed on several periodic bases (i.e., daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly) and on-demand (i.e., after machine maintenance). An integrated and centralized web-based QA system i...

Around 2015, with the vigorous rise of the internet economy in China mainland, "internet + healthcare" became a hot topic. Social capital has poured into the provision of internet healthcare services, public hospitals, as the main providers of healthcare services in China mainland, mostly remained i...

中国与欧洲医院趋势在发展维度上呈现出不同的特征。从城市观、空间观、功能观、环境观、未来观等五个维度来看，中国医院呈现出院城一体化、空间复合化、资源中心化、环境生态化、运维智慧化的特征；欧洲医院呈现出院...

Overview:In this session, Bernard will explore the legal implications of nurse-led (non-steroidal) intravitreal injection clinics. He will discuss patient selection, clinical management, protocols, informed consent, documentation, and liabilities of healthcare team members. Insights from internation...

Generative AI represents a sophisticated branch of artificial intelligence technology, renowned for its ability to produce new and original content encompassing images, text, audio, and video. Unlike conventional systems that simply fetch existing information, generative AI exhibits creative flair, ...

We are glad that our Hybrid theatre with intraoperative CT was installed in 2022, this made a tremendous move to our comprehensive neurovascular service in HKEC. Nevertheless, we are not the only users, other stakeholders include anesthetists particularly pain team, vascular surgeons, orthopedic sur...

Autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions are clinically diverse and their etiological mechanisms are poorly understood. To inform prognosis and generate intervention opportunities we need a better understanding of causal pathways. In my talk, I will describe how our research has confirmed th...

Texture modified diet is commonly prescribed to individuals with swallowing difficulties, with the aim to maintain swallow safety, nutrition and quality of life. It is important that the texture modified diet is accurately prepared in terms of its consistencies (thickness), hardness, adhesiveness (s...

Innovation is pivotal in overcoming the multifaceted challenges inherent in healthcare delivery. This presentation offers an overview of the prevailing challenges in healthcare, the strides made in innovation, and illuminating examples from CUHK Medical Center (CUHKMC).The discussion will first exam...

In a territory-wide school-based epidemiologic survey conducted on children and adolescents ages 6-17 years from September 2019 to June 2023 in HKSAR, a multi-level stratified random sampling process was adopted to yield a representative and inclusive sample constituting of mainstream schools, schoo...

Psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with psychotic features, present complex challenges in mental health care, characterized by symptoms like hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking. The origins of psychosis are diverse, stemming from genetic, environmental, ...

We are aware that worldwide there is lack of organs and today we can only achieve the 10% of the global needs in transplantation, even using living donation from liver and kidney because we have only 38.000 cadaveric donors worldwide per year. What are the solutions? Our proposal is that nations sh...

The healthcare sector is a major contributor to climate change, which causes harm to populations both locally and globally. Hospitals are part of the solution. Leaders must develop the competencies to engage key stakeholders on this common journey and contribute to the transformation towards low-car...

• The presentation provides a overview of localisation of immersive VR technology inhealthcare, i.e., medical training and rehabilitation training, with case study illustration• Medical training: from practising in educational institutions to on-job training inhospitals, how the immersive VR tec...

Hospital Building Services Engineering Systems play a pivotal role in assuring resilience of hospital operation. These complicated and inter-dependent engineering systems comprising: electrical, heating, ventilation and air conditioning, fire services, medical gas, plumbing and drainage system are s...

With the ever increasing demand and aging population, it is envisioned that adoption of AI technology will support Hospital Authority to tackle various strategic service challenges and deliver improvements. HA has setup AI Strategy and begun setup process & infrastructure to support AI development a...

By 2030, the world will be short of approximately 18 million health workers - a fifth of the workforce needed to keep healthcare systems going. Global healthcare leader and award-winning author, Professor Mark Britnell, uses his unique insights from advising governments, executives, and clinicians i...

In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on enhancing healthcare efficiency and patient satisfaction, particularly in the field of day case surgery. This presentation aims to explore strategies for improving day case surgery delivery in Hong Kong, focusing on key areas such as patient sele...

Digital pathology is a technique which is already transforming the way cancer diagnostic services are delivered in the United Kingdom, with digital slides providing a flexible, transferable diagnostic tool that can improve patient safety, service efficiency, service quality and staff recruitment and...

Kwan KCP (1), Lau SM (1), Yung CMJ (1), Lo HK (2), Chan HL (1), Hui CWC (1), Yip E (2), Ip MW (1), Tam D (2), Yeung J (2), Wan S (2)(1) Department of Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT), Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital(2) Physiotherapy Department, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern HospitalIntroduction...

The design of China's health security system balances fairness and efficiency, providing reliable medical care and public health services to the world's most populous country. The number of public hospitals in China is huge, and high-level medical personnel are concentrated, making them the main for...

Since the introduction of the Transformer model in 2017, BERT and GPT (Generative Pre-trained Model) have emerged as the two main technologies within large language models, quickly drawing widespread research and industry interest. The launch of ChatGPT, in particular, has sparked a new wave of enth...

Unlock the future of healthcare learning: Embrace technology, empower professionals, and elevate patient care.In the ever-changing landscape of healthcare, learning trends are crucial to ensuring that healthcare professionals are equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the challeng...

Donor organ shortages is a recurrent theme in transplantation. Conventionally, marginal donor organs would be discarded. The use of marginal or extended criteria organs is one way to increase the donor pool.Machine perfusion enable the safer use of selected extended criteria organs after assessment....