by Dianne Bayley | Jun 8, 2022 | Innovation, Uncategorized
By Kathy Gibson – Of the many lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps the most important is that the centuries-old model of in-hospital patient care doesn’t scale well, is expensive to maintain, uses scarce resources and still doesn’t necessarily give...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 1, 2020 | Innovation
Blockchain’s distributed-ledger functionality lets multiple users verify information, helping to ensure the integrity of records and transactions. But just as blockchain can be used to verify Bitcoin transaction records, it can also ensure that medicines are delivered...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 16, 2020 | Innovation
Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital worldwide have an urgent need for doctors and nurses. Huge numbers of retired doctors and nurses have been called up – 20,000 in the UK’s NHS alone. Medical and nursing students are also being called up to the front...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 13, 2020 | Sustainability
Our world has changed, writes Prof Francis Petersen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State. The aspects that we have accepted as daily occurrences, and those that we have taken for granted, are no longer possible. Anxiety and uncertainty have...
