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Articles by Olaf Lodbrok
Does precision medicine conflict with or complement value-based care?
I had the pleasure of attending HIMSS Asia-Pacific this year, where I talked about the importance of value in the delivery of care. Indeed, the continuously escalating healthcare cost added to a growing and aging population, resulting in a rise in chronic and multiple complex conditions to treat, have led to efforts to model and incentivize care based on value.
3 ways to see the bigger picture in radiology - and be a part of it
Seeing the big picture is core to the practice of medicine, from being able to link seemingly separated symptoms together to get a diagnosis, to ensuring the cost effectiveness of care. Radiologists are a huge part of the bigger picture of healthcare, as getting the correct diagnosis is key to any care planning.
How to deal with the growing complexity of clinical care “when you don’t know what you don’t know”
Imagine an 8-year-old girl enters a clinic with flu-like symptoms, like as a sore throat and muscle weakness. Familiar terrain, right? The clinician has this under control. Then imagine this: What if it’s not the flu? What if the patient actually has a rare, aggressive disease whose cause is not well understood in the medical community? Even worse, what if this disease — if not diagnosed and treated properly — could progress rapidly to respiratory failure, paralysis or even death?
Preventing diagnostic errors by uniting the clinical laboratory with direct patient care
Brandy Gunsolus has witnessed diagnostic errors as a patient as well as a professional. A decade ago, she started experiencing headaches, a rash – and repeated miscarriages. She went to different specialists for two years before one of them realized that the initial test she was given was not broad enough to cover the condition he suspected. At the same time, she was a laboratory manager for a large medical practice, working closely with a group of family medicine physicians.
3 trends that will impact pathology in 2019
“Medicine as war” is a metaphor commonly used in the field of healthcare. Whether it is a “war on diabetes,” a “war on HIV” or a “war on cancer,” government leaders often employ the analogy as a means to communicate their national health priorities and agendas. The implication of this conceptual metaphor is clear: the disease in question is the enemy while the entire healthcare system and its stakeholders jointly fight to prevent and overcome its destruction.
7 predictions for healthcare technology in 2019
In 2018, we witnessed unexpected mergers and partnerships, robust digital health innovations and continued policy shifts in the healthcare sector. Now, we predict 2019 will bring about significant changes in health IT infrastructure, with patient data at the center of it all. 1. Analytics will be the mainstay as health systems strive to optimize in-house clinical data.
Healthcare predictions: 2019
Healthcare predictions: 2019 By John Danaher, MD, President, Clinical Solutions and Olaf Lodbrok, SVP and GM, Precision Medicine, Clinical Solutions, Elsevier . Dec 27, 2018, 9:00AM As 2018 witnessed unexpected mergers and partnerships, robust digital health innovations and continued policy shifts in the healthcare sector, at Elsevier, we think 2019 will bring about significant changes in health IT infrastructure with patient data at the center of it all.
Q&A: German pharma start-up leader on the importance of knowledge in a fast-changing industry
Start-ups are the heart of innovation in the pharmaceutical biotech industry. In drug discovery and development, the early steps are crucial and have the potential to determine whether the start-up will make it and develop a life-altering cure. The Hive, an initiative for biotech and pharmaceutical start-up firms, was designed to empower early-stage development and generate stories that offer lessons on how R&D teams can overcome the bottlenecks and challenges that arise in the process.
Policymakers must keep their eyes on the prize of care.data
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