September 3, 2019
care delivery

Innovations in Care Delivery

Let´s Start with the Definition The integrated management and delivery of quality and safe health services to people in need, along the continuum of disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, disease-management, rehabilitation and palliative care services, through the different levels and sites of care within the health system, is the universally accepted […]
July 18, 2019
value-based care

Healthcare: Shift from Volume to Value

Healthcare is an expanding and complex industry. The ageing population, higher prevalence of chronic diseases, advances in digital technologies, highly efficacious and expensive drugs have led to an increase in the healthcare demand and expenditures. The global health care spending projected at $ 10.05 Trillion by 2022 represents 2018-2022 CAGR […]
July 10, 2019
3D Printing

Body Printing or Printing Your Body: A Short Introduction To Bioprinting

Biofabrication can be defined as the production of complex living and non-living biological products from raw materials such as living cells, molecules, extracellular matrices, and biomaterials. – Mironov et al., 2015. First things first…What´s 3D printing? The standard two-dimensional (2D) printing is the act of depositing ink on a 2D […]
June 17, 2019
Rx Usage

Medicine Use and Spending in the USA

The latest report from the IQVIA™ Institute for Human Data Science presents the 2018 Medicines Use and Spending in the U.S. The report provides extensive metrics on drug usage and its cost to the US Healthcare system. We discuss some of the interesting findings of this report. 2018 witnessed a […]