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Revolutionising Healthcare by Empowering Patients to Innovate

A growing stream of literature argues for a more active role for patients and caregivers in healthcare delivery, namely in…

New Models of Health

Last year in England alone there were approximately 57 million failed attempts to book general practitioner appointments.

Editor’s Pick: Democratising Healthcare: The Role of eHealth Technologies in Driving Patient Participation

Digital technologies are changing how we practice and experience healthcare. This review focusses on the role of eHealth technologies in facilitating…

Personalised Medicine with Companion Diagnostics: The Intercept of Medicines and Medical Devices in the Regulatory Landscape

Personalised medicine, with the aid of companion diagnostics, is a burgeoning field. The potential benefits of personalised medicine…

Self-Management in Epilepsy Care: Background, Barriers, and Solutions

Self-management programmes for epilepsy have been developed and studied for several decades but have proven difficult to implement and sustain…

The Prevalence of Item Construction Flaws in Medical School Examinations and Innovative Recommendations for Improvement

The purpose of this study was to calculate the prevalence and nature of item construction flaws within one large medical school and to identify several…

Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy Combined with Optical Clearing Methods as a Novel Imaging Tool in Biomedical Research

In the past decade, imaging has advanced to become a crucial tool in fundamental and biomedical research and it has become increasingly important…

Virtual Reality Assisted Anaesthesia During Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: Report of 115 Cases

Objective: The utility of virtual reality (VR) pain management to reduce visceral or autonomic responses is presented in 115 cases…

Microbiome: The Missing Link in Neuropsychiatric Disorders

The relationship between intestinal microbiota and the brain has been the focus of attention of the scientific world in recent years; >90% of the…

What do we mean by Innovation in Healthcare?

To better understand what may be considered ‘innovative’ in healthcare, we suggest criteria for innovation and identify potential challenges to newly introduced innovations in the field.