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Our team of editors discuss what they think about the current Next Generation Healthcare issues
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Is healthcare realising the benefits of IT?
Over the years have governments finally realised that IT can play an influential part in healthcare?23 Mar 2010
Focus Area: Disease Management
The importance of hand washing
Richard Verdiramo of HandGiene Corp. reveals why HCAI rates are decreasing, why and how they need to keep going down.
Fighting a new Cold War
The battle to provide good healthcare in post-Soviet Russia continues.
New research shows HCAIs cost more than previously thought
Recent research at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina has cast into question the figures usually cited for the cost of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs), saying the actual amount probably is higher.
Save lives: clean your hands
A call to action from Professor Didier Pittet, University Hospitals Geneva, Expert Lead for the WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge.
The great swine flu swindle?
A pandemic of devastating proportions it was to cause a global standstill as millions of people around the world died and millions more got sick. So what happened to swine flu? NGH investigates why something predicted to cause so much chaos proved to be a relatively harmless strain of flu.
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