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Physician burnout is being increasingly recognized worldwide as a serious threat to medical practice across all specialties with increasing prevalence. Burnout is a spectrum of clinical syndrome that was first categorized into 3 dimensions by Maslach as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a...

Background: Burnout poses great challenge to the healthcare workers’ well-being and healthcare system’s quality and safety globally. A mindfulness-based intervention, Mindful Practice (MP), has been demonstrated to alleviate burnout of physicians in the United States and Spain.Objectives: Sinc...

In his presentation, Prof Zhong will cover:- public health measures adopted- social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic- different strategies aopted by different countries and regions- vaccine development in China- big challenges to the control of pandemic by the mutation of COVID-19in relation to the c...

- What is cyber insurance and what is it providing to deal with these “new” risks? - Why traditional insurance doesn’t trigger.- What are we seeing generally with customers / buyers in Asia.- How is the insurance market dealing with the surge in ransomware events or what other risks are raisi...

For people with severe/profound and multiple disabilities, managing the basic necessities of daily life often poses myriad challenges. Despite great odds, advances in assistive technology are making a difference in these individuals' lives. Advances in using body signals and micro-movements, e.g. EM...

With the support from the Central People’s Government, the Hong Kong SAR Government decided in August 2020 to construct a temporary hospital as a designated hospital for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, situated at the Hong Kong International Airport AsiaWorld-Expo Phase 2 site. Its purpose is ...

For several decades there have been concerns that there may be a connection between workplace interruptions and an increased chance of errors in worker performance. The possibility of such a connection is of particular concern in the healthcare workplace, where surgical or medication errors, for exa...

Recovery journey of psychiatric patients is rarely simple and straightforward. Due to complexity of mental illness, functional level and carer support are important aspects besides conventional biopsychosocial domains. Treatment plans aim at functional recovery with community reintegration. Taking t...

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the 3rd most prevalent cancer for men in Hong Kong, with >60% increase in the number of new cases in the past decade (1369 cases in 2008 vs 2204 cases in 2018). Traditionally, diagnosis pathway of PCa begins with an abnormal serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and/ or an a...

The health and quality of life of patients with spinal cord injury can be greatly improved by appropriate selection from a wide range of currently available assistive technology for preventing complications and for restoring function that might otherwise be lost for life. Furthermore, devices develo...

Organs and tissue transplantations are the only curative therapy for major organ and tissue failures and loss, but are limited by the donor supply and often severe immune complications. Some of these obstacles may potentially be bypassed using cell-based regenerative therapy. Indeed, recent developm...

Ransomware and data breaches are increasingly representing the highest cyber threats facing healthcare companies. In 2020, PwC Hong Kong tracked multiple cyber incidents involving healthcare organizations where victims’ data was spilled online or the operations ground to a halt due to human-opera...

Chimeric antigen receptor T cell (Car-T) therapies are transformative therapeutics that are highly effective in treating relapsed and refractory B cell malignancies. Car-T products directed against CD19 are now approved internationally for B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, Aggressive lymphoma (D...

Paediatric critical care medicine is a high subspecialized discipline. A paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is an area within a hospital specializing in the care of critically ill infants, children, teenagers, and at time young adults. A PICU is staffed by PICU physicians, nurses, and respiratory...

Cardiac rehabilitation has been shown to be a cost-effective treatment in reducing mortality and morbidity in patients with acute myocardial infarction or other heart diseases. However, the uptake of this evidence-based therapy is unfortunately low in Hong Kong and other parts of the world. The upta...

The World Medical Association’s Declaration of Geneva, recited and vaguely remembered by medical students and young doctors in place of the Hippocratic Oath these days, says:“I will attend to my own health, well-being, and abilities in order to provide care of the highest standard”.How the two...

In face of the rapidly ageing population, the demand for elderly and medical services has been rising in recent years. To cope with the ever-increasing service demand, the Hospital Authority’s annual expenditure is expected to continue to increase while it struggles with manpower shortage. Thus, t...

Number of patients with amputation is expected to be doubled by 2050. Traditional prosthesis is limited in its use by the frequent problems related to the socket-stump interface. Osseointegration is implantation of endoprosthesis into stump bone and connection to prosthesis with a connector. It is a...

Humans have cognitive limitations (e.g. limited attentional capacity) but also great capabilities (e.g. ability to divide attention between certain tasks). Human Factors (HF) is a multi-disciplinary subject to study humans’ limitations and capabilities in their work environment; the aim is to enha...

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic to the world is unprecedented bold in terms of intensity and duration. Starting in January 2020, Hong Kong has experienced four waves of COVID-19 outbreak over 16 months, approaching a total of 12,000 cases. Hong Kong is a place that admit all confirmed cases of COVID...

Following with digital transformation of the healthcare industry, healthcare organisations are changing the way of serving patients via adopting advanced digital technologies including Artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (IoT), while they also become an att...

The first part of the presentation will provide an overview of the robots currently being used in Tin Shui Wai Hospital (TSWH), and how the service robots enhance overall operation effectiveness.Service robots have widely been used in healthcare setting in some countries. They can be used to deliver...

COVID-19 pandemic was heralded by the 2003 SARS epidemic which led to the discovery of human and civet SARS-CoV-1, bat SARS-related-CoVs, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)-related bat CoV HKU4 and HKU5, and other novel animal coronaviruses. The suspected animal-to-human jumping of 4 betacorona...

Over the years there have been adverse incidents involving injuries and deaths, and many of them have been attributed to human errors and individual recklessness. Attention is paid to the individuals because they are typically the final link in an incident chain. Indeed, effective and safe health ca...

The prevalence of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) has been decreasing in Hong Kong since the implementation of the universal hepatitis B vaccination in new born in 1988. However, there is still a significant proportion of patients with CHB progressing to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)....

For health care professionals, a strong sense of collegial community lies at the center of personal and professional well-being, resilience, and flourishing at work. It is also connected to the quality of care delivered by medical teams and the quality of caring experienced by those who receive care...

Paediatric palliative care (PPC) is a new development in Hong Kong. Hospital Authority set up the first PPC service at Hong Kong Children’s Hospital in 2019, with a designated team of doctor, nurses and social worker. Children with cancer is the major target group at the current phase of PPC devel...