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For patients with amputation, apart from having to go through and accept the impact of losing a limb either from trauma, tumor or peripheral vascular disease, many have to endure the continuous pain which feels like it is coming from the loss limb i.e., phantom limb pain. While the pain may vary in ...

The first ever described case of spinal cord injury was dated as early as 2500 BCE in ancient Egyptian medical texts. During that time, SCI was considered to be an ailment so devastating it was “not to be treated”. In the modern era, the study of spinal cord injury represents a rapidly advancing...

Resilience course in medical education is not about teaching one to be resilient. It is about building an open and adaptive platform to work with students on the continuing call for personal growth and resilience building as part of a holistic university education for future doctors. Medical knowled...

Smart Hospital development is one of the strategic development directions in Hospital Authority. Kowloon East Cluster(KEC) starts smart hospital development since the year of 2017. Smart Operation Theater (Smart OT) is one of the smart core team in KEC smart hospital development. Patient safety and ...

With a view to augmenting workflow efficiency and improving patient safety, Smart Ward initiatives strike to achieve AI & Automation, Internet of Medical Thing (IoMT) and Paperless Ward Round.It is worth attaching our attention to the introduction of ‘e-Vital Signs’, which refers to the digitali...

The CUHK Medical Centre (CUHKMC) is the only university-owned private teaching hospital in Hong Kong with the social mission of bridging the service gaps between private and public healthcare. The CUHKMC also aims to become an academic medical centre of excellence through its strategic partnership w...

Despite of public health measures, Hong Kong has experienced four epidemic waves of COVID-19, resulting in 11,468 infected cases and 205 deaths as of March 2021. Our team has established Nanopore MinION and Illumina Miseq platform for whole-genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 during the early stage of t...

In the past, treatment of chronic hepatitis C (HCV) infection required the combination therapy of pegylated interferon and ribavirin which was associated with many side effects and had a success rate of about 50%. As a result, the uptake of treatment was rather low. Early treatment of chronic HCV in...

SARS-CoV2 first emerged in Dec 2019 in Wuhan and rapidly developed into a COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020. The clinical spectrum of COVID-19 ranges from asymptomatic infection, mild, moderate, severe to critical illness.SARS-CoV2 is highly infectious with high viral loads peaking during day 2-4 ...

NTWC Allied Health (AH) clinical service is greatly affected under the Covid-19 pandemics. Therefore, the application of telecare service in Allied Health is catalyzed in order to cope with the service gap during the pandemics. The development of telemedicine of NTWC AH based on three objectives, na...

The vision and objective of smart city is to improve how we live by integration and application of technologies in our daily living. Analogously, the vision of smart hospital and healthcare in TSWH/NTWC is to apply information and operational technologies to improve our care to our patients. Initiat...

Over recent years there has been increasing recognition of the importance of “keeping the doctor healthy”. This has never been more important than in the past year when we have face the additional stress of the COVID pandemic This presentation will- discuss why it is imperative to have a health...

The Hong Kong Government recognises the public health threat posed by viral hepatitis. To provide a comprehensive strategy for reducing the public health burden, the Steering Committee on Prevention and Control of Viral Hepatitis (SCVH) formulated the Hong Kong Viral Hepatitis Action Plan 2020 – 2...

Over the last 30 years the Hospital Authority (HA) has developed extensive digital health capabilities in the world class Clinical Management System (CMS) to support the delivery of high quality healthcare services. However the growing healthcare demands of an aging population, ever increasing compl...

The Covid-19 pandemic which commenced in December 2019 has resulted in more than 1.36 million confirmed cases, 2.9 million deaths and affected 192 countries. This pandemic of the century has once again reminded us the importance of infection control measures, research in the development of antiviral...

Universal HBV immunization programme for newborns in HK has started since 1988. The programme consists of administration of HB immunoglobulins (Ig) to babies born to HBsAg+ve mothers together with the 1st dose of HBV vaccine upon delivery. The 2nd & 3rd doses of HBV vaccines will be given mainly in ...

Advanced therapy products are mainly cell- or tissue-based products and gene products. Their therapeutic potential is promising but, at the same time, their complexity and rapid development also demand proper regulation. In the past 15 years, many jurisdictions started to develop regulatory regimen ...

Smart Clinic is one of the initiatives of Smart Hospital in Tin Shui Wai Hospital (TSWH). It includes a variety of innovative projects integrating into the busy workflow of the outpatient clinic (SOPC). These projects are developed based on patient-centered experience in clinic journey, aiming to im...

Smart technology has been applied to a wide range of healthcare services around the globe with the aim of promoting patient safety and staff productivity. Since the implementation of Inpatient Medication Order Entry (IPMOE), the Pharmacy Department of every Kowloon East Cluster (KEC) hospital has pr...

On 23 January 2020, the first index case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in Hong Kong. Since then, the number of cases has risen at an alarming rate. In anticipation of the outbreak, the Hospital Authority in Hong Kong actively cut down clinic sessions since February 2020 to reduce clinic attendances and ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an incredibly powerful tool for building computer vision systems that support the work of radiologists. Over the last several years, artificial intelligence methods have revolutionized the analysis of digital images, leading to high interest and explosive growth in th...

Medical social collaboration intuitively sounds like a good idea, with promises of bridging fragmented systems, patient-centred care delivery and as a sustainable complementary balance for increasingly technology-driven care. Yet, what leadership, structures or processes nurture this ecosystem of he...

This presentation will provide an overview of a large academic health system’s virtual care, or telehealth, programming with a focus on the rapid growth during the Covid19 pandemic. It will review adoption data and key performance indicators, and explore key questions related to virtual care imple...