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KYRKIMTZIS, APOSTOLOS (author)In an era marked by healthcare advancements driven by innovative technologies, the integration of emerging medical breakthroughs like VR, AI, and IoT has propelled the MedTech industry's exponential growth. Despite their transformative potential, navigating the MedTech commercialization pathway presents formidable challenges; new medical...master thesis 2023
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Doan, Kevin (author)The 21st century has seen a significant increase in the global prevalence of mental health problems, affecting almost a billion people. These conditions not only reduce the quality of life for individuals but also lead to stigmatization, discrimination, and social isolation. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated mental health issues,...master thesis 2023
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Duzijn, Yannick (author)<br/>With increasing healthcare demand, environmental concerns and waste management in healthcare, particularly in the operating room (OR), are significant issues. Disposable surgical energy devices, like vessel sealers, gain popularity in veterinary healthcare, but reusing them is officially forbidden by law and presents challenges. Objective:...master thesis 2023
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Magyari, Reka (author)Clinical documentation takes up 40% of clinicians’ time. To ease the administrative burden of clinicians, digital scribes offer the potential to automate clinical note taking. Digital scribes are intelligent documentation softwares that combine automated speech recognition (ASR) and natural language processing (NLP). Digital scribes transcribe...master thesis 2022
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Post, Hanneke (author)The pressure on healthcare systems is increasing all over the world. With an ageing world population, the costs for healthcare and the shortages in medical staff are continually increasing. In the Netherlands, out-of-hours general practitioner departments, or ‘huisartsenposten’, suffer from this increasing pressure in their telephone triage...master thesis 2021
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Sarwin, Dennis (author)Purpose<br/>As a result of the worldwide aging population, Vertebral Compression Fractures (VCF) are commonly detected in osteoporotic patients; these can originate from traumatic events or occur spontaneously. The existing VCF devices and their corresponding surgical instruments have their limitations in terms of short- and long-term...master thesis 2021
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Zagorac, Ivor (author)The continuous generation of a large volume of health data from different sources has led to healthcare being a data-intensive domain. To achieve innovative advances in medical treatment procedures and to provide personalized healthcare services to the patients this data needs to be shared among different medical facilities. However, because...bachelor thesis 2021
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de Goeje, Ludo (author)This document reports the exploration of the development of a context-specific strip reader for an innovative lateral flow test detecting schistosomiasis. Schistosomiasis is a common poverty-related parasitic disease in many Sub-Saharan African countries. Transmission happens in infested water, putting especially children at risk....master thesis 2021
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Kelly, Jordan (author)This thesis is concerned with exploring just how to develop products in line with this frugal methodology through the case study of a hand exerciser. This main research question for this design project asks to what extent can FDM 3D printing be applied to assist Kenyan occupational therapists in the provision of therapy to individuals with hand...master thesis 2021
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van Baren, Rutger (author)Cybersecurity is important to hospitals and patients alike and is becoming more important as healthcare is experiencing more cybercrime over time. It is the result of complex interactions between actors and their environment during procurement, but research has not yet studied the combination of cybersecurity, healthcare and procurement together...master thesis 2021
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Sailer, Tim (author)To satisfy the growing needs of customers for services many product-oriented companies in various industries have started switching their focus from products towards service offerings. To stay competitive, New Service Development became an important concern for many companies to achieve. Company Z, which is one of the largest product-oriented...master thesis 2020
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Agba, Obinna (author)Primary health care facilities are usually the first point of call for patients seeking medical help. However, mis-diagnosis at this stage of the clinical encounter is still quite prevalent. Mis-diagnosis can be potentially harmful to the patient and even when not the case, there is an increased financial cost of arriving at the correct...master thesis 2020
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Scipio, Nick (author)The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC) focuses on vitally threatened patients, who cannot survive without daily intensive treatment. As the patients in this department could easily deteriorate and (potentially) pass away, the staff members of LUMC’s ICU often need to act rapidly and make decisions within a...master thesis 2020
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Tetteroo, Karin (author)The high workload of nurses could be decreased by solutions that improve the work environment. Solutions that are currently made are not implemented effectively on the units. This report will describe a design project leading to a way in which nurses can be involved in improving their own work environment which will lead to a decreased workload...master thesis 2020
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Hille Ris Lambers, Ludo (author)With the introduction of the RepRap 3D printers, capable of printing most of its own parts, the cost of 3D printers dropped radically, making it an affordable and accessible technology, even for low resource settings. It is said that 3D printing can greatly increase accessibility to medical equipment in low resource settings because it enables...master thesis 2019
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Hooft Graafland, Joy (author)This report showcases the development of a product to aid the venipuncture procedure. Venipuncture is a procedure where intravenous access is obtained for several purposes. Finding a location and vein to insert the needle is the most important step of this procedure. Nearly 90% of hospitalised patients have to undergo the procedure. Despite...master thesis 2019
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Mamaqi Kapllani, Kevin (author)In the Netherlands alone, an estimated 730,000 persons are currently diagnosed with coronary heart disease (CHD), 120,000 with heart failure, and 260,000 with atrial fibrillation. As of 2014, cardiovascular disease accounted for 27% of all deaths1. The cardiology department of the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) has a regional role in...master thesis 2019
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Himmit, Imane (author)This research and design is about "Het Gemeenschap Gezondheidshuis; Samen Leven". A research about the change of healthcare nowadays; where people want to stay at home longer and have care at home. But also where the needs of a patient are more central. The main question is: what elements of architecture contributes to a healthier environment,...master thesis 2019
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Simons, Rochelle (author)An acute admission is a disruption from daily life and affects the child patient and his or her family. To reduce this disruption of daily life, the VKC is planning to build a Paediatric Acute Medical Unit (P-AMU) in the coming years. The VKC (Vrouw-Kind Centrum; Woman-Child Center) is the center of excellence in the field of all woman and child...master thesis 2018
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Brinkhorst, Douwe (author), Liesker, Bas (author)The founders of Momo Medical envisioned a health care product that would help nurses worldwide with pressure ulcer prevention. Pressure ulcers are a chronic wound that affects the skin of patients who do not regularly change bed posture. As it currently stands, nurses lack the manpower and time to change the postureof patients in a timely manor....bachelor thesis 2017