On May 7, an international panel of healthcare representatives from seven countries convened for an Elekta-hosted virtual symposium where they shared cancer care strategies and protocols that have been effective for their respective centers during the Covid-19 pandemic. INHALT NR. Um unsere Website in bester Weise zu erfahren, aktivieren Sie Javascript in Ihrem Browser. Titled “Radiation oncology in a post-Covid-19 world: building on pandemic-related innovations to integrate precision radiation medicine into routine cancer care”, speakers ranged from a radiation oncologist at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, China – Covid-19’s putative city of origin – to a Senior VP in a Business Development role for a large U.S. provider.“Each of the seven centers has experienced challenges unique to their region, healthcare system and patient demographics, but all have met the difficulties caused by the pandemic with innovative solutions and with the utmost focus on their patients’ wellbeing,” says Ioannis Panagiotelis, Elekta’s Chief Marketing and Sales Officer. There was a huge difference region to region in how they responded based on how soon the markets could open up.”Providers were able to work through patient backlogs, the diagnosed patients were able to be moved on, get rescheduled, halos of patients that were “orbiting around” the sites and being contacted, and a major pickup of telemedicine to communicate with patients.To minimize the likelihood of an outbreak in the facility, The Medical City & Asian Hospital & Medical Center (Philippines) developed protocols, including the creation of a four-phase Cancer Center Adaptive Workflow to triage radiotherapy patients, said radiation oncologist Enrico Tangco, MD.The initial screening phase, based on the presence of Covid-19 symptoms, sends symptomatic patients to the ER immediately, where “suspected” or “probable” patients receive a PCR test and are quarantined for 14 days. “We have done over a thousand such visits in the last four weeks, although for treatment obviously the patients have to come to an HCG center.”Josh Eaves, Alliance Oncology Senior Vice President, segmented the situation for his organization into Post-Quarantine, Intra Covid-19 and Post Covid-19 in its 26 markets around the USA.“In the first phase, we have seen the patient flow continue with a slight interruption,” he said. AUGUST 2020 TITELTHEMA 28 Pandemie mit Spätfolgen Corona glimmt weiter und droht mit dem Ende des Sommers wieder aufzuflammen.

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However, as described in the symposium, the 24 comprehensive centers comprising Healthcare Global Enterprise (HCG), India’s largest network of cancer centers, had a built-in advantage.“Because HCG is widely distributed throughout India, we had already been doing a lot of videoconferencing, so we simply started doing more of that and actually going to patients’ homes for consults,” said Dr B S Ajaikumar, Chairman & CEO, HCG. Corona und wir, wie Glaube, Liebe und Hoffnung uns Zuversicht geben. FOCUS setzt Themen in Politik, Wirtschaft, Forschung und Technik, ist zukunftsorientiert, macht Hintergründe transparent und eröffnet konkrete Handlungsoptionen.
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