Interview

The architect of Obamacare, former US Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, spoke exclusively to Gary Culliton about how US health payments are now more focused on outcomes, and how hospital systems have re-engineered their practices, resulting in significant patient safety gains Early in his first term of office, US President Barack Obama nominated Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human

Senior clinicians need to learn to admit that they are less than perfect, adviser to UK’s Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt on patient safety, Matthew Syed tells Lloyd Mudiwa ahead of his trip to Dublin

Doctors are human after all and need the same amount of sleep as everyone else, Prof Jim Lucey of St Patrick’s Mental Health Services and TCD tells June Shannon, while emphasising legislation alone will not prevent tired doctors

Marese McDonagh speaks with former UK Children’s Commissioner and BMA President Prof Sir Al Aynsley-Green about how his own experience of losing his father at the age of 10 informed his championing of addressing childhood bereavement

Despite a slow start, most dimensions of healthcare should take advantage of eHealth over the next two decades, Imperial College London’s Prof Josip Car tells Lloyd Mudiwa, ahead of a major conference in Dublin this month

Gary Culliton speaks with HSE National Lead NCHD Dr Catherine Diskin about expanding the Lead NCHD programme into mental health, new awards and additional resources to part-fund Masters degrees in leadership and management for NCHDs in 2017.

Cardiologist and digital healthcare innovator Dr Robert Kelly told Niamh Mullen how telemedicine can improve healthcare and enhance a clinical career for doctors, ahead of the second annual Irish Medical Careers Fair

After 11 years, the RCSI is still the only surgical training body in the world with a comprehensive curriculum-based human factors programme.

HSE Chief Information Officer Richard Corbridge’s grand plan is to build an eHealth ‘ecosystem’, he tells Gary Culliton

A renaissance of the appreciation of having a personal doctor is required in healthcare systems in order to fully unleash the power of the ‘doctor drug’, according to Prof Frede Olesen of Aarhaus University in Denmark.