Improving the system: One action at a time

Improving the system: One action at a time.

In a 2013 televised address the Chief of the Australian Army, Lt. Gen. David Morrison, said ‘The standard you walk past is the standard you accept’. While Morrison was talking about unacceptable behaviour in the Australian Army at the time, equally there are messages here for those who are involved in managing and leading health services. What is the standard of healthcare expected in Australia...

Improving healthcare: Transforming concepts into action with one patient at a time.

Thank you for your refreshing views on healthcare system improvement in your editorial piece entitled ‘Improving the system: one action at a time’. The framework for the five elements (patients, processes, people, priorities and partnerships) certainly highlights howwe can close the gaps and insufficiencies we have in our Australian healthcare system. There is strong evidence to indicate that w...

Improving Web Services Performance, One Step at a Time

Web Services were designed for Enterprise systems. They are a flexible but complex technology, with numerous performance pitfalls for developers. They also have significant overhead when compared with platform-specific solutions (e.g. Java RMI). The end solutions have to combine (virtualized) platform, application framework, and application-specific code. As a result of this complexity, the per...

Watching cellular machinery in action, one molecule at a time

Single-molecule manipulation and imaging techniques have become important elements of the biologist's toolkit to gain mechanistic insights into cellular processes. By removing ensemble averaging, single-molecule methods provide unique access to the dynamic behavior of biomolecules. Recently, the use of these approaches has expanded to the study of complex multiprotein systems and has enabled de...

Effects of exercise training on improving the immune system of elderly people at the time of COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review