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Strategic encounters in innovation and regulation: Healthcare transformation in...
Mendonça, S.; Damásio, B.; Santiago, F.; Chen, M.; Santos, A. B.; Cunha, M. P.; Nicita, A.Healthcare innovations emerge and develop in institutionally dense selective environments. New projects and propositions in healthcare sectoral ecosystems can be understood as product-service compacts, that is, complex solutions that dynamically integrate tangible and intangible elements in close interaction with users’ needs and the evolving regulatory context under uncertainty and ambiguity. We advance the co...
Digital Ulcers as Presentation of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Gomes, T. F.; Kieselova, K; Santiago, F.; Daniel, A.; Henrique, M.Ulcerating and mutilating variant of carpal tunnel syndrome occurs in longstanding cases of untreated disease. Pa- tients present with painless ulcers of the second and third fingers, accompanied with other cutaneous and sensory changes. These patients are often misdiagnosed as having a Raynaud disease or systemic sclerosis. Clinical assessment is the gold standard for the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome, b...
The business of things architecture
Cabral Pinto, F.; Chainho, P.; Pássaro, N.; Santiago, F.; Corujo, D.; Gomes, D.A revolution is happening that is triggered by a brave new world made by interconnected devices. The internet of things is already a reality that is creating new business opportunities across different industrial sectors. Communication service providers have a major opportunity to shape this reality by leading this transformation. For that, they need to evolve their existing architectures to enable a flexible c...
Inguinal hernia repair according to 3 mesh techniques: a retrospective comparat...
Coutinho, L.; Rodrigues, A.; Santiago, F.; Bernardes, A.; Oliveira, F.AIM: Retrospective analisis of the outcome in the immediate and late postoperative care of inguinal hernioplasty according to 3 mesh techniques. Matherial and Methods: From 1997 until 2005, a 9-year period, 562 inguinal hernioplasty procedures were conducted in 496 patients at Surgery I Ward of University Hospitals of Coimbra. Male gender (n=453) was the most predominant and the mean age was 59 years [16-98]. E...