• The Future is Digital

    The debate about Artificial Intelligence (AI) versus healthcare personnel shows no sign of abating. While we can safely say that the role of physicians is not under any serious threat from technology, AI will be critical in managing data for more efficient diagnosis, workflow and patient care. ‘The Future is Digital’ offers exciting views on d1

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  • Going from a Culture of Blame and Denial to a Culture of Safety

    Summary: Many healthcare organisations face difficulties while managing transition from a culture of blame and denial to a culture of safety. To succeed, leaders should identify obstacles, create an environment of trust and set an example with their own actions. Healthcare holds traditions in high esteem. The white coat and nursing pin cer1

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  • COVID-19: What Can Healthcare Learn?

    Summary: A new decade is normally a time for optimism and fresh starts but what 2020 ushered in was a new coronavirus. Named by WHO as COVID-19, the virus causes severe acute respiratory problems. It is thought to have emerged at a live animal market in the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019 with an initial trickle of report1

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  • How Healthcare Can Unlock the Promise of Big Data

    Summary: The healthcare space will not only need to change its systems, operations and infrastructure, but also healthcare professionals may have to adopt an innovative mindset to embrace the changes and challenges brought to their working lives by implementing big data. I believe that big data present enormous opportunities in the healthc1

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  • Radiomics and Imaging: The Need for Standardisation

    Summary: Radiomics holds great promise for personalised imaging but without a set of standards for all modalities, the data extraction method will falter. A leading proponent of standardisation for MRI radiomics speaks to HealthManagement.org about the opportunities and pitfalls ahead. Why is it important that standardisat1

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  • The English Patients: This UK Hospital Is Harnessing AI To Deliver Slicker Service

    If you watched the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games in 2012, you will know that British people love their National Health Service (NHS) as much as they cherish Peter Pan, The Beatles and James Bond. The ceremony’s climax was an eccentric and poignant dance routine that celebrated the NHS’s special place in the nation’s heart.1

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  • Children in the Spotlight: When Every Second Counts

    The University Hospital of the Free University of Brussels (UZ Brussel) in Belgium is pioneering the use of real-time deep learning-based image reconstruction (DLIR) on CT scan, exploring the benefits it offers for rapid pediatric evaluation, including lower dose and enhanced efficiency. In healthcare, it is acknowledged tha1

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  • Bright Ideas

    HealthManagement.org rounds up exciting developments that have all the characteristics of game-changers for healthcare. What do you think? AI Breast Cancer Diagnosis Matches Two Doctors A study suggested that AI diagnoses breast cancer from mammograms more accurately than radiologists.A computer, specially designed and trained by1

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  • A Gentle Warning

    Summary: Professor Stephen Baker provides an overview on how artificial intelligence is challenging the role of a radiologist. Over the past five years, I have been fascinated by the impress of artificial intelligence (AI) on the current practice of medicine and the exciting prospects it offers for the near future. The power of big data h1

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  • The Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare Systems

    The value proposition of artificial intelligence solutions in healthcare have been well described 1 and it is apparent that ‘narrow AI’ will have a role in every stage in the clinical workflow; in Radiology this means optimisation of every step in the pathway from the appropriateness of clinical requests for imaging 2 to ensuring that recommenda1

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