Which 2 Pieces of Health Technology are Essential for the CISO’s Arsenal?
Artificial intelligence means using computers and tools to do something that humans do. Machine learning is a subset of overall AI that recognises... Read more
Dedicated CISO: Worth It?
More than half (60 percent) of healthcare organisations employ a senior executive that oversees cybersecurity, such as a chief information security... Read more
Cyber Attack Insurance: The Facts
Even with more resources invested to boost cybersecurity, hospitals are not immune to costly cyberattacks. And as cyber threats increase in frequency,... Read more
Shocking Finds: HIMSS Cybersecurity Report
Remember that any connected device or system can be hacked. This is a central message of the latest HIMSS Healthcare and Cross-Sector Cybersecurity... Read more
Cybersecurity on a Budget
Budgetary constraints often make it difficult for some hospitals to protect highly sensitive health information. But infosec experts say organisations... Read more
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Advances for information exchange between healthcare organisations
Major healthcare IT vendor Orion Health is amongst the first suppliers accredited by NHS Digital to use a new NHS messaging service ('MESH') to exchange information between health and care systems. Orion Health’s accreditation means that NHS organisations that use its Rhapsody™ Integration Engine can exchange information with other organisations using... Read more
Predictive maintenance in healthcare - If you can predict it, you can prevent it
Predictive maintenance techniques have been introduced in several industries to help determine the condition of equipment that is already in use to predict when maintenance should be carried out. This approach promises cost savings over routine, regular preventive maintenance, because tasks are performed only when necessary, rather than because the... Read more
New photo transfer apps are challenging security perceptions in medicine
In today's medical establishments there are several ad-hoc, but often insecure, approaches to taking photos of patient's ailments in common use, making use of either phone or camera hardware. Most doctors wish to attach the resulting photos to their EHR (Electronic Health Record) systems, and be able to access them again quickly on-screen for a given... Read more
White Papers and Case Studies
Taking the Mystery Out of Machine Learning
2017 06 Apr
Radiologists have been taught to fear machine learning. It means what it says, a machine can learn. It is an inherently frightening concept. It is almost a shame to put such a label on the process, because it is not really new. Remember Fuzzy Logic? Neural Networks? We were all impressed that a computer could recognize the letter “A”, but that... Read more
Seven Steps to a More Efficient and Resilient IT Solution
2017 20 Feb
Efficient patient-centric care models require consolidating mountains of data. Acquisitions and regionalization further compound the challenge. How does an organization capitalize on what could easily become a liability? Fredrik Gustavsson, Sectra CTO, sums up the answer simply, “Don’t buy technology. Buy solutions for your clinical pathways.” In this... Read more
Canterbury Hospital, Australia
2016 15 Nov
Located in Sydney’s Inner west, Canterbury Hospital has just over 200 beds. DT Research and its partner, HPA supplied 49 Carts with DT592BU Medical-Cart Computers to Canterbury in June 2016. Canterbury uses Surginet (Cerner) for theatre & recovery eMR applications on their PC’sSource & Image Credit: DT Research Read more
From Our Journals
Being an expert witness
Describes the practicalities of being an expert witness and explains what... Read more
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”
The COmpetency-BAsed Training programme in Intensive Care for Europe and... Read more
The challenges and opportunities of tomorrow’s radiologist
Radiology facing its future head on. An overview of how smart tools such... Read more
Will the Hospital of the Future Be Our Home
Already, healthcare is being outsourced to the home in a bid to encourage... Read more
Organisational Change in Newly Integrated Medical Imaging Departments
INCREASE COMMITMENT BY TEAM INVOLVEMENT In Europe, departments of rad... Read more
Dipak Kalra
1. What are your key areas of interest and research? Helping to drive the... Read more