Decoding Patient Cost
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has formed a strategic partnership with Health Catalyst to develop and commercialise a hospital-based... Read more
Changes Ahead for 'Confusing' Meaningful Use
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt has hinted at changes as the healthcare industry embraces the... Read more
How will HIMSS Value Score for EHRs Work?
HIMSS Value Score is healthcare's first international quality measurement for the value of health IT. Launched in early December, the model will... Read more
Best Cloud for Your Digital Strategy
Cloud plays an important role in any hospital's digital transformation. The technology can help improve workflows and provide access to new information... Read more
Brain Mystery Solved with IT Approach
Discontinuity of topographic maps in the brain — not signal reduction — reflects sensory impairment, according to new research from Hebrew University.... Read more
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Modern Digital health: Power of Retail Is Taking over Healthcare
It’s time to address the Amazon in the room Anyone who has been to the future can predict what Amazon will do next. However, to the skilled observer, all the pieces are laid out—the elements are on the table. It will simply be a connect-the-dots moment to realise the big bang that we are about to experience. For the last 25 years,... Read more
Digital Healthcare Focus: AI, Medical Liability, in a ‘Moving’ Image
In this space I explore monthly topics, from concepts to technologies, related to the necessary steps to build Digital Healthcare Systems. For the month of April 2021, I have invited João Santinha to co-author a brief article on ‘AI, Medical Liability, in a "Moving" Image’. We dive into the December 2020 topic and focus on the medical liability... Read more
Digital Marketing and Medical Devices
Important response to COVID-19 The thought of returning to pre-COVID conditions is on everyone’s mind. This includes business owners who have been hard hit by the pandemic. However, they have also pivoted and acclimatised well during this period. They have been able to do so through, among other things, digital marketing. The... 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.”... 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’s Source & Image Credit: DT Research Read more
From Our Journals
Pre-ICU health organisation in Norway
Presents the main principles of the Norwegian acute healthcare system.... Read more
Setting New Standards in Syncope Management
Syncope is a heterogeneous syndrome with complex underlying mechanisms.... Read more
Ageing Population
T he process of ageing cannot be defined by a number. The World Health... Read more
The Abdomen
Managing the abdomen and its complications in the intensive care unit... Read more
Improving The Provision Of A Compliance Aid Dispensing Service
North Bristol National Health Service (NHS) Trust (NBT) is the first Acute... Read more
Whole-body ultrasound in the intensive care unit
Bedside ultrasound of the whole body Whole-body ultrasound can be used... Read more