New Cyber security Threat: 'Locky’
Following the recent ransomware incident at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Centre, that saw the facility paying out $17, 000 in to regain... Read more
Need ideas? Take a Walk in the Woods
Creating a more idea- and innovation-friendly culture within an organisation can help to facilitate change that leads to improved work processes... Read more
EHRs Detect Undiagnosed Type 2 Diabetes
A group of UCLA researchers that mined thousands of electronic health records (EHRs) with the aim of finding a cheaper and more accurate... Read more
IT Community Leader: “Don’t Give in to Cyber-Blackmailers”
The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (HITM) has disagreed with the FBI’s stance on how hospitals should deal with ransomware... Read more
Pinpoint Hidden Talent
Organisations work hard to recruit the best talent. They put out compelling recruitment ads and hiring managers scrutinise applicants' resumes... Read more
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How to Find the Right IT Partner for Your Telemedicine Solution
It’s 2022 and public health is undergoing an unprecedented digital transformation. It’s a road already taken before Covid-19, but during the first quarter of 2020 in the U.S. telehealth visits increased by 154% (CDC, 2020). If you are in a business in the healthcare industry , you probably feel the pressure to provide or use technology that works... Read more
Shaping the Artificial Intelligence of the Future
In 2014, Stephen Hawking had warned that ‘the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race’. 1 A bold statement indeed, but if we focus on the term ‘full’, we’ll understand that if not designed properly, certain level of autonomy that could be difficult to control and can be extremely damaging to fundamental... Read more
Is There a Place for Healthcare in the Metaverse?
Towards a metahealth industry? The announcement by Mark Zuckerberg on October 28, 2021 that Facebook would become an entity called “meta” has triggered an immediate interest about the possibilities of the inclusion of healthcare in such ecosystem. At this stage, most people in the tech world are aware of the notion of metaverse:... 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
“Not in My Care Home”
In early summer, a care home on the outskirts of Lyon in France made... Read more
Why Do We Need Sedation in Critically-Ill COVID-19 Patients?
C OVID-19 patients present to the hospital with lung involvement and... Read more
Would you use a dirty ultrasound probe on yourself?
Making the ultrasound scan a safer examination. A sonographer... Read more
Digital Health Diplomacy in Chained Globalised Health Context
There cannot be a global approach to diseases and health promotion... Read more
The Transformative Power of the Patient Voice
How to amplify the voice of cancer patients worldwide in order to... Read more
Does More Value Naturally Lead to Better Care?
Value-based healthcare (VBHC) starts with the patient and uses patient-orient Read more