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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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
In Search of a Crystal Ball: Predicting Long-term Outcomes in Critically Ill Older Adults
Older adults who survive critical illness are at risk of adverse... Read more
Sedation and Analgesia
How to manage sedation analgesia for patient-centred care in the ICU.... Read more
The ripple effect: sustainability in healthcare
How ‘corporate responsibility’ is impacting on healthcare Developed... Read more
Building a new culture of safety
Providing employees with the right environment and skills Human Read more
Monitor Me!
mHealth has gained considerable momentum in recent years, but, contrary... Read more
Burning Platform for Change: COVID-19 Experience in Ghana
In mid-July, Ghana was among the African countries most affected by COVID-19.... Read more