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
Cyber-Attack Protocols A Must As German Hospital Shut Down By Malware
German Hospital shut down by Malware; Reporting Protocols a MUST! A cyber-attack that brought an almost fully paperless hospital in Germany... Read more
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3 Software Solutions to Reinvent Processes in Healthcare
The concept of digital healthcare puts patients, their personal needs and demands for convenience and speed at the centre, which is why investing in custom software solutions is such a popular business strategy today. But digitisation in healthcare is so much more than just a passing trend. Instead, it is a vital ingredient of the success of each healthcare... Read more
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
White Papers and Case Studies
Thales’s End-to-End Comprehensive Offer for Connected Radiology
2022 15 Jun
As in many sectors, the COVID crisis has substantially changed the way of working, with an increasing need for digital solutions to guaranty continuity of services. The same applies for the medical domain. During the pandemic, clinicians maintained the link with patients, conducting remote consultations, but raising a huge concern with... Read more
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
From Our Journals
Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare
X-ray, computed tomography, blood tests, genetic diagnostics, health... Read more
Hotspot: AI and Ethics in Health Innovation
Summary: AI holds great promise, yet also raises many ethical questions.... Read more
Robots in Healthcare: Challenges of Integration
With his main research belonging to marketing domain, Prof González-Jiménez’s... Read more
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare – Realising the Benefits
An overview of the use and application of Artificial Intelligence and... Read more
Innovations in monitoring: from smartphones to wearables
This article describes recent advances and perspectives in cardiorespiratory... Read more
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Augmented Intelligence for radiology workflows
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medical imaging and new imaging techniques provide radiologists and other diagnosticians with better access to deeper anatomical and clinical details. At the same time, these innovations highlight the need for...