Hospital Chaplains and Telemedicine
Use of telemedicine has expanded to meet the growing spiritual needs of patients, with hospital chaplains now offering spiritual support increasingly... Read more
Study: mHealth Apps Have Poor Data Privacy Protection
According to researchers, mobile health applications accredited by the UK National Health Service do not adequately protect the privacy of users'... Read more
Goals of Federal Health IT Strategic Plan
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has finalised its strategy for the next five years. The Federal Health IT Strategic... Read more
Connecting Healthcare Data - Interoperability
While people often take for granted the convenience of being able to withdraw money from an ATM hundreds of miles from home or call someone in... Read more
HIMSS Stage 6 and 7 Hospitals in Summit Focus
The HIMSS Europe CIO Summit will be celebrating its 6th year next month in Spain. This annual event which brings together leading European IT... Read more
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Digital Healthcare Focus: European Hospitals on Fire (FHIR) EMH-onFHIR
In this space I will explore monthly topics, from concepts to technologies, related to the necessary steps to build Digital Healthcare Systems. For this month, I have invited Mr Giorgio Cangioli to co-author a brief article on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), as hospitals and their interconnections are a critical asset and next... Read more
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
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
Radiology Resources in Timor-Leste: Limited Imaging Choices in a Small Yet Poor Country
An evaluation of the imaging profile of Timor-Leste’s... Read more
The Post-ICU Patient - Management of Long-Term Impairments After Critical Illness
Survivors of critical illness and their caregivers frequently face long-term... Read more
Antibiotic Management in the ICU
Antimicrobial management in the intensive care unit (ICU) represents an... Read more
Nursing on the Move: cross-border hiring
Addressing pitfalls and best practice examples for successful hiring... Read more
Healthcare 2030: Transformation in the Next Decade
2020 marks the start of a new decade and, with factors such as the Silver... Read more
360 Health Analysis - Breast Cancer Management in Portugal: Patient Journey
Abstract Introduction: 360 Health Analysis (H360) was started... Read more
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Comarch Diagnostic Point
Comarch Diagnostic Point High demand for accessible and convenient healthcare has led to the rapid development of telemedicine services. Among these services are diagnostic points, which allow proper care to be provided to patients – anywhere,...