Boost to England's health cyber security following £150 investment
£150 million will be spent on NHS cyber security over the next three years¸ reducing the impact of an attack, announced t he Department... Read more
Google and Fitbit collaborate on tech and wearables
Fitness wearables and apps help patients to take a more active role in their wellness and chronic disease management. While data from wearables... Read more
Tech and the genome sequence: the story so far
It took about 10 years to complete the first-ever full human genome sequence – at a hefty cost of $3bn (£2.2bn). With advances in technology... Read more
How to turn around failing EHRs
Electronic health records were supposed to cut medical costs by driving down administrative expenses. However, despite a wider adoption of EHRs,... Read more
Blockchain healthcare IT set for huge growth by 2025
The need to improve interoperability and security of the healthcare information systems is a major factor for the growing adoption of blockchain... Read more
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Part 1: Cyber security key obstacles and addressing tech personnel shortage
A recent report from advisory BDO has highlighted ‘the most underrated cyber threats’ in the healthcare sector. ‘Brace for the Breach’, showed a growing trend in decentralised cyber attacks and nation state cyber attacks on hospitals in addition to a movement towards c rypto jacking replacing ransomware. In part 1 of a 2-part... Read more
Managing access to a Windows network for healthcare organizations
The importance of getting access management right cannot be overstated. You need to make sure that anybody accessing your systems – and the data within – is exactly who they say they are. This is especially important when dealing with healthcare professionals who have access to vast amounts of sensitive medical data. Most compliance... Read more
Empowering patients with Blockchain
Blockchain is more than just a technology that allows us to do what we already do better, faster and cheaper. This peer-to-peer new technology has the potential to create a more inclusive economy, where patients can benefit from health data ownership. If you take the attributes of censorship and collusion resistance and translate them into... 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
Affidea grows in Portugal and expands into teleradiology
Affidea Group is a leading healthcare services provider with over 7500... Read more
Leadership in Healthcare: A Review of the Evidence
The delivery of clinical care is based on careful research to determine... Read more
Xenon limits brain damage following cardiac arrest
Xenon and brain injury. Xenon, a chemically inert but biologically... Read more
Nuclear Medicine And Prostate Cancer
What are the issues with imaging of prostate cancer when it comes to... Read more
Person and family engagement
The key to caring for the whole patient. Person and family... Read more
Dense breast reporting laws in the USA
What has been the impact? A new study reports on the impact... Read more