eHealth Tools for Asthma Care in Adolescents
Asthma is a chronic lung disease prevalent among adolescents, yet most interventions have focused on the care of child and adult sufferers.... Read more
Not Everyone Is Ready for Telehealth
With pandemic-induced lockdowns and travel curbs, telemedicine offers a safe and convenient way to meet the healthcare needs of patients... Read more
Care Through ePortal: Best Practice from Ireland
Electronic patient portals (ePortal) enable patients and care-partners (eg, family members) to securely access their health records and... Read more
Remote Monitoring for COVID-19 Symptoms
Wearables such as Fitbit watches and bands are empowering people to better monitor their health and fitness. These mHealth devices are... Read more
Questions to Ask About Chatbots
The application of conversational agents (CAs, or chatbots) in healthcare is just beginning, but there are a number of c linical, legal,... Read more
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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
Digital Marketing and Medical Devices
Important response to COVID-19 The thought of returning to pre-COVID conditions is on everyone’s mind. This includes business owners who have been hard hit by the pandemic. However, they have also pivoted and acclimatised well during this period. They have been able to do so through, among other things, digital marketing. The... 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
Encouraging health app use with seniors
Prevention, patient autonomy and use of digital goods A digital... Read more
Evidence-Based Care in the Intensive Care Unit
By taking the Hippocratic Oath, physicians commit to practising their... Read more
Training the Intensivists of the Future
West Suffolk Hospital is a district general hospital located in a 19-hectare... Read more
A patient’s journey is likely to include surfing the web: how can we help?
Internet and people with mental disorders A “whole patient”... Read more
Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare
X-ray, computed tomography, blood tests, genetic diagnostics, health... Read more
Paul Sidhu
Professor of Imaging Sciences and Consultant Radiologist - King’s College... Read more