Making Contact Tracing More Secure
A group of researchers at the University of Notre Dame is working to address the security issues of the existing COVID-19 contact tracing... Read more
SMART Guidelines for National Digital Health Systems
WHO has launched its first SMART Guideline approach that includes documentation, procedures and digital health tools. You might... Read more
Deep Learning for Lung Cancer Treatments
A deep learning (DL) model developed at the Pennsylvania State University proved to be much more efficient in predicting survival expectancy... Read more
AI Helps Multilingual Patient Communication in Radiology
A free web-based tool uses artificial intelligence to help radiologic technicians communicate with patients in various languages. ... Read more
Machine Learning in Dermatology: Algorithm Versus Doctor
How does artificial intelligence perform in diagnostics of skin melanoma and compare with a dermatologist’ assessment? You might... 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
Dr. Nicola Strickland
Dr. Strickland is a consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust... Read more
Health: The Economic Growth Engine of the 21st Century
Is there a correlation between health and economic growth? Can the healthcare... Read more
Respiratory monitoring in the perioperative period
A recent large prospective cohort study conducted on different types... Read more
New Image Sharing Technology Transforms Radiology Services Across Yorkshire
The XERO Exchange Network, a new image sharing technology from Agfa... Read more
New toolkit helps nurses use genomics for patient care
Resource available for all levels of genomics competency The n Read more
The whole patient
I am a cancer patient. I have experience first-hand how society’s... Read more
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Comarch Diagnostic Point
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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...