2021: Even More Cyber Attacks on Healthcare
2020 saw an unprecedented rise in cyber attacks on healthcare systems and institutions. However, in 2021 the situation might get even... Read more
Assessing Surgical Skills with AI
A new study describes a three-stage machine-learning approach to automated surgical skill assessment in laparoscopic cholecystectomy videos... Read more
Addressing Cyberthreats in Healthcare Through Collective Action
A new report from The CyberPeace Institute analyses a variety of recent cyberattacks against the healthcare sector around the world,... Read more
NLP+EHR: Automatic Detection of Adverse Drug Reactions
A group of Spanish researchers present the results of their work on applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques for electronic health... Read more
Enhanced Artificial Vision with New Prosthesis
Promising to be another major step in blindness restoration, a new wide-field, high-density and high-resolution photovoltaic epiretinal prosthesis... 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
Israeli Society of Cardiac and Intensive Care Nursing
The Israeli Cardiac and Intensive Care Nursing Society is very active... Read more
Apps for Cardiovascular Disease: The Role of Avatars In Personalisation
How do we help people to improve their health after a heart event? Current... Read more
How Far is the Future?
Summary: Endless noise about new technologies in healthcare has providers... Read more
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: Unanswered Questions
The value and importance of multidisciplinary teams in breast cancer... Read more
Healthcare Design With a Long-Term View
In the process of ‘reimagining a hospital,’ one cannot overestimate... Read more
The Role of Speech and Language Therapy Supporting Nutritional Management in ICU
Speech and language therapists play an integral role in identifying... Read more