Risk Management: Cybersecurity
A cyberattack does not occur spontaneously for it requires some planning and preparation. These attacks make use of a variety of techniques,... Read more
Artificial Intelligence: Explosive Growth
Artificial intelligence is fast becoming integrated in the delivery of healthcare, and increasing use of the technology is expected to... Read more
Hackers Target Junior Staff
Cybercriminals are adjusting their social engineering tactics to focus on the more vulnerable members of an organisation: the junior staff.... Read more
Outsourcing: HIT Talent Shortage
The current infosec staffing crisis has led to hospitals' increasing reliance on service providers to help them with IT and data security operations.... Read more
“Digitising is C-Suite Concern”: NHS Digital Chief
Uncertainty is hanging in the air over what Brexit, the British departure from the European Union (EU), will bring to the UK economy... Read more
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Healthcare of the future: Disney’s ‘Black Mirror’
We are getting used to hear that all sorts of technological innovations will help men and women live almost eternally without suffering: magic seeds, like the beans in the fairy tale, that grow without water and with therapeutic properties; colour pills that will extend our lives beyond 200 years; gene therapies that will eliminate cancer; brain... Read more
What must the NHS do to survive another 70 years?
Politician Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, famously asserted at the service’s birth in 1948, “If a hospital bedpan is dropped in a hospital corridor in Tredegar, the reverberations should echo around Whitehall.” Southeast Wales is less than 260 miles from London; it would have to be one very noisy reverberation... Read more
GDPR: Risk and accountability
What could the new data protection law mean for health sector leaders? The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on 25 May 2018, replacing the 1995 Data Protection Directive. Directly binding and applicable in all EU states, the GDPR aims to protect the data and privacy of the European population by giving... 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
Alliar: Innovations for a country of continental dimensions
Alliar’s innovative business model and IT systems mean that patients... Read more
How to provide better intensive care?
Systems approach and individualised care Professor Jukka Takala, MD,... Read more
Competition in the UK National Health Service
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Optimising sleep in the ICU
Disordered sleep is common in ICU patients. While many of the reasons... Read more
Point-of-Care US: A New Service Delivery Model
Medical care in the Netherlands is organised through a gatekeeper, the... Read more
The Need for Clinical Audits in Diagnostic Radiology
Clinical audits will be mandatory for radiology departments in the EU... Read more