WEF Proposes 4 Cybersecurity Measures For 1 Billion Users
As the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting continues in Davos , Switzerland, the global private-public organisation has announced four... Read more
German Doctors To Prescribe Health Apps in ‘World First’
The German healthcare system is undergoing several digital upgrades this year in order to improve the service. One of the key features... Read more
Most Companies Have No AI Plan: WEF Promotes AI Toolkit
Global technology investment is rising to $52bln in the next three years, and expected to double the annual growth rates of major economies over... Read more
Big Data in Breakthrough Cancer Detection Tool
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have used big data analytics to devise a personalised tool for prediction of cancer,... Read more
Swiss Hospitals Successfully Trial Blockchain Medical Device Tracking
Swiss hospitals have announced successful processing on a trial of medical device orders via the Blockchain. The Cantonal Hospital Winterthur,... Read more
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Digital Healthcare Focus: Liability Issues of AI Use in Healthcare
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 January 2021, I look onto liability issues of artificial intelligence (AI) use in hospitals; next month we will explore why a ‘Societal Health’ perspective is key in the maturation and resilience... Read more
Digital Healthcare Focus: Integrating Telerehabilitation in Rehabilitation Care
In this space I will explore monthly topics, from concepts to technologies, related to the necessary steps to build Digital Healthcare Systems. For the month of December 2020, I have invited Dr Paula Amorim to co-author this inaugural column. She will share her view on ‘the challenges and opportunities of integrating telerehabilitation in rehabilitation... Read more
COVID-19 As Catalyst for Precision Medicine/Digital Therapeutics
Almost overnight businesses across the globe had to rethink their operations, as COVID-19 caused profound disruption; across communities, how we engage, the way we work, our healthcare systems, our economy… The rapidly changing environment has been a catalyst for change as it transformed the global health community’s acceptance and use of... 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
Radiology At the Crossroads
Radiology is now at a crossroads. Let us expand the metaphor. If... Read more
Revenue Cycle Management
Summary: With the push to do more with less in healthcare, a majority... Read more
The role of disruptive and hybrid technologies in acute care
Section Editor Theodorus Kyprianou introduces the “Informatics and Technology Read more
Emergency Intraosseous Access: Novel Diagnostic and Therapeutic Possibilities and Limitations
The intraosseous needle is an essential tool in emergency settings when... Read more
Hot Topics in Critical Care Medicine in Korea
12th Congress of World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical... Read more
Clinical Use of Coronary CT Angiography
CHANGE OF PARADIGM During the last decades we have witnessed a tremendous... Read more