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
HIT Hacking: Prevention is Better than Cure
By implementing cybersecurity best practices, healthcare CIOs and CISOs not only can thwart attacks on their IT systems but also make... Read more
Key Elements in EHR Team Building
When implementing healthcare IT initiatives, it's important to realise that this is not just the task of the IT department – or the... Read more
Impediments to EHR Interoperability
A survey of health information exchange (HIE) professionals reveals that both EHR vendors and health systems are employing a variety of tactics... Read more
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Empowering patients with Blockchain
Blockchain is more than just a technology that allows us to do what we already do better, faster and cheaper. This peer-to-peer new technology has the potential to create a more inclusive economy, where patients can benefit from health data ownership. If you take the attributes of censorship and collusion resistance and translate them into... Read more
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
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
Standardised, Hospital-Wide Airway Trolleys
Inspired by the Difficult Airway Society Guidelines and the Vortex Cognitive... Read more
ARDS and Precision Medicine
What is the path forward for treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome... Read more
If you can’t beat them…join them
Encouraging point-of-care ultrasound to diagnose patients and train new... Read more
Unblock the Chain
Blockchain. What diverse reactions the mention of this technology gets both... Read more
Fluids in shock
Fluid management during shock from physiology to bedside. Shock... Read more
Kimberley Applegate
1. What are your key areas of interest and research? Quality, safety... Read more