eHealth Tools for Asthma Care in Adolescents
Asthma is a chronic lung disease prevalent among adolescents, yet most interventions have focused on the care of child and adult sufferers.... Read more
Not Everyone Is Ready for Telehealth
With pandemic-induced lockdowns and travel curbs, telemedicine offers a safe and convenient way to meet the healthcare needs of patients... Read more
Care Through ePortal: Best Practice from Ireland
Electronic patient portals (ePortal) enable patients and care-partners (eg, family members) to securely access their health records and... Read more
Remote Monitoring for COVID-19 Symptoms
Wearables such as Fitbit watches and bands are empowering people to better monitor their health and fitness. These mHealth devices are... Read more
Questions to Ask About Chatbots
The application of conversational agents (CAs, or chatbots) in healthcare is just beginning, but there are a number of c linical, legal,... Read more
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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
Is There a Place for Healthcare in the Metaverse?
Towards a metahealth industry? The announcement by Mark Zuckerberg on October 28, 2021 that Facebook would become an entity called “meta” has triggered an immediate interest about the possibilities of the inclusion of healthcare in such ecosystem. At this stage, most people in the tech world are aware of the notion of metaverse:... 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
Healthcare People Management - Preparing today’s professionals for tomorrow
Recent paradigmatic shifts in society as a whole and healthcare in... Read more
New Antibiotics for Abdominal Infections: What Can We Expect?
Recently a number of new antibiotics or combinations for complicated... Read more
Lessons from COVID-19: ICU Preparedness, Ethical Issues and Digital Congresses
Jean-Louis Vincent is a Consultant in the Department of Intensive Care... Read more
Circadian Rhythm Disruption: Impact in Healthcare Workplaces
IMPACT IN HEALTHCARE WORKPLACES Circadian Rhythm The Read more
Fostering Geriatric Medicine in Europe
People are living longer, partly due to advances in medicine. On the... Read more
Antimicrobial Stewardship in the ICU
Treating patients with multidrugresistant (MDR) pathogens is an increasing... Read more