Clinicians and AI: Finding New Roles
Applications of artificial intelligence in medicine (AIM) continue to increase, including diagnosis generation, treatment selection, disease... Read more
Applying ML to Study India’s COVID-19 Policies
The nudge theory is known to be useful in effecting behaviour change. Using the nudge of ‘nationalism’ in the fight against COVID 19, the... Read more
FDA Focusses on Digital Health with New Centre of Excellence
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems around the world have seen the surge in digital health. This new trend, however,... Read more
How Does Your EHR Affect Quality and Outcomes?
Use of electronic health records (EHR) systems, even beyond minimum meaningful use (MU) requirements, does not necessarily correspond... Read more
Ambient Intelligence Application in Healthcare
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and contactless sensors are helping to pave the way for use of the so-called ambient intelligence... Read more
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3 Software Solutions to Reinvent Processes in Healthcare
The concept of digital healthcare puts patients, their personal needs and demands for convenience and speed at the centre, which is why investing in custom software solutions is such a popular business strategy today. But digitisation in healthcare is so much more than just a passing trend. Instead, it is a vital ingredient of the success of each healthcare... Read more
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
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Thales’s End-to-End Comprehensive Offer for Connected Radiology
2022 15 Jun
As in many sectors, the COVID crisis has substantially changed the way of working, with an increasing need for digital solutions to guaranty continuity of services. The same applies for the medical domain. During the pandemic, clinicians maintained the link with patients, conducting remote consultations, but raising a huge concern with... Read more
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
From Our Journals
Getting Started with a Health Blog
The Internet is full of blogs. They are multi-themed sites, self-managed... Read more
Does radiology have a bright future?
Do AI and machine learning herald the end of radiology? I could... Read more
Safety first: insights from clinical pharmacists
A critical care pharmacist’s perspective and advice on medication... Read more
COVID-19 Sparked a Digital Health Boom – But Will it Last?
Digital health has experienced a boom during the pandemic, with solutions... Read more
The whole patient? The whole person
I am myself and my circumstances (Ortega y Gasset). Patients... Read more
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medical imaging and new imaging techniques provide radiologists and other diagnosticians with better access to deeper anatomical and clinical details. At the same time, these innovations highlight the need for...