HIMSS Women in IT Awards
In recognition of women "who have made a difference" in health IT, the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has announced... Read more
FDA Guidance for Mobile Devices
Amid criticism that it was not doing enough to address the cyber vulnerabilities in medical devices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration... Read more
Biggest Health Data Hacks of 2016
Cybercriminals were able to break into records of nine providers and a business associate in 2016. The number of records accessed was down... Read more
Tips for Hiring Top HIT Staff
Hospitals do what they can to recruit the best doctors and nurses. However, it's just as important to attract the right people to take care... Read more
‘No More Ransom’ Grows: Thousands of Users Get Hacked Data Without Paying
The 'No More Ransom' campaign, jointly set up by Intel Security, Kaspersky Lab, Europol and the Dutch National police in the summer has... 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
Noninvasive Ventilation
In less than two decades noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) has... Read more
Strategic product approval for health companies and regulators
Streamlining regulation for better healthcare outcomes Rationalising... Read more
Hot Topics in Intensive Care in Turkey
In Turkey intensive care was not a separate specialty for years, and was... Read more
Physiotherapy Services in the Australian ICU
Physiotherapists are key members of the Australian intensive care unit... Read more
Big Data and Cognitive Computing at Point of Care
The future of primary care in the global health approach Background... Read more
Guest Editorial
Cancer In 17 countries of the European Union, cancer has overtaken c... Read more