Contact Tracing: Looking into Technologies and Adoption
The choice of the mobile technology used for contact tracing substantially affects the social and economic cost of quarantine policies,... Read more
Better Outcomes Through Patient Portals
Online patient portals help healthcare providers to reduce the time patients spend in the facility and to cut medical costs, a new study... Read more
COVID-19 Exit Strategy Simulator Available Online
An online tool simulates COVID-19 exit strategy planning for nearly 100 countries assessing various restrictive measures implemented in... Read more
Free Manuals Database for Biomedical Engineers
A website has created a free database of repair manuals for medical devices to help biomedical engineering technicians working on the... Read more
Instant Haemoglobin Count With Smartphone
By pulling down one’s eyelid and assessing its redness, a doctor can identify if the person has anaemia, but to give a precise diagnosis... 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
White Papers and Case Studies
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
Keeping Best Practices in Critical Care During COVID-19
COVID-19 poses several challenges and has made it difficult to measure... Read more
Challenges in the Haemodynamic Management of Septic Shock
An overview of the haemodynamic management of patients in septic shock... Read more
3D printing - an interdisciplinary lab
3D printing will most likely transform the medical field as it presents... Read more
The Care Continuum
Thinking Digitally IT is critical to the way Philips designs, develops... Read more
The Challenge of Admitting a Very Old Patient with Sepsis to an Intensive Care Unit
Sepsis incidence in very old patients is high and related mortality and... Read more
Antimicrobial Copper Touch Surfaces: Reduce Infections, Liberate Resources and Cut Costs
The role of the environment in the transmission of healthcare-associated... Read more
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Comarch Diagnostic Point
Comarch Diagnostic Point High demand for accessible and convenient healthcare has led to the rapid development of telemedicine services. Among these services are diagnostic points, which allow proper care to be provided to patients – anywhere,...
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Augmented Intelligence for radiology workflows
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...