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Digitally Listening to Sound of Lungs

Digitally Listening to Sound of Lungs

Two different devices aimed at improving the quality of a uscultation, the action of listening to sounds from the body, lungs in... Read more

Sociodemographic Differences in Virtual Care Adoption

Sociodemographic Differences in Virtual Care Adoption

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated growth in the use of telemedicine, which helps curb the further spread of the virus. However, as shown... Read more

AI-Augmented Patient Care: Pros and Cons

AI-Augmented Patient Care: Pros and Cons

In healthcare, artificial intelligence (AI) has shown promise in both clinical and administrative applications. Increasing use of AI... Read more

HCL System: Promising Diabetes Technology

HCL System: Promising Diabetes Technology

Hybrid closed-loop (HCL) systems are designed to improve glycaemic control in diabetes patients. HCL settings need to be optimised to... Read more

New Tool from Google Helps with Medical Visit Planning

New Tool from Google Helps with Medical Visit Planning

Google in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ( AHRQ ) is launching a pilot project aimed at helping citizens... Read more

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  Mobile apps in healthcare have become increasingly popular over the past decade due to their ease of use and ability to provide quick access to information at any time and place. They are helping people all over the world to stay on top of their health — both physical and mental.    Some examples of these health apps are Fitbit for tracking... Read more

Many private practitioners are deploying information systems in their private medical facilities to take care of various processes such as patient on-boarding, patient record keeping, patient accounts amongst others. However, there is less effort to ensure that these information systems have the necessary controls to safeguard patients records and... Read more

    Facebook has expanded beyond its original purpose in the modern, ever-changing online world. It's a platform for people to connect and share the tales of their lives. It is also a medium that facilitates the transfer of the latest news, information and knowledge, whether in healthcare, finance, politics or sports.   Adding personalised... 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

My Fundamental Right to Cross-Border Healthcare

2012 27 Aug

Dear Reader, Properly working cross-border healthcare is a fundamental right of every European citizen. This goes hand in hand with the free movement of persons. The European Union has its main focus on IT collaboration with the USA. But HITM feels that this is too narrow. Therefore we have taken the decision to closely collaborate with the Middle... Read more

Spain

2012 27 Aug

University of Granada researchers have developed a  software tool that makes an accurate estimation of  the risk that a person has to suffer a heart disease. In  addition, this software tool allows the performance of  massive risk estimations, i.e. it helps to estimate the  risk that a specific population group has of suffering a  heart condition.... Read more

Telecare in Andalusia

2012 27 Aug

The University Hospital Virgen Macarena of Seville and the  Superior Engineering School of Seville University are jointly  carrying out a new research project for the implementation  of a complete telecare system for kidney patients.   “Modular customisable architecture for complete kidney  patient telecare” will study the implementation of  a telemedicine... Read more

UK

2012 27 Aug

The UK government has announced £4 million of funding  for businesses to develop cutting-edge ideas to address  some of the biggest health problems of our time.  The Department of Health has opened two new competitions with up to £2 million of funding each to develop  technological and innovative solutions that can:   Change people’s behaviour in... Read more

Poland

2012 27 Aug

The Polish Ministry of Health has recently launched  'Dlapacjenta.mz.gov.pl', a portal providing practical information  on the reimbursement of medicines.   Designed as an easy-to-use and convenient information  source on medicines reimbursed by the National  Health fund, patients are the first target group.   Through the new portal, patients have... Read more

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Dr Caterina Corbascio

Mental Health Services Challenged by COVID-19 - Analysis of a Selected Area in Northern Italy

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 Jhordan Molina-Galeote

Analgesia, Sedation and Neuromuscular Blockade in Critically Ill Patients

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Prof. Guy Frija

Quality and Safety In Radiology

A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP Quality of Healthcare Quality healthcare...

 Konstantinos Petsios

AI in Radiology: Realities, Challenges and Perspectives from a Tertiary Cardiac Centre in Greece

An overview of the digitalisation at Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in...

 Anna Malekkidou

How Twitter is Changing the Congress Experience

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Deep Mining for Determining Cancer Biomarkers

The use of omics data for knowledge discovery is an approach that can...

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