Telehealth Improves Obstetric and Gynecologic Health Outcomes
Advances in telecommunications technology are paving the way for wider implementation of telemedicine or telehealth programmes. A new systematic... Read more
NHS Approves Free Healthcare Message App
The NHS has an ongoing campaign to phase out the use of legacy systems, such as pagers and fax machines, across the entire health service.... Read more
Healthcare Falling Short in Patient Digital Experience
In this era of digital technology, consumerism in healthcare means patients expect the same kind of seamless digital experience they get when... Read more
HIMSS Cancelled Due to Coronavirus Concerns
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) announced today that its global health conference scheduled to take place... Read more
President Trump to Speak at HIMSS20 as COVID-19 Crisis Deepens
HIMSS has confirmed that President Donald Trump will speak at its annual North American event next week. The address marks the... 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
How Data Intelligence Will Be Crucial for Predicting the Next Pandemic
Artificial intelligence developments in machine and deep learning... Read more
Healthcare Worker 4.0: Redesigning Jobs for the Future
Healthcare needs to change to meet demographic shifts, increasing demand... Read more
COVID-19 Management
As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the globe, spreading to new... Read more
The Serious Public Health Consequences of Health Disparity
As hospitals and clinics rebuild and reorganise from the public... Read more
Respiratory physiotherapy in critically ill patients
Respiratory pathologies are among the most common causes of admission... Read more