Recover Data with No Ransom: New Initiative
The Dutch National Police, Europol, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab have joined forces to launch the initiative No More Ransom (www.nomoreransom.org).... Read more
Solution ER Overcrowding: Tele-triage
With unpredictable rises in Emergency Department use, one Florida health system brainstormed to develop a strategy to deal with the unexpected... Read more
Demand for Cybersecurity Pros to Rise 18 percent by 2024
The U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) has projected that cybersecurity attacks will see an expansion of the information security professional... Read more
Robot Helps Tricky Nurse Scheduling
A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is taking the... Read more
CIOs in the Boardroom
An article in Modern Healthcare has highlighted the changing role of IT professionals in healthcare management as, with the increasing central... 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
POCUS and SHOCK
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is an invaluable tool to differentiate... Read more
High Altitude Research and its Relevance to Critical Illness
Critical illness can be considered as the body’s failure to compensate... Read more
General Data Protection Regulation and healthcare
What could the new data protection law mean for health sector leaders?... Read more
The Accelerate Pheno™ system in clinical practice: fast and accurate turnaround for critical results
Our clinical experiences of using the Accelerate Pheno™ system have... Read more
Sustainability at heart of healthcare complex
Major hospital project aims to rejuvenate state’s health service ... Read more
Fluids for the Patient with Leaky Lungs
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is characterised by increa... Read more