Health IT issues for 2016
In his article appearing in MedCity News, Dr. John D. Halamka, chief information officer and dean for technology at Harvard Medical School, discusses... Read more
Telemedicine Improves Doctor-Patient Relationships
People living in rural areas often lack access to modern healthcare, and one approach used to address this problem is telemedicine. New research... Read more
The Future is Coming: Drones and Healthcare
A University of Illinois researcher has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create drones that could perform... Read more
Fitbits Monitor Symptoms in Transplant Patients
A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that activity trackers (eg, Fitbits) can be used to track patients' symptoms... Read more
Are You Paying Your Patients Enough Attention?
Technology is becoming integrated into healthcare processes. In the examination room, for example, use of computers is aimed at promoting safer... Read more
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Pros and Cons of Buying an Oracular AI System for Daily Decision-Making in a Hospital Setting
First of all, what is an Oracular Artificial Intelligence (OAI) system? Like any oracle, we describe it as any decision aid capable of providing its users with very accurate responses (ie, no more than one error out of 20) and little or no explanation for that advice. Deep learning systems that analyse masses in mammograms are an example of OAI. The... Read more
Charisma is Outdated Nonsense: Why EXEC Cybersecurity Training is Better than MBA
What would you remove from current business training and education, what would you replace it with and why? I would replace the outdated leadership and ethics courses with a cybersecurity and ethical leadership course, which would reframe the business world and provide the definitions for the new normality. Risk management education would be holistic... Read more
Are Wearables Dangerous for Health?
It’s been repeatedly stressed by healthcare practitioners how beyond a balanced diet and exercise, getting sufficient sleep is vital to our health and wellbeing. There are wearables that can already track our daily activities such as heart rate when we exercise and even the number of steps we have walked that day and the distance. In addition to that,... 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.” In this... 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’sSource & Image Credit: DT Research Read more
From Our Journals
Standardised, Hospital-Wide Airway Trolleys
Inspired by the Difficult Airway Society Guidelines and the Vortex Cognitive... Read more
Preclinical Imaging in the Era of Personalised Medicine
Identification of the genetic basis of the therapeutic response obtained... Read more
Designing a Hospital Cardiology Outreach Service
The cardiology team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation... Read more
The Creative Promise of Design Thinking
You’re much more imaginative than you think, but your workplace — which... Read more
Patient Identification: Executive Summary
For its fifth Deep Dive analysis of a patient safety topic, ECRI Institute... Read more
Maturity Makes Great Leaders
There is a pressing need for intelligent leaders who are able to deal... Read more
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iNtuition - Advanced Visualisation Software
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TeraRecon 3D Print Pack
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET3D Advanced Visualization is at the core of TeraRecon DNA. We are extending our capability to the 3D printing world with a dedicated image processing workflow to enhance 3D printing outcomes. Printing your model is easier...
iNtuition iEMV - Universal Viewing
Our iNtuition iEMV viewer can display many types of images. It can even do some pretty amazingly advanced things. As a leader in advanced visualization, you can trust that TeraRecon can deliver impressive capabilities, but we strive to make it simple,...
iNtuition iReview - Overlay PACS Viewing
We can work across many PACS systems. No matter the size of your organization, iNtuition iReview can help you look across your imaging archives and create a unified interpretation view that’s made just for you. The configurable display protocols and user...