NHS Digital Transfers Key Health Services to AWS Cloud
NHS Digital has announced the transfer of e-Referral Service (e-RS) and NHS 111 Directory of Services onto Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud... Read more
WEF Proposes 4 Cybersecurity Measures For 1 Billion Users
As the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting continues in Davos , Switzerland, the global private-public organisation has announced four... Read more
German Doctors To Prescribe Health Apps in ‘World First’
The German healthcare system is undergoing several digital upgrades this year in order to improve the service. One of the key features... Read more
Most Companies Have No AI Plan: WEF Promotes AI Toolkit
Global technology investment is rising to $52bln in the next three years, and expected to double the annual growth rates of major economies over... Read more
Big Data in Breakthrough Cancer Detection Tool
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have used big data analytics to devise a personalised tool for prediction of cancer,... 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
Groundbreaking Pain Management Initiatives in Europe
The Active Citizenship Network has launched a prize for good practices... Read more
The role of social media in cardiology
Social Media is gaining significant popularity amongst the medical... Read more
The role of disruptive and hybrid technologies in acute care
Section Editor Theodorus Kyprianou introduces the “Informatics and Technology Read more
Patient safety culture
Radiographers’ perceptions Research to evaluate radiographers’... Read more
The Metabolic Phenotype of Skeletal Muscle During Early Critical Illness
The Muscle UK Critical Care program was set up 10 years ago and focused... Read more
COVID-19: Data Uncertainty and Effectiveness of Interventions
Summary: For the past 15 years Prof. Andy Tatem has been working with... Read more
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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...