Smashing healthcare silos with data
Compared to other industries, healthcare is known to lag behind when it comes to adopting new technology and innovation. This is especially... Read more
AWS Blockchain now available across multiple sectors
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of Amazon Managed Blockchain , a fully managed service that makes it... Read more
How tech streamlines leading healthcare system
Singapore is known to have one of the best healthcare systems in the world. This is evident in its infant mortality rate — which is among... Read more
Improving AI standards in healthcare settings
The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical settings has led tech giants – including IBM, Google and Philips – and healthcare... Read more
Alexa gains HIPAA compliant status
Amazon has amped up the capability of its voice assistant, Alexa , which now boasts about half a dozen new medical skills. For instance,... Read more
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Modern Digital health: Power of Retail Is Taking over Healthcare
It’s time to address the Amazon in the room Anyone who has been to the future can predict what Amazon will do next. However, to the skilled observer, all the pieces are laid out—the elements are on the table. It will simply be a connect-the-dots moment to realise the big bang that we are about to experience. For the last 25 years,... Read more
Digital Healthcare Focus: AI, Medical Liability, in a ‘Moving’ Image
In this space I explore monthly topics, from concepts to technologies, related to the necessary steps to build Digital Healthcare Systems. For the month of April 2021, I have invited João Santinha to co-author a brief article on ‘AI, Medical Liability, in a "Moving" Image’. We dive into the December 2020 topic and focus on the medical liability... Read more
Digital Marketing and Medical Devices
Important response to COVID-19 The thought of returning to pre-COVID conditions is on everyone’s mind. This includes business owners who have been hard hit by the pandemic. However, they have also pivoted and acclimatised well during this period. They have been able to do so through, among other things, digital marketing. The... 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
Agfa HealthCare Introduces XERO Universal Viewer & Microsoft Teams Integration During COVID-19
Agfa HealthCare and Microsoft Teams have partnered up to provide new... Read more
Whistleblowing in healthcare
Although healthcare workers have a responsibility to raise concerns about... Read more
Day of Solidarity to Prevent Suicide
On April 23, 2015, we lost Kevin Dietl to suicide just weeks before Read more
Medical Device Cybersecurity
WHEN WILL YOUR PACEMAKER BE HACKED ? In 2013, the Washington Post... Read more
Happy staff, safe patients
An interview with Dr. Umesh Prabhu. Leading NHS medical director,... Read more
Superheroes: Behind the Scenes of COVID-19
Are the real heroes only those in the hospital actively caring for... Read more