Telehealth utilisation growing across range of settings
Recent developments in the United States have led to growing utilisation of telehealth in an array of clinical settings. Congress has taken some... Read more
European Hospital Conference – MEDICA: EU eHealth 2020 plan takeaway insights
This week the international healthcare trade fair, MEDICA, was held in Düsseldorf, Germany. eHealth was a key topic with an important session... Read more
Protecting medical devices from malware attacks
In today's interconnected environment, protecting healthcare IT systems against malware attacks seems to be an uphill task for infosec professionals.... Read more
How to plan an EHR go-live for success
A hospital is also a business enterprise – it generates revenues and allots a budget for operational expenses. As its services and operations... Read more
Common cybersecurity weak spots and how to tackle them
Maintaining the safety and protection of IT systems that keep important health information requires discipline. This is especially true in this... Read more
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Advances for information exchange between healthcare organisations
Major healthcare IT vendor Orion Health is amongst the first suppliers accredited by NHS Digital to use a new NHS messaging service ('MESH') to exchange information between health and care systems. Orion Health’s accreditation means that NHS organisations that use its Rhapsody™ Integration Engine can exchange information with other organisations using... Read more
Predictive maintenance in healthcare - If you can predict it, you can prevent it
Predictive maintenance techniques have been introduced in several industries to help determine the condition of equipment that is already in use to predict when maintenance should be carried out. This approach promises cost savings over routine, regular preventive maintenance, because tasks are performed only when necessary, rather than because the... Read more
New photo transfer apps are challenging security perceptions in medicine
In today's medical establishments there are several ad-hoc, but often insecure, approaches to taking photos of patient's ailments in common use, making use of either phone or camera hardware. Most doctors wish to attach the resulting photos to their EHR (Electronic Health Record) systems, and be able to access them again quickly on-screen for a given... 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
Will the Hospital of the Future Be Our Home
Already, healthcare is being outsourced to the home in a bid to encourage... Read more
Circadian Rhythm Disruption: Impact in Healthcare Workplaces
IMPACT IN HEALTHCARE WORKPLACES Circadian Rhythm The Circadian rhy Read more
MRI Safety: Professionals, Practice, Credentialing
“The safe modality.” That’s what MRI is frequently referred to as. In a... Read more
The Care Continuum
Thinking Digitally IT is critical to the way Philips designs, develops... Read more
Happy staff, safe patients
An interview with Dr. Umesh Prabhu. Leading NHS medical director, Dr.... Read more
Bringing live music to adults and children across healthcare
Founded in the same year as the NHS and celebrating its 70th birthday in 2018,... Read more