4 tips on Blockchain and GDPR compliance
Blockchain technology has been touted as an important innovation when it comes to storing and securing data, which abounds in healthcare.... Read more
4 top 2019 HIT challenges
While healthcare IT that supports telehealth and remote monitoring are gaining ground, other technology is hardly emerging from the pilot... Read more
How AI can improve EHR dashboards
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being leveraged to enhance the healthcare digital dashboard beyond its provision of a snapshot of patient... Read more
The long road to fostering patient trust in AI
AI’s role in healthcare seems to increase by the day. More than helping manage workflows, the technology can potentially transform how healthcare... Read more
Chatbots: what the future holds
With staffing shortages a perennial problem in many hospitals, it comes as no surprise that patients' interactions with healthcare AI chatbots... 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
Person and family engagement
The key to caring for the whole patient. Person and family engagement Read more
Pursuing a Culture of Safety: The Importance of Self-Regulation
Professional self-regulation is effective when dealing with staff with... Read more
Person-centred approaches: a new core skills training framework
Colin Wright, Framework Development Manager at Skills for Health, provides... Read more
Elderly Care in the ICU: Professor Bertrand Guidet
Professor Bertrand Guidet is Director, Medical Intensive Care, St. Antoine... Read more
Human factor approaches improving EMR usability and satisfaction
The EMR does not have to fail The much-maligned Electronic Medical... Read more
Imaging with EOS®
The Radiologist’s View The Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) acquired... Read more