Short read: smart contracts in healthcare
For researchers, funding plays an important role in accomplishing their work. In the healthcare industry, many relevant topics do not get... Read more
Network security angst? Ditch your fax
Afraid of committing a security faux pas? Then it may be time to discontinue using those fax machines. New research from Check Point has... Read more
Short read: Patient safety and simple solution to electronic clinical handover
Clinical handover is the transfer of professional responsibility and accountability for some or all aspects of a patient’s care to another... Read more
Cybersecurity tips for insider threats
Healthcare organisations need to take insider security threats seriously. As noted in a recent Verizon report, 60 percent of healthcare... Read more
Short read: The future of augmented reality in healthcare
Smart technologies, including augmented reality (AR), are changing the way healthcare professionals go about their work. Indeed, many nurses... 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
Hypertension – Prevention is Better Than Cure
How can we get the most common, costly, and modifiable cardiovascular... Read more
Physical rehabilitation in the ICU: understanding the evidence
Reviews the latest evidence evaluating physical rehabilitation in the... Read more
Precise Automated Resuscitation with RESPIRA
An innovative solution to ventilator shortages has been found in Spain... Read more
Crossing the Rubicon to a Digitally Enabled Medical Care
The COVID-19 pandemic has become a catalyst for healthcare to embrace... Read more
(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)? COVID-19 ‘Immunity Passports’ through ethical lens
The possibility of introducing the so-called COVID-19 ‘immunity passports’... Read more
Data-driven management for intensive care units
This article focuses on the clinical and practical application of current... Read more