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
Making impact: 12 emerging AI technologies
Medical imaging, suicide prevention, and acute stroke care are among the new AI applications included in this year's Partners HealthCare "Disruptive Dozen”.... Read more
Game of Thrones anyone? Impacting healthcare data analysis
Students attending a computer science seminar at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) recently embarked on an interesting scientific... Read more
Who calls the shots in healthcare IT purchasing?
A recent survey study by Black Book Market Research provides interesting insights into how digitalisation is radically transforming not... Read more
Part 2: How to be one step ahead of healthcare cyber hackers
A recent report from advisory BDO has highlighted ‘the most underrated cyber threats’ in the healthcare sector. ‘Brace for the Breach’,... 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
Is Videolaryngoscopy the New Gold Standard for Intubation Following the COVID-19 Crisis?
Videolaryngoscopy may be the new gold standard for tracheal intubation... Read more
Transformation of Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg Hospital
Dr Bruno De Peuter, Head of Medical Imaging and Musculoskeletal Radiology... Read more
Jean-Louis Vincent
Editor-in-Chief, ICU Management & Practice Professor of Intensive Care... Read more
Prehospital Care for Cardiac Arrest: How to Improve Outcome
More patient lives have been saved after OHCA in recent years, but the... Read more
Developing the Role of CIO in Healthcare Management: From "the IT Guy" to CIO
The chief information officer (CIO)—also known as the chief digital off Read more
Using Realistic Simulation to Design a New PICU - Building Before Building
Designing the Dream PICU Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (HSJD) is a paediatric... 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...