Goals of Federal Health IT Strategic Plan
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has finalised its strategy for the next five years. The Federal Health IT Strategic... Read more
Connecting Healthcare Data - Interoperability
While people often take for granted the convenience of being able to withdraw money from an ATM hundreds of miles from home or call someone in... Read more
HIMSS Stage 6 and 7 Hospitals in Summit Focus
The HIMSS Europe CIO Summit will be celebrating its 6th year next month in Spain. This annual event which brings together leading European IT... Read more
IOM Report: IT Can Support Better Diagnosis
“A well-designed health IT system can facilitate timely access to information, communication among health care professionals, patients, and... Read more
Innovation for Hospital IT Solutions
Innovative ideas in healthcare lead to more efficiency and better delivery of care, and hopefully improved outcomes. Many healthcare innovations... 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
Professor Bernd Hamm, ECR President
1. What are your key areas of interest and research? Supporting and promoting... Read more
Exploring the Future of Radiology
ESR TO LAUNCH NEW JOURNAL, EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL Medicine is... Read more
Healthcare Without Borders
Dear Reader, As the world’s largest representative body for senior hea... Read more
Alain Cribier
Pioneering Interventional CardiologistDon’t undertake a project unless... Read more
Benefits of CRM education and simulation in intensive care and emergency medicine
First developed in aviation, CRM education facilitates prevention of accidents... Read more
In Small Doses
Reducing dose to improve the long-term health and Safety of preemies and... Read more