Computer Use LInked to Patient Satisfaction
A new study appearing in JAMA Internal Medicine indicates that high computer use by clinicians in safety-net hospital clinics is associated... Read more
Focus on Health IT Outsourcing to Cut Costs
The growing need for more sophisticated electronic health records, analytics and population health management is leading health organisations... Read more
App Helps Reduce Suicidal Thoughts in Stressed Interns
New doctors working round the clock during their internship experience a predictable sharp rise in stress and pressure, which often leads to... Read more
EXPAND: Key EU Project Presents Findings on Interoperability
An exciting event about the future of interoperability in the European Healthcare sector takes place in Lisbon next week with a focus... Read more
Payment Barriers Deter Telehealth Adoption
A national survey found that 9 out of 10 physicians in the U.S. would use telehealth, provided they were properly reimbursed. The majority of... Read more
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Healthcare of the future: Disney’s ‘Black Mirror’
We are getting used to hear that all sorts of technological innovations will help men and women live almost eternally without suffering: magic seeds, like the beans in the fairy tale, that grow without water and with therapeutic properties; colour pills that will extend our lives beyond 200 years; gene therapies that will eliminate cancer; brain... Read more
What must the NHS do to survive another 70 years?
Politician Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, famously asserted at the service’s birth in 1948, “If a hospital bedpan is dropped in a hospital corridor in Tredegar, the reverberations should echo around Whitehall.” Southeast Wales is less than 260 miles from London; it would have to be one very noisy reverberation... Read more
GDPR: Risk and accountability
What could the new data protection law mean for health sector leaders? The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on 25 May 2018, replacing the 1995 Data Protection Directive. Directly binding and applicable in all EU states, the GDPR aims to protect the data and privacy of the European population by giving... 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
Treating Complications from Abdominal Surgery
Case Report Using Nonbronchoscopic BAL Use of the HALYARD* Mini-BAL... Read more
Editorial Board Welcomes New Member
Prof. Flavia Machado has recently been welcomed to the Editorial Board... Read more
The Recertification Process of a Chest Pain Unit (CPU)
With chest pain a leading reason for an emergency room visit, what is... Read more
Click, like, retweet: healthcare reputation online
Making social media work for your organisation Leading healthcare social... Read more
Ann Marie O'Grady: New Healthmanagement.Org Exec Editor-In-Chief
Meet HealthManagement.org's new E-i-C for EXEC and find out what she... Read more
Revolutionising cardiovascular medicine
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) on eHealth and how it is disrupting... Read more