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,... 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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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
Quality in Practice: Towards a Patient-Centred View
Professor Guidet has been a university medical professor since 1997.... Read more
SOCRATES: An Electronic Evaluation System to Advance Medical Trainees
Developing thorough competency in both specialty and professionalism is... Read more
The Reputation Riddle
While the fruits of a good corporate reputation translate into increased... Read more
Critical Care in Brazil
Brazil is the largest country in South America, and ranks fifth in the... Read more
Radiation Dose: Communicating With Patients
Key Points • Radiology departments need to communicate with patients... Read more
Vasoactive Drugs in Sepsis
In this update review on vasoactive drugs in sepsis, we focus on the... Read more