Financial and practical road blocks fail to stop rise and rise of healthcare AI
The growing impact of artificial intelligence on healthcare is already being felt, even if opportunities for using AI technology are just beginning... Read more
3D Systems and Stryker Partner Up for VSP®
3D Systems and Stryker have announced an exclusive distribution partnership for VSP® (Virtual Surgical Planning) and anatomical models... Read more
'Time saving' EHR copy-pasting must stop
Not a few physicians have raised complaints about the "burden" of EHR documentation. It comes as no surprise that copy and paste in electronic... Read more
Data management: the year ahead
For 2018 privacy and security will continue to be priority areas when it comes to health data management. Moreover, informatics, data analytics,... Read more
How will HIT play out in 2018?
According to experts, some of the healthcare technology trends that grabbed the spotlight in the past year are likely to maintain their momentum... 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
Improving access to safe anaesthesia
Interview with Jannicke Mellin-Olsen, President, World Federation... Read more
Amit N. Thakker
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Medical errors: is prevention possible?
How the Patient Safety Movement is striving for zero preventable deaths... Read more
Enhancing precision medicine: sharing and reusing data
The FAIR4Health project supports wider publicly-funded health data use... Read more
Critical Care Telemedicine: A Management Fad or the Future of ICU Practice?
Critical care telemedicine is likely to be a key feature of the future... Read more
Digital Health Diplomacy in Chained Globalised Health Context
There cannot be a global approach to diseases and health promotion... Read more