WHO Report: AI in Health - 6 Guiding Principles for its Design and Use
Ethics and human rights must be a part of the design, deployment, and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the delivery of healthcare, according... Read more
Can We Make Text-Based AI Less Racist, Please?
Last summer, OpenAI launched GPT-3, a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence contextual language model that promised computers would soon... Read more
Can Mobile Health Apps Actually Make Us Healthier?
There is no end to the number of applications available for smartphones, tablets and other digital devices. In recent years, wearable devices... Read more
Trial Shows Value of Early AI-guided Detection of Heart Disease in Routine Practice
Heart disease continues to be a leading cause of illness and death globally. Fast diagnosis is key to early treatment and improved rates of... Read more
World’s Tiniest, Injectable Chip Uses Ultrasound to Monitor Body Processes
Once a thing of science fiction, implantable medical devices are transforming healthcare and improving the quality of life for millions of... 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
Analytics in the real world: How one radiology practice is helping patients get an MR exam, faster
Combining applied intelligence, analytics and technologies enabled a... Read more
Infection Prevention in the ICU
This article highlights four interventions that combat healthcare-associated... Read more
Can Goal-Directed Therapy solve the economic burden of postsurgical complications?
How effective are less invasive or even noninvasive methods? The... Read more
Nutrition Monitoring
Most important when monitoring nutrition is to decide upon the nutritional... Read more
Critical Care Medicine in Sri Lanka
An Evolving Specialty Sri Lanka is steadily progressing to establish... Read more
Developing Connected Healthcare Systems and Accelerating Digital Transformation
With urban populations increasing worldwide and technology making... 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...
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Comarch Diagnostic Point High demand for accessible and convenient healthcare has led to the rapid development of telemedicine services. Among these services are diagnostic points, which allow proper care to be provided to patients – anywhere,...