Electronic Wristbands Could Transmit Vital Data From Disaster Victims
The coloured paper tags used to classify victims of mass casualty incidents may one day be replaced by plastic electronic wristbands capable... Read more
Soft Robotics Lend a ‘Hand’ To Surgery, Drug Delivery
A tiny robotic ‘hand’ made from flexible, partially biodegradable material could assist physicians with remotely guided surgery, and eventually... Read more
XPRIZE Competition Seeks Real-World Tricorders For Innovative Diagnostics
UC San Diego’s Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI) has been named the official testing site for Qualcomm Foundation’s Tricorder... Read more
Smartphone App Screens Breath for Disease Detection
Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology are working on a project which will enable smartphones to screen exhaled breath for... Read more
Web-Connected Pacemakers: The Next Step In Remote Patient Monitoring
An efficient new security protocol for the wireless transmission of data from medical devices has been developed by researchers at the UPV/EHU-University... Read more
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Pros and Cons of Buying an Oracular AI System for Daily Decision-Making in a Hospital Setting
First of all, what is an Oracular Artificial Intelligence (OAI) system? Like any oracle, we describe it as any decision aid capable of providing its users with very accurate responses (ie, no more than one error out of 20) and little or no explanation for that advice. Deep learning systems that analyse masses in mammograms are an example of OAI. The... Read more
Charisma is Outdated Nonsense: Why EXEC Cybersecurity Training is Better than MBA
What would you remove from current business training and education, what would you replace it with and why? I would replace the outdated leadership and ethics courses with a cybersecurity and ethical leadership course, which would reframe the business world and provide the definitions for the new normality. Risk management education would be holistic... Read more
Are Wearables Dangerous for Health?
It’s been repeatedly stressed by healthcare practitioners how beyond a balanced diet and exercise, getting sufficient sleep is vital to our health and wellbeing. There are wearables that can already track our daily activities such as heart rate when we exercise and even the number of steps we have walked that day and the distance. In addition to that,... 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
Two Paths for Medical Device Approval: FDA vs. CE
Several factors influence the length of time it takes for a medical device,... Read more
Preclinical Imaging in the Era of Personalised Medicine
Identification of the genetic basis of the therapeutic response obtained... Read more
Robotic Ultrasound Imaging: Improving Access to Care for Rural and Remote Populations
What is the current situation for Canadians living in remote communities... Read more
RAD-AID International and Global Health Radiology
RAD-AID is a non-governmental organisation with a mission to promote radiology... Read more
Risks in Dietary Supplements
Risks in Dietary SupplementsThe use of natural substances for treatment... Read more
Five Reasons Why Value-Based Healthcare is Beneficial
Patient-centered care is becoming a major topic in healthcare. Many initiatives... Read more
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TeraRecon 3D Print Pack
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Our iNtuition iEMV viewer can display many types of images. It can even do some pretty amazingly advanced things. As a leader in advanced visualization, you can trust that TeraRecon can deliver impressive capabilities, but we strive to make it simple,...