Cardiac IT consolidation slows down
Consolidation of various cardiology IT solutions is part of quality improvement initiatives of large medical centres and health systems. However,... Read more
More than 50% EU hospitals underfund IT
Hospitals across Europe in general consider IT as an enabler to improve patient safety and care. And even though deployment of big-ticket... Read more
What lies ahead in 2018 for HIT?
Rapid changes in the general populace and in the states of health and well-being, largely driven by technological advancements such as the... Read more
Telehealth utilisation growing across range of settings
Recent developments in the United States have led to growing utilisation of telehealth in an array of clinical settings. Congress has taken... Read more
European Hospital Conference – MEDICA: EU eHealth 2020 plan takeaway insights
This week the international healthcare trade fair, MEDICA, was held in Düsseldorf, Germany. eHealth was a key topic with an important... Read more
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Digital Healthcare Focus: European Hospitals on Fire (FHIR) EMH-onFHIR
In this space I will explore monthly topics, from concepts to technologies, related to the necessary steps to build Digital Healthcare Systems. For this month, I have invited Mr Giorgio Cangioli to co-author a brief article on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), as hospitals and their interconnections are a critical asset and next... Read more
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
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
Hospital Readmissions and Machine Learning
The need to improve the efficiency of the healthcare services has emerged... Read more
Agfa HealthCare Introduces XERO Universal Viewer & Microsoft Teams Integration During COVID-19
Agfa HealthCare and Microsoft Teams have partnered up to provide new... Read more
Canadian Researchers at the End of Life Network (CARENET)
Interview with Professor Daren Heyland The Canadian Researchers... Read more
Alain Cribier
Pioneering Interventional Cardiologist Don’t undertake a project... Read more
Albumin Administration in Sepsis: The Case for and Against
Serum albumin is an essential plasma protein, with a variety of homeostatic... Read more
It is time for improved fluid stewardship
A conceptual framework for developing institutional programmes and guidelines... Read more