EHR Clinic Notes Need Redesign
Electronic health record documentation tools, including the clinic note that recaps a patient's medical history, should be redesigned to better... Read more
Mayo Clinic and Hootsuite: Staff Social Media Training
Mayo Clinic has partnered with Hootsuite to expand the healthcare group's social media education programme. Through this partnership, the two... Read more
Only Half of Healthcare Leaders Feel Cyberattack Protected
Eighty-one percent of healthcare executives say their information technology has been compromised by cyberattacks during the past two years,... Read more
Can Software Improve Compliance?
Healthcare providers deal with numerous requirements from different regulatory bodies, and having a policy management system can help them stay... Read more
Growth in Online Second Opinion Services
Studies have shown that, overall, about 20 percent of patients seek second medical opinions; in specialties such as oncology, the rate is more... 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
What could possibly go wrong?: Thinking about the risks and benefits of medical treatments
How much do clinicians—and patients—really know about the likely outcomes... Read more
Iodinated Contrast Media: Risks and Best Practice
The aim of administering contrast media in medical imaging is to improve... Read more
Fluid Choices in Brain Injury
Fluid management for acute brain damage has changed profoundly in the... Read more
Redesigning Emergency Ambulatory Care with Point-of-Care Testing: Reduced Costs and Length of Stay
Many patients presenting to the hospital emergency department do not... 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
Personalised Medicine in Intensive Care
The specialty of intensive care medicine grew out of the realisation that... Read more