The State of the Learning Healthcare System
The vision of the “Learning Healthcare System”, established nearly a decade ago, aims to promote a system by which research is integrated rapidly... Read more
Bio-sensing Technology Gives Patients the Power
Two new bio-sensing technologies were presented at Elsevier’s 4th International Conference on Bio-Sensing Technology in Lisbon, Portugal. These... Read more
Survey: Increasing Use of Health IT Among Doctors
Physicians have become more proficient with electronic health records (EHRs) and are increasingly using healthcare IT functions that help them... Read more
Improving Treatment of Life-Threatening Bleeding
U.S. researchers have successfully field tested a system that analysed patient vital signs during emergency transport, finding that it could... Read more
Multiple Perspectives on Decision Support
Computerised clinical decision support (CDS) has been shown to improve healthcare processes and outcomes in a number of studies, although its... 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
Turning burnout into bright futures
Why burnout needs to be addressed now and not later Burnout in... Read more
Healthcare Business International 2018: The new global healthcare landscape
The new global healthcare landscape HBI 2018 focused on problems... Read more
The Impact of Fast MIC Evaluation on Antimicrobial Stewardship: A Case Report
Dealing with Antimicrobial Resistance Recently antibiotic res... Read more
U.S. Healthcare to be Trumped UP!
(even more so than under Obamacare) Now approaching 20% of gross domestic... Read more
Safe Transport of Critically Ill Patients
The transport of critically ill patients for diagnostic or therapeutic... Read more
The role of speech and language therapy in critical care
The role of speech and language therapists (SLTs) in critical care can... Read more