Staff Training to Prevent Hacking Attacks
Insider-caused breaches have proved to be costly for a number of companies, according to a report from cybersecurity firm Forcepoint.... Read more
Risk Management: Cybersecurity
A cyberattack does not occur spontaneously for it requires some planning and preparation. These attacks make use of a variety of techniques,... Read more
Artificial Intelligence: Explosive Growth
Artificial intelligence is fast becoming integrated in the delivery of healthcare, and increasing use of the technology is expected to... Read more
Hackers Target Junior Staff
Cybercriminals are adjusting their social engineering tactics to focus on the more vulnerable members of an organisation: the junior staff.... Read more
Outsourcing: HIT Talent Shortage
The current infosec staffing crisis has led to hospitals' increasing reliance on service providers to help them with IT and data security operations.... Read more
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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
Digital Marketing and Medical Devices
Important response to COVID-19 The thought of returning to pre-COVID conditions is on everyone’s mind. This includes business owners who have been hard hit by the pandemic. However, they have also pivoted and acclimatised well during this period. They have been able to do so through, among other things, digital marketing. The... 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 COVID-19 Has Taught Me…
A personal narrative of Adrian Wong’s experience while battling COVID-19... Read more
Revolutionizing Orthopaedic Imaging
What are the main areas of EOS Imaging’s business interest? Bringing... Read more
Top killers
In healthcare, the tendency is more on managing events after they... Read more
Hospital Finance: Managing in the Current Financial Climate
Alternative financing at hospital level can make a difference.... Read more
Benchmarking: Lessons Learnt
Benchmarking —comparing your own results with those of others—has the... Read more
Space technology meets healthcare
How the UK Space Agency is contributing to healthcare. England’s... Read more