Special Lens Turns Smartphone into Microscope
University of Houston researchers have found an easy (and inexpensive) way to transform a smartphone into a microscope: an optical lens made... Read more
Pingmd - Improving Care Coordination and Communication
Clinicians at the Children's Hospital of Orange County, California have adapted a mobile platform that enables them to send notices to parents... Read more
EHR Implementation: Role of 'Super Users'
Electronic health records (EHRs) are designed to improve patient safety and quality of care, but the intended benefits of EHRs are not always... Read more
3D Printed Bone Grafts
A team of college students is working on a way to 3D print bone grafts that will mimic the complex, porous architecture of the skeleton down... Read more
Twitter Can Help Predict ER Visits
Twitter can be a useful tool for hospitals, according to University of Arizona researchers who observed how asthma-related tweets, analysed alongside... Read more
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GDPR: Conducting “big data” research with European health data
As a result of rapid transformations in information technology, medical research is becoming increasingly data intensive. Imagine a researcher- we’ll call him Walden - who is planning, in the year 2020, to carry out a big data analysis on large amount of personal health data stored in datasets and data repositories located in Europe. Walden comes... Read more
GDPR and healthcare cybersecurity: are you prepared?
The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take effect on May 25, 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 control back to citizens and to make the regulatory environment simpler... Read more
Your GDPR Responsibility: tips & tricks
Yes this is yet another notice about GDPR, but read on for advice about online safety management. The most robust laws and regulations won’t protect you if you are not extremely careful about your personal online safety. Here are our top tips to be safe online. Be careful with unknown or questionable sources Always check the sender email and 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
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Philips Launches Minicare I-20 Troponin Blood Test
For Rapid Diagnosis of Heart Attack at the Point of Care Chest pain... Read more
Reinventing breast tomosynthesis
E x p a n d i ng L e a d e r s h i p... Read more
POCTED: Use of Point of Care Test Devices in Emergency Department
Use of point-of-care test devices in the emergency department has shown... Read more
Prepare your hospital for the future
H e a l t h c a r e e x p e r t s... Read more
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Introducing a global healthcare financing perspective Meet Heal... Read more