FDA Moves to Strengthen Cybersecurity of Medical Devices
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a new guidance for medical device manufacturers with regard to managing cybersecurity... Read more
Telehealth Kiosks Connect Patients to Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic is committed to reducing health care expenses and improving access to medical services through a new telemedicine pilot project called... Read more
Consumers Hack Their Own Medical Devices
To overcome the limitations of current technology, "citizen hackers" are now finding ways to hack their medical devices and gain access to data... Read more
Google Glass Software Provides Captions for Deaf Users
Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta (GA, USA) have developed speech-to-text software for Google Glass, allowing hard-of... Read more
'Virtual Breast' Could Improve Cancer Detection
Researchers from Michigan Technological University (MI, USA) have developed a virtual breast — a 3D, computer-generated “phantom” — that would... Read more
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Pros and Cons of Buying an Oracular AI System for Daily Decision-Making in a Hospital Setting
First of all, what is an Oracular Artificial Intelligence (OAI) system? Like any oracle, we describe it as any decision aid capable of providing its users with very accurate responses (ie, no more than one error out of 20) and little or no explanation for that advice. Deep learning systems that analyse masses in mammograms are an example of OAI. The... Read more
Charisma is Outdated Nonsense: Why EXEC Cybersecurity Training is Better than MBA
What would you remove from current business training and education, what would you replace it with and why? I would replace the outdated leadership and ethics courses with a cybersecurity and ethical leadership course, which would reframe the business world and provide the definitions for the new normality. Risk management education would be holistic... Read more
Are Wearables Dangerous for Health?
It’s been repeatedly stressed by healthcare practitioners how beyond a balanced diet and exercise, getting sufficient sleep is vital to our health and wellbeing. There are wearables that can already track our daily activities such as heart rate when we exercise and even the number of steps we have walked that day and the distance. In addition to that,... 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.” In this... 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’sSource & Image Credit: DT Research Read more
From Our Journals
Improving Healthcare: The Role of the Human Factors Specialist
What is human factors? How would you explain to a hospital director why... Read more
Continuous Improvement Team: Papageorgiou Hospital, Thessaloniki
The Importance of Team Work in Healthcare The challenges of organising... Read more
Controlling Patient Workflow in a Radiology Department
For the purpose of protecting patient safety and upholding quality standards... Read more
Medication Safety
All drugs are inherently dangerous. In critical care we give large numbers... Read more
High Altitude Research and its Relevance to Critical Illness
Critical illness can be considered as the body’s failure to compensate... Read more
Quality Management: The Role of Intensive Care Registries
To initiate, maintain and advance a quality improvement programme in your... Read more
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iNtuition iEMV - Universal Viewing
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iNtuition iReview - Overlay PACS Viewing
We can work across many PACS systems. No matter the size of your organization, iNtuition iReview can help you look across your imaging archives and create a unified interpretation view that’s made just for you. The configurable display protocols and user...
iNtuition - Advanced Visualisation Software
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