NHS England barriers to interoperability
A new report has identified key barriers to increased interoperability in NHS England, including inadequate technical and clinical standards... Read more
Precision medicine: cracking the code
Three major health systems in the United States have cracked the code to solving some of the barriers precision medicine programmes face,... Read more
Making EHR documentation painless: the role of AI
Use of electronic health record (EHR) is strongly associated with dissatisfaction and burnout among physicians. This is not surprising as... Read more
Boost to England's health cyber security following £150 investment
£150 million will be spent on NHS cyber security over the next three years¸ reducing the impact of an attack, announced t he Department... Read more
Google and Fitbit collaborate on tech and wearables
Fitness wearables and apps help patients to take a more active role in their wellness and chronic disease management. While data from wearables... Read more
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What Have We Learned from the Pandemic? Digital Leadership Competence of the Modern Leader
The classic model of a boss, or someone in charge, focusing on command-control, using the style of rewarding or punishing subordinates, has generated an anachronistic experience in managing human capital while building an environment of psychological security, collaboration, and innovation. These are currently fundamental in the healthcare... Read more
Weighing the Benefits and Drawbacks of Remote Patient Monitoring
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is an emerging branch of monitoring technology that may soon upend how patients receive care, similar to how telehealth altered the path of the healthcare industry forever. Technological advancements are entering the field of healthcare at a rapid pace, with a strong emphasis on remote technologies. Other examples... Read more
Larger Scale Data Management, Decision Support in Patient Care and Health Data Business Models
Summary Not only in the U.S., but also in Germany it is a fact that in the current economic situation of service providers, i.e. with the prevailing liquidity bottlenecks, the proof of the above thesis sounds tempting, i.e. a service provider participating in "data marketing". Obtains valuable information for the treatment of its... Read more
White Papers and Case Studies
Thales’s End-to-End Comprehensive Offer for Connected Radiology
2022 15 Jun
As in many sectors, the COVID crisis has substantially changed the way of working, with an increasing need for digital solutions to guaranty continuity of services. The same applies for the medical domain. During the pandemic, clinicians maintained the link with patients, conducting remote consultations, but raising a huge concern with... Read more
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
From Our Journals
From Independent Attorney to Critically Ill Patient
How Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Changed My Life in a Split Second... Read more
Going from ‘Sickcare’ to ‘Healthcare’
If there is a person who knows all about being at the forefront of health... Read more
Risk and permission: The core of good leadership for the modern day
Roderick Millar shares his innovative approach to leadership, which... Read more
The Creative Promise of Design Thinking
You’re much more imaginative than you think, but your workplace — which... Read more
How to provide better intensive care?
Systems approach and individualised care Professor Jukka Takala, MD,... Read more
Barbara Riegel
Professor and Edith Clemmer Steinbright Chair of Gerontology... Read more