Accessory Lens for Google Glass Expands Visual Field
Medical professionals who use Google Glass for training and surgical applications may soon have an expanded visual field, thanks to an accessory... Read more
Strengthening Public Trust in Data Sharing
Biobanks are made all the more valuable when the biological samples they hold can be linked to health information collected in research, electronic... Read more
Facing Facts: Google Unveils New View of Medical Searches
Google announced this week that it plans to improve the way that medical information is presented during online searches. One in every 20 Google... Read more
Smartphone Accessory Detects STDs Via Finger Prick
A new smartphone accessory can rapidly detect three infectious disease markers from a single drop of blood drawn from a finger. The device connects... Read more
Smart Bracelets Monitor Elderly Who Live Alone
Wearable devices are not only for tech-savvy young adults. A new smart bracelet can remotely monitor the health of elderly adults in real-time,... 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
The Inevitable Rise of Outpatient Imaging Centres
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Quality and safety: the role of the board
A new framework for active involvement A new framework from Health... Read more
Beth Boynton
Confident Voices in Health Care Boston, USA Medical improv... Read more
Organisational Development: Achieving Change
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Dangerous Boobs Tour
Breast density was a hot topic at the Radiological Society of North America... Read more