Secure Text Messaging As Workflow Tool
Physicians who send text messages to other clinicians using their own smartphones risk the privacy and security of the information they send.... Read more
Frost & Sullivan: Connected Life Market Will Drive Change and Growth
Groundbreaking keynote addresses by Genomics England and Google for Work showcasing global leadership in connectivity and convergence driven... Read more
Hospitals’ Facebook Ratings Reflect Care Quality
A study which assessed the relationship between social media and healthcare quality evaluations reveals that hospital ratings submitted by patients... Read more
Patient to Partner: App Tracks Breast Cancer Journey For Research
A new patient-centred app now available for download in the iTunes Apple Store will empower women affected by breast cancer to participate in... Read more
Hospital IT Spending Priorities: Patient Engagement Over Data Security
Patient engagement and population health were among the highest rated issues of importance in a recent survey of hospital decision makers about... 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
Management of Acute Ischaemic Stroke
Defining the Role of the Intensive Care Unit This review article aims... Read more
Lori Fontaine
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Building a new culture of safety
Providing employees with the right environment and skills H... Read more
Sustainability at heart of healthcare complex
Major hospital project aims to rejuvenate state’s health service ... Read more
Five Reasons Why Value-Based Healthcare is Beneficial
Patient-centered care is becoming a major topic in healthcare. Many i... Read more
Early Goal-Directed Therapy Following Cardiac Surgery
Early goal-directed therapy (EGDT) is a therapeutic strategy based on... Read more