Valuable and Vulnerable: Healthcare Data Breach Forecast
The second annual data breach forecast published by Experian warns of an ongoing threat against data privacy and safety for healthcare organisations... Read more
Hospital Takes Proactive Approach to mHealth App Development
As healthcare entities embrace the ways in which technology can improve care delivery, some institutions are bucking the trend toward software... Read more
Digital Health Ventures Attract $6.5 Billion in 2014
Digital health ventures benefited last year from a 125 percent investment increase over 2013 levels, topping $6.5 billion overall, according... Read more
Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Shows Promising Results
There is no doubt that brain-computer interface technology has the potential to help improve the function and quality of life for people who... Read more
Big Data Tackles Alarm Fatigue
One issue that hospitals across the US have to continually deal with is alarm fatigue, which results from well-meaning but often misguided attempts... Read more
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Advances for information exchange between healthcare organisations
Major healthcare IT vendor Orion Health is amongst the first suppliers accredited by NHS Digital to use a new NHS messaging service ('MESH') to exchange information between health and care systems. Orion Health’s accreditation means that NHS organisations that use its Rhapsody™ Integration Engine can exchange information with other organisations using... Read more
Predictive maintenance in healthcare - If you can predict it, you can prevent it
Predictive maintenance techniques have been introduced in several industries to help determine the condition of equipment that is already in use to predict when maintenance should be carried out. This approach promises cost savings over routine, regular preventive maintenance, because tasks are performed only when necessary, rather than because the... Read more
New photo transfer apps are challenging security perceptions in medicine
In today's medical establishments there are several ad-hoc, but often insecure, approaches to taking photos of patient's ailments in common use, making use of either phone or camera hardware. Most doctors wish to attach the resulting photos to their EHR (Electronic Health Record) systems, and be able to access them again quickly on-screen for a given... 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
Big Data for Health in Europe
In 2010, the European Commission proposed the 10-year strategy, Europe... Read more
Management of Acute Ischaemic Stroke
Defining the Role of the Intensive Care UnitThis review article aims to... Read more
ESGAR Consensus Statement on Liver MR Imaging
Clinical Use of Liver-Specific Contrast Agents The European Society of... Read more
Interoperability: Slow Progress But Willingness to Improve
A mere 6% of clinicians can effectively access information from healthcare... Read more
Enterprise Viewers: Key Pointers
Top tips for selecting and implementing an enterprise viewer to allow... Read more
André Heinz
Global Head of Human Resources – Siemens HealthineersBe passionate about... Read more