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Mobile health – a potentially disruptive technology ?

Mobile health or mHealth has recently become one of the fastest growing and potentially disruptive segments of healthcare technology. Some typical mHealth segments include medication reminders, remote patient monitoring and wellness management. Key challenges faced by mHealth include data storage and management, network availability and maintenance, compatibility and interoperability. The single biggest issue however is […]

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Digital breast tomosynthesis – evidence of superiority versus mammography, but more research needed

Digital tomosynthesis creates a three-dimensional (3-D) picture using X-rays. In this respect, tomosynthesis is close to a CT (computed tomography) scan. Nevertheless, there are differences between the two. In fact, the development of CT is considered to be one of the reasons for a decline in interest in tomosynthesis, until recently. One of the principal […]

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Hospital security in the 21st century – from cybertheft to bio-terror

Hospitals straddle a unique crossroads in terms of cybersecurity, crime and potentially, terror. In spite of a rapid shift to computerized prescriptions and electronic records, the hospital business is inherently complex, marked by privacy constraints as well as legacy IT infrastructure. In an era of cost cuts, hospital managers have also been tempted more by […]

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Who needs a mammogram?

Breast cancer is the most common female cancer globally, with one woman in eight in the West eventually developing the disease. However improved screening programmes allowing earlier detection and treatment have greatly contributed to the steadily decreasing breast cancer mortality observed from the 1980s on. Although alternative imaging modalities are available, the current gold standard […]

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The hazards of radiation exposure in the cath lab

The medical device industry is continually improving diagnostic imaging systems in order to lower radiation dose without compromising image quality, and both company articles and studies by cardiologists published in peer-reviewed journals stress the benefits for patients. However, much less emphasis is given to radiation exposure of relevant healthcare workers, a problem that is particularly […]

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How to reduce hospital noise at neonatal units

Hospital noise is an issue for babies born prematurely who are at high risk when it comes to external influences such as noise. Their systems are underdeveloped and they need as much sleep and rest as possible to recuperate. This is one of the reasons why the Neonatal Unit at the highly specialized Rigshospitalet hospital […]

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Shear wave elastography – reducing need for invasive biopsy

Liver disease is a growing problem across the world. It includes a large range of disorders, such as fatty liver disease (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic), drug-induced liver damage, primary biliary cirrhosis and hepatitis (viral and autoimmune). Biopsy is gold standard for liver disease Fibrosis is a relatively common consequence of chronic liver diseases, and its […]