Medical Imaging to Benefit from Deep Learning

Thanks to the advent of electronic medical records (EMRs), arguably one of the biggest challenges faced by clinicians and the medical establishment today is the ever-growing stream of patient data and the resulting overload of such information. Take for instance medical image data. Each patient’s image collection has an average of 250GB of data meaning …

Connectivity: The One Word Transforming Healthcare

It’s fair to say that patient care depends on healthcare connectivity. Every person who visits a doctor or picks up a prescription generates data that are assembled to form a complete profile of that person. Any break in the data chain and it’s the patient who suffers. Thankfully, we live in an age of growing …

Teleradiology platforms with blockchain – the business case

Teleradiology is ripe for blockchain. Healthcare image diagnosis and treatment is based on trust; It could be based on truth. Let’s explore how. Teleradiology, or remote radiology service, is the future of radiology. Information technology has been the genesis of radiology and nuclear medicine. Night-hawk services have changed the future of work for radiology. All …

Is the power of health technology outpacing laws and regulations?

On behalf of Philips I recently wrote a letter to Andrus Ansip, European Commissioner for Digital Single Market and Vice President of the European Commission. In this letter I share some of the shifts we believe are necessary to help moving towards a connected care needed to ensure a sustainable, patient-centered healthcare system. I thought it …