IT/Tech

From AI-based image analysis to virtual therapies: Find out how digitalisation and cutting-edge IT solutions advance the medical landscape.

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Article • Medical Taiwan 2025: Company and product showcase

Transformative health solutions on display in Taipei

At Medical Taiwan 2025, manufacturers attracted attendees with a wide range of innovations. We took a closer look at some of the most exciting companies and their products on display at the medical,…

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News • Targeted drug delivery

Wireless NFC implant delivers chemotherapy deep into tumors

Korean researchers have developed a wireless implantable drug delivery system that enable chemotherapy drugs to penetrate deep into solid tumors—without harming surrounding healthy tissue.

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News • Beyond visible light

Hyperspectral LED endoscope to better detect GI cancers

Beyond the visible spectrum: A new LED-based hyperspectral imaging system shows promise for gastrointestinal cancer detection during endoscopy.

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Article • Technology applications

Medical 3D printing: from niche to mainstream

From personalized medical guides and implants to advanced surgical planning solutions: 3D printing and visualization has seen considerable growth over the past years and is already making a significant impact in healthcare. AI, cloud, and virtual/augmented reality technologies show promise to further advance the number of applications. However, many hospitals find it challenging to implement these technologies into their established clinical workflows and reimbursement structures.

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News • Environmental monitoring

New generation of smart sensors introduced

Manual calibration and parameter input in systems are time-intensive and error-prone, posing significant challenges across life sciences and hospitals. With a new generation of sensors, The Dickson…

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Article • Realising the potential of Smart Hospitals

Digital technology to optimize use of hospital space

From identifying under-utilized rooms to tracking spare mobile equipment like wheelchairs, spatial awareness technology is evolving to improve day-to-day operations on healthcare sites. The…

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News • Autonomous system trained on surgical videos

Robot performs realistic surgery without human help

A potentially transformative advancement in surgical robotics: A robot trained on videos of surgeries successfully performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help.

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Article • Digital resilience

Healthcare cybersecurity: from basics to best practices

Building resilience for digitally driven healthcare: At the HETT (Healthcare Excellence Through Technology) North conference in Manchester, leading IT specialists highlighted the need for high levels of education, awareness and vigilance among healthcare staff in the fight to protect systems against cyberattack.

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Article • Technology impact in emergency medicine

Emergency radiology reports – AI to the rescue?

As Emergency Departments (EDs) get ever busier, focus has fallen on the role artificial Intelligence (AI) can play in supporting patients and clinicians in delivering urgent care. The topic took centre stage in a session looking at the ethics of AI in the ED at the annual congress of the European Society of Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) in Copenhagen.

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News • LLM exaggerations and overgeneralizations

Generative AI routinely blows up science findings

Reading an LLM-generated recap to get the gist of a scientific publication? Not a good idea, a new study finds: Most leading chatbots exaggerate the findings – prompting for more accuracy even makes things worse.

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Article • Conversational AI in medicine

How to teach an LLM to think like a clinician

While generative AI shows immense potential for healthcare, a critical reliability issue lurks beneath the surface: LLMs don't think like doctors do, a data science expert explained at the Emerging Technologies in Medicine (ETIM) congress in Essen. This potentially fatal flaw, however, may be fixable, he suggested.

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