The American Medical Association has joined with Google to kick off a contest to collect ideas of novel approaches to improving mobile health technology, including wearables and smartphone apps, to improve the flow of information between patients and physicians. The goal is to streamline technology to improve management of chronic diseases.
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Gain some practical advice on implementing a private health information exchange from Denise Abraham, the health information exchange coordinator for The Washington Hospital, a 224-bed hospital in Washington, Pa., and Charles R. Vargo, executive director of the Washington Physician Hospital Organization Inc. (WPHO), which is a joint venture with the hospital and the 250 physicians on the hospital medical staff.
In a lively roundtable discussion, David Cochran, MD, and Robert Fassett, MD, (left to right) touch upon HIEs, ACOs and the need for cleaner data to improve the quality of U.S. healthcare.
GE Healthcare's vascular ultrasound group and Medipattern have signed a definitive collaboration agreement to create ultrasound-based Vascular Imaging Quantification tools (Vascular iQ).
Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) has granted Toshiba Medical Systems a nonexclusive license to patents owned by RCT that broadly cover ultrasound tissue harmonic imaging (THI).
Boston Scientific and Medtronic have settled two lawsuits and signed an agreement to stand down in three others, which will stop all current litigation between the two companies in the fields of interventional cardiology and endovascular repair.
Coronary bypass surgery may carry less risk of serious complications if drug-eluting stents (DES) that suppress cell growth are used in the procedure rather than bare-metal stents (BMS), according to a study published online in January in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has found that Boston Scientific stent patent is invalid, which in part is directed to drug-eluting stents and coating systems.
Boston Scientific has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to supply a full line of its pacemakers and defibrillators.
UnitedHealth Group, in a $50 million settlement with N.Y. Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, has been ordered to overhaul two of its databases used to determine out-of-network reimbursement amounts for certain health plan members.
The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals.
As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, said the clinical community needs to combat health misinformation at a grassroots level. He warned that patients are immersed in a "sea of misinformation without a compass."
