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.
As healthcare reform and big data in medical imaging converge, strategies to facilitate image exchange, mobile access and patient empowerment are essential to improve the quality of patient care. Learn how cloud services can enable improved levels of service, reduce total cost of ownership to redirect capital to other patient-care initiatives and unlock new financial models for growth.
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.
Last week, two major cardiovascular healthcare companiesGE Healthcare and Philips Healthcarereported losses for the 2008 fiscal third quarter. In unveiling their shaky financials, execs from both vendors cited trouble in the credit markets as a reason for problems they face in the U.S. healthcare sector, as hospitals are finding it difficult to get funding for capital equipment purchases.
Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Herb Kohl, D-Wis., have requested that the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), which sponsors Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), and Columbia University, reveal how medical devicemakers have promoted their products throughout the symposiums sessions.
Boston Scientific has reported its financial results for the 2008 third quarter, which ended Sept. 30, as well as its guidance for net sales for the fourth quarter of this year.
Boston Scientific has reported its financial results for the 2008 third quarter, which ended September 30, as well as its guidance for net sales for the fourth quarter of this year.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is investigating alleged FDA shortcomings to request more information about Actavis recalls, including withdrawal of all products from its Little Falls, N.J. plant.
WASHINGTONAfter one year, use of bivalirudin in MI patients, who receive angioplasty, resulted in significantly lower rates of all-cause death, death from cardiac causes, and major bleeding, compared to the standard drug therapy of heparin and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors, according to the HORIZONS AMI trial presented Wednesday at the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium.
WASHINGTONAfter one year, use of a drug-eluting stent (DES) in heart attack patients demonstrated significantly reduced rates of target lesion revascularization and binary angiographic restenosis when compared to the use of a bare metal stent (BMS), according to the HORIZONS AMI trial presented Wednesday at the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium.
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."
