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.
Only about half of Medicaid recipients age 50 and older appear to receive recommendations from their primary care physicians to undergo screening tests for colorectal, breast and cervical cancer, according to a report in the October 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA), at the request from the EuropeanCommission, has performed an analysis on the current shortage ofradiopharmaceuticals in the European Union to develop potentialsolutions.
The U.S. District Court in Delaware has awarded Johnson & Johnson (J&J) damages totaling $406.7 million and pre-judgment interest totaling $296 million from Boston Scientific and $521 million from Medtronic, in a case involving a stent patent owned by J&J.
Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG), which operates the recently shuttered nuclear reactor in Petten, in northwestern Netherlands, announced Wednesday it would not restart the reactor before the end of October.
Boston Scientific scored a major victory in an ongoing patent disputewith Medtronic involving balloon catheters and stent delivery systems,when the judge reduced the award from $250 million to $19 million.
The Cleveland Clinic has made the decision to allow its stentdistribution deal with Boston Scientific to expire, as the choice forstents in 2008 has broadened by 50 percent.
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute and the EPFL inSwitzerland have developed a way of producing extremely detailed x-rayimages, or ‘dark field’ images, using conventional imaging equipment,which could be of use in a number of applications, including medicalimaging and security screening.
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."
