Weve been hearing about personalized medicine for the past several years. Meanwhile, those focused on interoperability, connectivity and information exchange discuss the benefits of disease registries and better capabilities in tracking populations. It seems that the juncture of these two efforts will produce the most improvements in patient outcomescare tailored to each patients specific condition backed by data-driven evidence-based medicine.

Multiple pending Congressional bills call for the repeal of the 2.3 percent medical device excise tax set to kick in next New Years Day, but industry lobby group AdvaMed isnt holding its breath. On May 3, the groupa very insistent opponent of the taxfiled 22 pages of comments with the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) amplifying previous input it has offered and suggesting ways the tax can at least be rendered less burdensome.

AT&T has signed an agreement with telehealth services developer Valued Relationships (VRI) for a remote patient monitoring service to assist with the management of chronic diseases.

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ruled May 1 that it would cover transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) under its Coverage with Evidence Development, but the agency included a series of conditions that must be met to receive reimbursement.

A hundred years ago, the founding principle of Children’s Medical Center Dallas (CMCD), Texas, was the radical notion that children required specialized health care. Today, in a metropolitan area that is expected to experience a pediatric patient growth rate of more than double the national average, coordinating the various mechanisms that deliver

CT-induced cancer is always a concern when imaging younger patients, but an analysis of radiation risks has shown that young patients who undergo chest or abdominopelvic CT are more than 35 times more likely to die of their disease than develop a radiation-induced cancer, according to a study presented May 1 at the annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in Vancouver.

NEWTON, Mass.Everyone has their professional trials. Is yours your device alarm system? As more devices infiltrate hospitals, many are becoming too sensitive and triggering false-positive alarms that plague staff, said Mary L. White, RN, MBA, senior risk manager at Brigham & Womens Hospital in Boston, during an April 26 presentation at the 22nd Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Nursing sponsored by the American Heart Association (AHA).

An array of historical and global approaches provides viable models for developing local policies to promote and improve radiation safety among pediatric patients, according to a commentary published in the May issue of American Journal of Roentgenology.