Digital Transformation

This evolution of healthcare involves using technology to improve diagnosis, treatments, monitor patients, enhance hospital operations and culture, and bolster consumer-focused care. This includes virtual reality tools, wearable devices, workflow software, health apps and other digital health tools.

AdvaMed itemizes AI imperatives for ‘the entire healthcare ecosystem’
If you work with healthcare AI, you owe it to patients, families and communities to keep certain principles top of mind in everything you do.
6 things high-achieving orgs do to wring real value from AI
What makes an organization an AI leader? Demonstrating success in one of two pursuits.
A modest proposal to rally AI regulators around a simple game plan
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.”
4 points crucial to the nimble regulation of GenAI
With generative AI coming into its own, AI regulators must avoid relying too much on principles of risk management—and not enough on those of uncertainty management.
5 tips to learn AI from scratch and for free
There’s no shortage of resources for healthcare workers who wish they knew AI well enough to talk shop with the technology pros who develop the models. The problem is weeding through the offerings to get to what will really work for you.

Radcal to distribute Leeds Test Objects new dental CT phantom

Monrovia, Calif.-based Radcal, best known as a manufacturer of radiation measuring systems, has agreed to distribute the Sedentex CT Mini imaging phantom manufactured by Leeds Test Objects of North Yorkshire, England.

January 20, 2012

ECRI to hospitals: If youre not Tweeting, youre bleeding (opportunities)

More than 1,000 hospitals have embraced online social networking. Its as much for them as for the 4,700 or so that have avoided the resource that ECRI Institute has released a new risk analysis, "Social Media in Healthcare," and made it available for free downloading.

January 20, 2012

Covidien expands voluntary recall of brain sensors

Following up on a November 2011 voluntary recall of nine lots of its BIS bilateral brain sensors, Covidien has expanded the lot count to 58.

January 19, 2012

BAFS: Ablation complications down, but patients outcomes are similar

BOSTONSince 2003, fluoroscopy times and complication rates of ablation procedures have decreased; however, managing to keep patients atrial fibrillation (AF)-free post-ablation still needs work, according to data presented at a poster session Jan. 13 at this years Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium (BAFS).

January 13, 2012

FDA oks Konica Minolta CR mammography system

The FDA has cleared Konica Minolta Medical Imagings Xpress CR Digital Mammography upgrade.

January 13, 2012

NIBIB adds three new members to advisory council

Three new members have been appointed to the National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NACBIB) of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).

January 12, 2012

New Holter monitor nets FDA OK from Cardiac Science

Opto Circuits of Bengaluru, India, has earned FDA approval to sell a new Holter monitor through its American subsidiary, Cardiac Science of Bothell, Wash.

January 10, 2012

New negative-pressure wound device hits the market

The FDA has cleared Smith & Nephew to sell its single-use Pico device for treating wounds in the U.S.

January 10, 2012

Around the web

Cardiovascular Business

Payment cuts and beyond: Key takeaways for cardiologists from the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

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.

AI in Healthcare

A modest proposal to rally AI regulators around a simple game plan

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.”

Cardiovascular Business

FDA commissioner urges clinicians to join fight against medical misinformation

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."