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.

Study: Five solutions to patient safety change initiatives

Researchers identified five solutions to issues encountered during the implementation of procedures to reduce transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in six intensive care units. Those lessons can serve as building blocks for future change initiatives, authors asserted in a study published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemology.

August 17, 2011

Cleveland Clinic spinoff to develop umbilical cord stem cell tool

Cleveland Clinic spinoff ImageIQ has partnered with its former parent organization, along with the National Center for Regenerative Medicine and the Cleveland Cord Blood Center, to develop software for assessing umbilical cord blood for the potential of its stem cells.

August 16, 2011

U.K. updates HF guidelines: NICE, but are they enough?

The U.K. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has updated its chronic heart failure (HF) guidelines to outline better management strategies of the disease. The guidelines focus on serum natriuretic peptide levels, echocardiography, drug therapy, cardiac resynchronization (CRT), implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) and disease monitoring for HF patient management. Yet, an accompanying editorial questioned whether guidelines will be enough, adding that fully engaging the patient and focusing on values may be just as important.

August 16, 2011

CEO of biomedical testing company resigns abruptly

S. Wayne Kay, CEO of the Vancouver, B.C.-based Response Biomedical, a publicly traded manufacturer of equipment for clinical and environmental testing, has stepped down. Peter Thompson will serve as interim CEO while Responses board of directors oversees a search firm brought in to recruit a new CEO as quickly as possible, according to a press release announcing the transition.

August 15, 2011

Clinical alarm survey in the works

The Plymouth Meeting, Pa.-based Healthcare Technology Foundation (HTF) is surveying healthcare workers who have knowledge of clinical alarm problems.

August 12, 2011

IOM: 510(k) does not ensure device safety, effectiveness

Members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Public Health Effectiveness of the FDA 510(k) Clearance Process defend the findings of its recently released reportwhich recommended the FDA scrap its 510(k) process and start afreshin a perspective published Aug. 10 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

August 11, 2011

Trauma: Moving telemed to ambulances improves trauma care

Telemedicine to a moving ambulance can improve the care of trauma patients, according to research published in the July issue of the Journal of Trauma.

August 10, 2011

AFC debuts swappable power supply

AFC Industries has launched Hot Swappable Power Supply for its point of care, laptop and tablet carts.

August 10, 2011

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."