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.

Survey: Americans evenly split on role of healthcare interest groups in reform

A recent survey found that Americans have mixed feelings on the appropriate roles for various healthcare interest groups in Washington, D.C.

October 1, 2009

Reps offerthen withdrawself referral amendment

Last week, House Energy and Commerce Committees markup of HR 3200Americans Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009Reps. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. and Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, offered, and then withdrew, an amendment to close the in-office ancillary services exception for advanced medical imaging under the Stark law.

September 29, 2009

Vida taps Wood as new CEO, prez

Vida Diagnostics, a developer of quantitative imaging software for the analysis of pulmonary diseases, has appointed Susan A. Wood, PhD, as president and CEO.

September 29, 2009

Achieving Data Integration: Taming the Interoperability Beast (Without Breaking the Bank)

Interoperabilitymaking disparate information systems communicate with each otherrepresents a tremendous undertaking for every 21st century healthcare provider. At the same time, it is a business essential. Whos got the right strategy? Check out some options

September 23, 2009

Mobile Computing at the Point of Care is Getting Wheels

Theyre everywhere. Mobile computers are on the move in the ER and OR, atop carts as physicians make rounds, and in the hands of nurses logging vital signs at the bedside or dispensing meds. With the growing adoption of EMRs, mobile computing use among hospital-based clinicians has moved beyond standalone, knowledge-based applications such as drug reference databases and medical calculators to systems that can increase clinician productivity, reduce errors and eliminate inefficient processes.

September 23, 2009

Senators again eye TCT's Leon for conflicts of interest, unreported income

Amidst the excitement of the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in San Francisco this week comes the news that its co-founder, Martin B. Leon, MD, is once again being investigated for potential conflicts of interest and unreported income from medical device makers.

September 23, 2009

Gregg Stone previews major trials, sessions at TCT

The 21st annual scientific symposium of the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting will open on Monday in San Francisco. Gregg W. Stone, MD, immediate past-chairman of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, which sponsors TCT, highlighted some of the trials and important sessions at next weeks show.

September 17, 2009

Study: Noninsurance means an extra 45,000 deaths annually

A study in today's online edition of the American Journal of Public Health has found that nearly 45,000 deaths annually are associated with a lack of health insurance.

September 16, 2009

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."