Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
Masimo's MightySat Medical is the first FDA-cleared pulse oximeter available to consumers without a prescription, which could disrupt the market for the notoriously inaccurate at-home devices.
MediView’s technologies utilize AR to provide clinicians with 3D “X-ray vision” guidance during minimally invasive procedures and surgeries, while also offering remote collaboration.
How and when should the FDA regulate mobile medical apps that act as accessories to medical devices? When should it not regulate them at all? Those questions were taken up in a midday panel discussion on day one of FDAs Sept. 12 and 13 workshop on its draft guidance for mobile medical device applications.
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) has sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) outlining their recommendations on the interim final rule (IFR), HIPAA Administrative Simplification: Adoption of Operating Rules for Eligibility for a Health Plan and Healthcare Claim Status Transactions.
After nearly two decades of trial and error, researchers leveraged arterial spin labeling (ASL) perfusion MRI and physostigmine challenge to demonstrate persistent and worsening chronic hippocampal dysfunction in the brains of veterans with Gulf War syndromes, according to a study published online Sept. 13 in Radiology.
Through the use of InterQual Criteria, a clinical decision support tool from McKesson, Banner Health of Phoenix and Morehead Memorial Hospital of Eden, N.C., are creating a common clinical language for payors and providers, and are increasing their collaboration.
AT&T has appointed Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA, as its first CMIO, where she will guide AT&Ts ForHealth strategy for evidence-based medicine, outcomes, disease management and wellness.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected ICD-10 code translation technology from 3M Health Information Systems to assist the federal agency in converting systems, applications, and reports based on ICD-9 diagnosis and procedure codes into ICD-10 language.
Although 90 percent of orthopedic and urology residents did not change CT ordering patterns after attending a one-hour lecture about radiation exposure, radiologists should be encouraged to give radiation lectures to referring physician groups, according to the authors of a study published in the September issue of Academic Radiology.
HHS has thought through the ways AI can and should become an integral part of healthcare, human services and public health. Last Friday—possibly just days ahead of seating a new secretary—the agency released a detailed plan for getting there from here.
Philips is recalling the software associated with its Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry devices after certain high-risk ECG events were never routed to trained cardiology technicians as intended. The issue, which lasted for two years, has been linked to more than 100 injuries.
Heart Rhythm Society President Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD, detailed a new advocacy group focused on improving EP reimbursements, patient care and access. “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu," he said.
