Precision Medicine

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.

McKesson sees slight increases in Q2

McKesson has reported single-digit gains for both net income and revenue in the second quarter of 2010, which ended Sept. 30.

BlackBerry PlayBook features medical image viewer application

Research In Motion launched the new BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR at the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles, featuring Client Outlooks eUnity that allows clinicians to view diagnostic quality images from any web browser while using the internet.

CareFusion teams with Cali provider for tech development

CareFusion has selected Palomar Pomerado Health in San Diego as development partner for its line of Pyxis technologies for medication and supply management.

UC San Diego nets $25M in biomedical informatics grants

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, led by Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, chief of the division of biomedical informatics in the department of medicine, have received two federal grants totaling more than $25 million to develop ways to gather, analyze, use and share vast amounts of biomedical information.

N.Y. state plans large EMR network

The N.Y. Department of Health and the N.Y. eHealth Collaborative have submitted a proposal to spend $129 million in state and federal money on a network that will allow all medical records to be accessed statewide. The plan would create the country's largest network for EMRs, according to the proposal.

Northeast selects Merge for image management

Healthcare IT company Merge Healthcare has been selected by Massachusetts-based integrated delivery system Northeast Hospital Corporation (NHC) for its PACS and enterprise content manager (ECM) technology.

Radiology: 7T MRA outperforms 3T

7T MR angiography (MRA) demonstrated significantly improved image quality across several quantitative parameters compared with 3T MRA, a study published in the October issue of Radiology reported.

NEJM: Warfarin self-testing an option where care is limited

Weekly self-testing to maintain warfarin anticoagulation produced similar results to monthly high-quality clinic testing, suggesting that self-testing could be an option for patients in rural areas or with other transportation challenges, according to the results of the THINRS study published in the Oct. 21 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Around the web

Compensation for heart specialists continues to climb. What does this say about cardiology as a whole? Could private equity's rising influence bring about change? We spoke to MedAxiom CEO Jerry Blackwell, MD, MBA, a veteran cardiologist himself, to learn more.

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. 

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.”