BOSTON--Most stakeholders agree that the current U.S. model of healthcare is unsustainable, said keynote speaker Joseph Smith, MD, PhD, chief medical and science officer at West Wireless Health Institute in La Jolla, Calif., during his remarks at the World Congress Second Annual Leadership Summit on mHealth July 29.

The patient-centered medical home model can potentially address many current safety concerns in primary care, wrote Mark Graber, MD, of Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York, and Hardeep Singh, MD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, in a commentary published in the July 28 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Roche Diagnostics has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. FDA for the CoaguChek XS Pro system, a point-of-care anticoagulation monitor with a built-in barcode reader that can capture operator and patient identification information.

Intuit has transformed its healthcare business by combining newly acquired Medfusion with its Quicken Health Group to create a new business unit called Intuit Health. Based in Cary, N.C., the group provides online connected services to healthcare settings.

AirStrip Technologies has received FDA clearance to market the AirStrip remote patient monitoring (RPM) tool, including AirStrip RPM Critical Care and AirStrip RPM Cardiology.

This months cover story highlights efforts at several facilities to integrate evidence-based medicine in clinical decision support systems. The value of doing so is becoming increasingly clearimplementation issues, costs and time notwithstanding. Decision support is one of the cornerstones of the recently announced final rule for meaningful use and healthcare in America is now solidly on a path toward a time when data is just as important (and only as good) as the infrastructures that gather, filter and report them.

The number of operational CT and MRI scanners has grown considerably during the past five years, but the numbers of the imaging studies conducted vary significantly across the Canadian provinces, according to a report released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) last week.

Independent service organizations (ISO) will increase their U.S. market share over the next few years, while original equipment manufacturers (OEM), which currently hold a dominant share in the market, may witness a drop-off due to tight budgets for radiology departments, according to a report from Millennium Research Group.