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.
In an animal model, irreversible electroporation was found to be a fast, safe and potent ablative method, causing complete tissue death by means of apoptosis, according to a study published in the May edition of Radiology.
IDC Health Insights predicts the HIE landscape will shift dramatically during the next two years, and enterprise HIEs serving integrated delivery networks and health or hospital systems stand to benefit for several reasons. Topping the list: Enterprise HIEs can more easily establish a sustainable business model, and are not as crippled by organizational issues and difficulties with data governance as their statewide and regional counterparts.
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)-Europe, an organization that seeks to accelerate the adoption of EHRs by improving the exchange of information among healthcare systems, has re-elected Peter Kuenecke as vendor co-chair for an additional two-year term.
Health IT company EDIMS has signed a multi-year agreement to license medical software company Callibra's Discharge 1-2-3 application to automate the emergency department (ED) discharge process, including providing patient instructions and prescriptions.
Bottlenecks in the emergency department (ED) can send physicians scrambling to prevent chaos while striving to provide optimal patient care. Automated patient tracking, thin-client dashboards, pre-hospital cardiac triage systems and emergency department information systems are helping ED physicians do more of the former while preventing the latter.
Patients must be clearly identified in all stages of care. The identity stakes have never been higher: The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies has reported that medication errors including administering the wrong medicine to the wrong patient harm at least 1.5 million people each year and the extra medical costs of treating drug-related injuries occurring in hospitals alone amount to $3.5 billion a year. This figure doesn't include lost wages, productivity or additional healthcare costs.
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.”
