Patient Care

This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care Delivery, Digital Transformation, Precision Medicine, Remote Monitoring and Telehealth.

RSS icon

Quality Measures and Clinical Decision Support in EHRs

Monday, March 1, 1:15 PM - 1:30 PMCosponsor: HIMSS EHR Association

Practical Pearls for Improving Outcomes with CDS: A Roundtable Discussion

Monday, March 1, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM This interactive conversation among participants is designed to elicit specific, major challenges and successes experienced in the effort to improve outcomes with CDS, and thread together themes and pearls. The goal is for each attendee to leave the session with specific, actionable lessons from the interchange that will be valuable in their CDS efforts.

CDS and Meaningful Use: Requirements, Enablers, and What You Should Do Now

Sunday, February 28, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CDS, expressed through CPOE, analytics, information prompts, and more, is essential for achieving many meaningful use objectives. Understand current requirements and how to optimize your capabilities now, and discuss future policies and enablers to improve adoption and impact.

HIMSS Preview: CDSFortifying decision-making

Clinical decision support has reached a critical juncture. Technology improvements enable CDS systems to gather a wider variety of patient data to provide more useful advice that assists clinicians decision making. Converging standards and integration initiatives enable more stand-alone CDS tools to work together in actual systems.

Philips' Emergin launches alert notifier for Apple platform

Emergin, a Philips Healthcare company, has released an interface between the Emergin alert management platform and the Voalte communication server to deliver alert message notifications from Emergin to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

Siemens lands U.K. install

Siemens Healthcare has implemented its Magnetom Avanto 1.5 Tesla MRI at Watford General Hospital in Hertfordshire, England, for general musculoskeletal, neurological, breast and renal scanning.

AJR: MRI a desirable alternative to sonogram for diagnosis of testicular disease

Non-invasive MR Imaging is highly accurate in the preoperative characterization and local staging of testicular neoplasms and is a useful diagnostic tool for the evaluation of testicular disease, according to a study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Correction: Boston Sci eliminates international headquarters in Natick, Mass.

Boston Scientific is not closing international headquarters in Paris and Tokyo, as we incorrectly reported last week. It is eliminating its Natick, Mass.-based International headquarters. The corrected article can be read here. We apologize for any confusion.

Displaying 8961 - 8968 of 9448

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."

Design by Adaptive Theme
Trimed Popup
Trimed Popup