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 DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

Enterprise Storage Solutions: Treating Clinical Data Storage Ailments

CIOs and CMIOs are finding new ways to balance enterprise data storage challenges with providing electronic patient information and images where and when they are needed.

Talk to Me: Speech Recognition Streamlines Clinical Communication

Speech recognition technology is well on its way to becoming one of the most widely adopted technologies in healthcare settings because it can save documentation time and can boost both the availability and accuracy of patient records.

Wireless Technologies Answer the Call for Better Care

Cordless gadgets and smartphones have undoubtedly changed the way we live. Now, more physicians and facilities are welcoming wireless technology as another toolset for delivering better patient care. Theyre tapping into time savings, low costs and easy access that wireless devices can offer. And with oncoming EHR adoption requirements, wireless technologies will play a greater role in clinical care as more patients remotely access their health data.

From the Editor: What You Need to Know—Now

Providers and facilities will be sorting out the HHS/ONCs proposed rules for meaningful use and the Interim Final Rule for some time to come. Reading and digesting the 700-plus pages in these two documents is not for the faint of heart, and the drafts have spawned myriad questions since their release in late December.

The AMDIS Connection: What It Means to Be a Meaningful User

In early 1992, the first edition of the book, The Physician-Computer Connection: A Practical Guide to Physician Involvement in Hospital Information Systems was published, and a few months later, the first Physician-Computer Connection Symposium attracted a few dozen IT-focused physicians to a conference center in Coeur dAlene, Idaho.

JACR: NIH to measure, track radiation dose with medical imaging

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center are incorporating radiation dose exposure reports into the EMR, an effort that they hope will lead to an accurate assessment of whether any cancer risk is associated with low-dose radiation exposure from medical imaging tests, based on an article in Februarys Journal of the American College of Radiology.

California Medicare recipients expected to grow by 131% in 20 years

The percentage of Medicare recipients in California will increase with the states elderly population, and is expected to more than double between 2000 and 2030, according to a report from California Healthcare Foundation.

GE nets NIH grant to develop upgraded MR systems

GE Global Research, a subsidiary of GE has been awarded a four-year, $3.27 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to aid the development of a new cryogen-free magnet technology.

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.”