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.

N.Y. imaging practice selects Corepoint

Western New York Radiology Associates, an imaging practice in Buffalo, N.Y., has selected Corepoint Healths Corepoint Integration Engine to orchestrate its internal workflow and external patient data flow.

KLAS: ED docs disappointed by EDIS products

Many enterprise emergency department information systems (EDIS) are being employed by hospitals to replace standalone, best-of-breed solutions, but are resulting in disappointed ED clinicians, according to a recently published KLAS report.

PwC: Healthcare in 2010 will focus on cost control, delivery models

PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) Health Research Institute's Top 10 health industry issues in 2010 puts healthcare cost control at the head of the list as the overarching theme for the year ahead.

HHS launches $60M program to fund health IT research projects

David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on Friday announced plans to make available $60 million to support the development of Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP).

Minneapolis imaging center adopts Fonars MRI

The Center for Diagnostic Imaging in Minneapolis has installed Fonars Upright Multi-Position MRI to replace its existing low-field, open-sided scanner.

Avnet introduces new vendor-neutral archive for medical imaging

Avnet Technology Solutions has launched new service offerings to assist in the storage and management of medical images for EHRs, and will allow its partners in the U.S. and Canada to offer vendor neutral archive solutions through its healthcare solutions practice--Avnet HealthPath.

Study: MRI perilous for pacemaker patients

Exposure to an MRI magnetic field can cause unintended cardiac stimulation and considerably alter pulse in patients implanted with pacemakers--conditions that can have potentially devastating consequences--according to research published Dec. 15 in BioMedical Engineering Online.

Study: New study questions favorability of rare form of breast cancer

In patients with mucinous carcinoma, a distinctive tumor that reportedly has a very favorable prognosis, a minimally effective therapy that includes no additional treatment post-surgical removal should be reconsidered as researchers have made a link between this rare breast cancer and multiple tumors undetected by mammography or ultrasound.

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.”