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.

Medipattern, N.J. image center link to digitally detect breast cancer

Medipattern will provide B-CAD [computer-aided detection] software that uses breast ultrasound imaging at the Ocean Medical Imaging Center in Toms River, N.J.

MedAssets to employ Hitachis Open MRI

Hitachi Medical Systems America has negotiated a contract with financial performance solutions group, MedAssets Supply Chain Systems, to become the groups supplier of Open MRI products.

RSNA granted nearly $5M for piloting patient-controlled image network

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) a contract totaling $4.7 million to design and launch a two-year pilot project--an Internet-based network for patient-controlled sharing of medical images.

HRJ: ICDs lack longevity, regardless of manufacturer

While implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) have been known to reduce mortality rates in patients, an analysis of four manufactured devices published in the December edition of the Heart Rhythm Journal found that upgrades to these devices are needed in order to further improve patient care.

Compressus nets U.S. patent for medical message routing

Compressus has received a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for its patent application, which represents thefoundational medical message routing technologies that allow the Compressus MEDxConnect system to provide a virtualized workflow environment to healthcare providers.

Study: Functional MRI sheds light on post-traumatic stress for pediatric patients

Post-traumatic stress symptoms may present a neurofunctional marker of decreased activity of the hippocampus in youth with a history of interpersonal trauma, said a new study's lead author Victor Carrion, MD, child psychiatrist and associate professor of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University in Calif., and his colleagues.

Study: Functional MRI studies could mark anxiety disorders

Intra-amygdala abnormalities and engagement of a compensatory frontoparietal executive control network, which are cognitive theories of generalized anxiety disorders (GADs) were consistent with the findings of a study published in the December edition of Archives of General Psychiatry, which studied the functional connectivity at a subregional level in the human brain that may mark GADs.

Study: MRI technique can help plan removal of benign brain tumors in children

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and white matter tractography successfully identifies white matter fibers stemming from the precentral gyrus prior to surgery within the posterior limb of the internal capsule in children with thalamic juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas, or benign tumors in the thalamus of the brain, said a study published in the December issue of Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics.

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.”