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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.

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Study: Health IT fails to reduce healthcare costs

The increased computerization of U.S. hospitals hasn't made them cheaper or more efficient, although it may modestly improve the quality of care for heart attacks, Harvard researchers reported in the Nov. 20 edition of the American Journal of Medicine.

Equity funds to buy Esaote for more than $415M

Intesa Sanpaolo and Ares Life Sciences, private equity funds focused on investing in the biomedical and healthcare sectors, have reached an agreement to acquire ultrasound and MRI technology developer Esaote for EUR280 million ($415.7 million, U.S.).

MTCT: MRI, NMR detect early cancer treatment response

BOSTON--Novel targeted cancer therapies could benefit from nuclear MR (NMR) and spectroscopy imaging to obtain an early indication of drug efficacy and guide personalized medicine, according to a presentation Tuesday at the Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics (MTCT) conference.

McKesson unveils HIE blueprint

Healthcare services and IT developer McKesson has revealed a plan to integrate Horizon Connect--a component of its Horizon product suite--with its business platform RelayHealth in order to facilitate health information exchange (HIE).

Evidence-based optimism for health IT

Look at recent health IT financial news and you might feel a moment of go-go '90s optimism. That's understandable. Health IT spending is up, and growth is expected to continue ashospitalsworldwide harness more technology to improve patient care.

NIH funds brain imaging app

Prism Clinical Imaging and the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee are the recipients of a three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development and clinical validation of medical imaging software to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of brain cancer.

Illinois MRI center installs eRAD PACS

Southwest Hospitals MRI Center in Oak Lawn, Ill. has installed eRADs latest PACS technology.

The Light at the End of the Tunnel

I first grew interested in the possibilities and potential of integrated healthcare information systems when I heard a proposal for a Community Health Information Network (CHIN) in the late 1990s. Weve come a long way since those early efforts at interoperable health ITthere are currently approximately 190 regional health information organization (RHIO)/health information exchange (HIE) initiatives in various forms of development in the United States.

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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.”

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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."

AI in Healthcare
4 points crucial to the nimble regulation of GenAI

With generative AI coming into its own, AI regulators must avoid relying too much on principles of risk management—and not enough on those of uncertainty management.

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