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.

Clinical Decision Support: Defining the Right Strategy, Making the Right Decisions

Although the entire healthcare IT universe is waiting on a final definition of meaningful use of electronic health records, the July draft circulated for public consumption gives plenty of clues as to what the rules ultimately will look like for the Medicare and Medicaid health IT subsidy program.

Wireless from End-to-End: Why Converged Networks May Be the Answer

Clinicians are in data overload and the potential exists for this information excess to stall decision-making, thereby negatively impacting patient care. The solution is to provide the right information at the right time to the right caregiver. Advanced wireless technologies are at the forefront of helping physicians and allied staff better handle the enormous amount of continually flowing patient data, as well as to communicate throughout the enterprise with patients and staff.

Hospitals Experiment with Disease Management Tools

Hospitals and health systems are beginning to more carefully craft care plans for patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes, depression, heart disease, lung disease and cancer that seek to engage the patient in his or her own care as well as readying themselves for pending changes in reimbursement that looks to tie the achievement of care goals to payment.

Go Carts: Choosing Mobile Workstations Clinicians Dig

Theyre here, theyre there, theyre everywhere. Mobile workstations, or computers on wheels (COWs), provide access to data all over the hospital, including the ED, ICU and OR, and can be used to move, store and place items, and chart patient information more accurately.

The AMDIS Connection | Is it Meaningful Yet?

Twelve-year-old James sits in his bedroom in Ann Arbor, Mich., on a cool spring day in 1924. He has been feeling a little under the weather over the last two days and his mother is worried he might be coming down with a cold. However, rather than having to bring him to the doctors office, today the familys new Radio Doctor will see the boy in his own bed, in his own home under the watchful eye of his loving mother, teasing brother and at the direction of his caring Dr. McMorris at the local University.

Texas hospital deploys Philips MRI system

Cuero Community Hospital in Cuero, Texas, is now utilizing Philips Healthcare's Panorama high-field open-scanner MRI system.

Boston Sci pays $296M to settle with DoJ over Guidant acquisition

Boston Scientific has reached an agreement in principle with the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) related to product advisories issued by its Guidant subsidiary in 2005. The company noted that the alleged conduct and product sales occurred prior to Boston Scientific's 2006 acquisition of Guidant.

HL7 publishes requirements for EHR clinical research

Health Level Seven (HL7) has published an American National Standards Institute-approved document that specifies the functional requirements for regulated clinical research in an EHR.

Around the web

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.”

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."

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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