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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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Most hospitals fail to meet quality standards, including heart guidelines

U.S. hospitals have failed to adequately protect patient safety and too many hospitals have failed to implement standards known to improve quality and save lives, according to the 2008 Leapfrog hospital survey.

Viztek debuts web-based function for EMR integration

Viztek, a medical imaging solutions provider, has released a web-based interface with EMR systems for its family of PACS offerings.

TeraMedica debuts UnivisionImageport enterprise viewer

TeraMedica Healthcare Technology, a Milwaukee-based healthcare informatics company, has launched its new Univision-Imageport enterprise viewer.

Obama: DoD, VA to be connected through virtual EHRs

President Barack Obama announced plans Thursday to create a joint virtual lifetime electronic record that will improve care and services to transitioning veterans by easing the flow of medical records between the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs administrations.

IBM, Oklahoma university to build home healthcare delivery model

The University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine and IBM have partnered to build an EMR-enabled primary care practice model that will meet President Obama's vision of an information-based, connected healthcare system.

CCHIT sees 33% surge in EHR certification applications from last year

A rush of applications to meet a March 31 deadline for applying for the 2008 cycle of testing brought the number of ambulatory EHR products seeking to become certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) to 64.

Government offers free NHIN connection software

The Federal Health Architecture, an E-Gov initiative led by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), is making free software available as a first step to help public and private health information technology systems communicate to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).

IBM scores $15M infrastructure deal with InSite One

InSite One, a cloud provider for medical image data archiving, storage and disaster-recovery solutions in the United States, today announced it has chosen IBM technologies for its primary data center expansion and storage device upgrades.

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Cardiovascular Business
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.

Cardiovascular Business
Q&A: Why are cardiovascular devices involved in so many recalls? FDA policies may be to blame

Cardiovascular devices are more likely to be in a Class I recall than any other device type. The FDA's approval process appears to be at least partially responsible, though the agency is working to make some serious changes. We spoke to a researcher who has been tracking these data for years to learn more. 

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