North Carolina has applied for a federal program to test how drones could be used for various purposes. In this case, that purpose would be delivering supplies like blood to hospitals and clinic around the state.

Researchers have developed a list of recommended changes to international guidelines for the development of clinical trials to gain insights on the impact of treatment on participants and their quality of life. Finding were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The Walt Disney Company will contract directly with two of the largest health systems in Central Florida—Orlando Health and Florida Hospital—to offer narrow network plans to its more than 70,000 employees in the region.

Implementation of electronic consultations (e-consults) could improve providing specialty care, but their worth changes depending on clinician’s perceptions of the potential benefits of the technology. Findings were published in the February issue of Health Affairs.

In 2011, as outlined in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicare began offering wellness visits at no cost to fee-for-service beneficiaries. The goal of the annual checkup was to introduce preventative care and address specific risks such as depression and risk of falling.

lifeIMAGE announced today the release of Clinical Connector, powered by lifeIMAGE, a high-performance, scalable, and secure health care application. It connects patients to their care delivery ecosystem while simultaneously simplifying administrative burdens for caregivers. Clinical Connector was built from the ground up using U.S. and international standards to enable a growing and broad set of interoperability needs across clinical and non-clinical applications, including medical imaging platforms that can now share data seamlessly between clinicians and patients. In the interest of patient continuity, lifeIMAGE is making the Clinical Connector available to all clearinghouse users of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Image Share pilot program, which is coming to a successful completion on March 31, 2018.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and Åbo Akademi University in Finland have developed an edible QR code that could advance the development of personalized medicine. Findings were published in International Journal of Pharmaceutics.

Telemedicine has often been touted as a way to provide easier access to care in rural parts of the U.S., but a study from the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Center for Outcomes Research and Education found it may be the patients themselves who limit the positive impact of those services.