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.

ECS review on eHealth in cardiovascular care

Mobile technology is putting health into the hands of patients. A recent review of published articles, conducted by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), summarizes the impact of mobile devices on cardiovascular care.

App gives parents extra insights into NICU care

Being a new parent should be a joyous time, but many parents experience increased stress when a baby arrives earlier than expected. Nicolette, producers of technology for pediatric care, has developed a HIPAA-compliant application that gives parents full visualization on children while in the neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU).

This week in the app store: Birth control

Innovators are pushing to make family planning easier for all women. A recent study on the birth control application Dot shows how using app-only birth control can advance reproductive technology. 

Apple Watch identifies seizure triggers

Patients with epilepsy are hindered by the unpredictability of seizures. But patients may be able to identify the triggers leading up to a seizure with an Apple Watch. A recent study, presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 69th Annual Meeting, showed the wearable is capable of tracking seizures in epilepsy patients.

Siemens Healthineers establishes global Digital Ecosystem to drive digitalization of healthcare

Siemens Healthineers establishes digital platform for healthcare providers as well as for providers of solutions and services

HIMSS 2017: Rebooting digital health with gamification, virtual reality

Games and interactive experiences in the healthcare field are specialties of Denise Silber, a digital health and social media consulting expert, who discussed these technologies at HIMSS 2017.

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HIMSS 2017: Digital voice assistants may pair patients, physicians in living rooms

In an exclusive interview with Clinical Innovation & Technology at HIMSS 2017 in Orlando, Nathan Treloar, president and COO of Orbita, a firm focused on connected home healthcare solutions, explains how digital voice assistants have advanced and what’s to come in the future.

Answer Health on Demand, Great Lakes Health Connect pattern to expand HIE for telemedicine

Answer Health on Demand and Great Lakes Health Connect have partnered together to develop a health information exchange platform for the sharing of health information and medical records while treating patient with telemedicine.

Around the web

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.”

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."

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