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.

Centurion to provide correctional healthcare in New Mexico

Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico has been contracted by the State of New Mexico Corrections Department to provide correctional medical healthcare services and pharmacy services to more than 7,000 offenders throughout the state.   

Primrose Healthcare launches app to help hepatitis C patients with alcohol addiction

Primrose Healthcare has launched an alcohol app designed to help hepatitis C patients overcome alcohol addiction by providing personalized education and resources through goal setting, alerts, coaching and ongoing feedback.

Study: Visual impairment, blindness expected to double in U.S. by 2050

A study published by JAMA Ophthalmology has found that the number of people with visual impairment or blindness in the United States is expected to double to more than 8 million by 2050, according to projections based on the most recent census data and from studies funded by the National Eye Institute.

Medicare beneficiary survey now available to researchers

CMS has released a public use file for the 2013 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), allowing researchers easy access to select data to analyze health disparities and access to care.

Tech panel calls for standards in interoperability

The Center for Medical Interoperability (CMI) held a panel discussion with CMI Executive Director Ed Cantwell, Zane Burke, president of Cerner, and Mike Schatzlein, senior vice president at Ascension Health.

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New toolkit available to aid provider-patient communication when harm is done

Three weeks after healthcare researchers revealed that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S., the federal government’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new online toolkit designed to help providers communicate with patients and loved ones when something goes wrong.

California opens access to healthcare for undocumented adults

Counties across northern California, Central Valley and Sierra Nevada are expanding healthcare for lower-income residents, no matter their immigration status.

NIH awards grant to develop 'TurboTax for eligibility for public health'

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, $1.6 million grant to a firm focusing on developing software to ease determining eligibility for public health programs.

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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