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.

HomecareCRM and Sta-Home Enter Business Agreement

ATLANTA--HomecareCRM, the industry leader in customer growth solutions for post-acute care, and Sta-Home, Mississippi’s largest home health provider, have announced an agreement to deploy the HomecareCRM solution across its home health and hospice sales teams.

AOD Software Acquires Stratis

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--AOD Software, delivering the industry’s leading integrated software solution to senior care providers, today announced its acquisition of Stratis Business Systems, Inc., a leader in home health and home care cloud-based software, increasing clinical and financial efficiencies across the entire spectrum of care.

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Missouri to let medical students work as assistant physicians

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has signed into a law a bill that makes it legal for medical students who have not yet completed a year of residency to work as “assistant physicians” within the state, delivering primary care services with 10 percent of their work reviewed by a physician.

CVS Caremark Announces New Clinical Affiliations with Four Major Health Care Providers

WOONSOCKET, R.I., July 16, 2014-- CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) announced today it has entered into new clinical affiliations with four major health care providers to enhance access to high-quality, affordable health care services for patients.

Survey: 75% of consumers want digital healthcare services

The belief that consumers do not want to use digital healthcare services is a myth, as more than 75 percent indicated would like to use such services given they are high quality and meet their needs, according to analysts from global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

Recipients of Inaugural Tracy T. Lefteroff Fund Awards Announced

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 16, 2014--The Fogarty Institute for Innovation, a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit that mentors, trains and inspires the next generation of medical innovators, in partnership with the PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc. and CHI-California Healthcare Institute, has announced this year's recipients of the Tracy T. Lefteroff Fund Awards, recognizing promising entrepreneurs, innovators, students and programs in the life sciences field.

Cruise line offers pediatric telemedicine

All aboard for telemedicine! MSC Cruises has become the first cruise line to offer guests 24/7 multilingual pediatric telemedicine service on board.

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Why mHealth has stalled

The smartphone industry may be growing, but is the U.S. healthcare infrastructure ready to embrace the growing desire for non-traditional physician-patient encounters?

Around the web

Boston Scientific has announced another significant M&A deal, scooping up an Israeli medtech company focused on RDN technology. 

Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

The recall comes after approximately 3% of patients treated with the device during the early stages of its U.S. rollout experienced a stroke or transient ischemic attack following surgery. The expected stroke rate is closer to 1%, the FDA explained.