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.

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Operationalizing Effective Alerts

Decision support offers the opportunity to provide smarter intelligence for our clinicians at the point of order entry. The Choosing Wisely initiative is guiding our efforts to more effectively order appropriate medications and studies.

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Retail Outlets Are Changing the Care Landscape

Walgreens, CVS and more national chains traditionally considered drugstores are expanding their services into clinical care. 

Telehealth partnership aims to prevent blindness in developing world

The UC Davis Health System and global non-governmental organization Orbis International have penned a cooperation agreement to expand use of telemedicine technology to help treat and prevent blindness in the developing world.

Penn Medicine picks three for second round of innovation grants

The Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation will fund three new initiatives in the second round of its Innovation Grant Program, a program that encourages Penn employees and students to submit their ideas for advancing health and healthcare delivery.

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Email system sharing results of tests pending at discharge improves care

An automated system that notifies responsible physicians of the results of tests pending at discharge through a secure, network email improved their awareness of a patient’s status and boosted provider satisfaction, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Duke University School of Nursing Study Shows Major Tertiary Hospital Saves More Than 72 Minutes Per Nurse While Improving Clinical Outcomes Using eGlycemic Management System

GREENVILLE, S.C.--Glytec, a clinical information technology company solely dedicated to the mission of improving insulin management and glycemic control, is pleased to share the results of a late-breaking poster that was presented at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) 23rd Annual Scientific and Clinical Congress.

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ATA gearing up to launch accreditation program

The American Telemedicine Association is looking to launch an accreditation program this fall for primary care and urgent care.

Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH, CEO of American Well® Receives American Telemedicine Association Industry Council Award

May 20, 2014 -- Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH, CEO of American Well Systems, today received the Ninth Annual American Telemedicine Association Industry Council Award for Leadership in the Advancement of Telemedicine at the 19th Annual ATA Meeting & Exposition, held in Baltimore, MD.

Around the web

CMS finalized a significant policy change when it increased the Medicare payments hospitals receive for performing CCTA exams. What, exactly, does the update mean for cardiologists, billing specialists and other hospital employees?

Stryker, a global medtech company based out of Michigan, has kicked off 2025 with a bit of excitement. The company says Inari’s peripheral vascular portfolio is highly complementary to its own neurovascular portfolio.

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.