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.

Patient permissions could ease e-exchange of imaging results

Patient-coordinated electronic exchange could remove privacy and security doubts surrounding the sharing of imaging results, according to research published August 11 by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 

Data held hostage in bizarre Illinois breach

An unauthorized user gained access to and encrypted the server of a small Midwestern surgical practice and essentially held the information hostage in exchange for the password needed to regain access to the server.

BG pulls FDA submission for CardioScore, reports poor Q2 earnings

Amid its second quarterly results announcement, BG Medicine said that it is withdrawing the CardioScore diagnostic test from the FDA 510(k) submission process.

CDS & CPOE ease provider stress, encourage guideline adherence

Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) and clinical decision support (CDS) improve order set usability and decrease providers cognitive workload while increasing adherence to established clinical guidelines, according to research published in the September issue of Pediatrics.

Wearable ID system could pave way to passive mHealth interoperability

Researchers at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., have demonstrated the feasibility of a wearable sensor that they designed to passively recognize people. If successful, the prototype they hope to build from their study will curtail mistaken-identity errors in, and malicious hacking of, mobile and wearable medical devices.

Siemens inks dose management deal

Siemens Healthcare has signed an agreement to incorporate Radimetrics' radiation dose management and reporting system into syngo Workflow RIS.

Weekly round-up: More breaches, growing markets

This weeks top stories bring two more hospital data breaches, both at large healthcare facilities on the West Coast.

Positron consolidates radiopharma, radioisotope facilities

Positron has consolidated the operations of its radiopharmaceutical and radioisotope businesses, some of which were located at its Crown Point, Ind., facility to its Lubbock, Texas site.

Around the web

No devices need to be returned at this time. However, the FDA warned, using these heart pumps without reviewing the updated instructions could result in "serious injury or death.” 

The FDA recently cleared the company's cable-free, credit card-sized heart monitor that produces 12-lead ECGs.

If 25% tariffs go into effect, it could have a big impact on the cost of medical imaging and radiotherapy systems, with many manufacturing facilities in Mexico.