AT&T has signed an agreement with telehealth services developer Valued Relationships (VRI) for a remote patient monitoring service to assist with the management of chronic diseases.

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ruled May 1 that it would cover transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) under its Coverage with Evidence Development, but the agency included a series of conditions that must be met to receive reimbursement.

A hundred years ago, the founding principle of Children’s Medical Center Dallas (CMCD), Texas, was the radical notion that children required specialized health care. Today, in a metropolitan area that is expected to experience a pediatric patient growth rate of more than double the national average, coordinating the various mechanisms that deliver

While there is evidence for short-term effectiveness of electronic reminders, especially short message service (SMS) reminders, long-term effects remain unclear, according to an article published April 25 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

A model incorporating dynamic contrast material-enhanced and diffusion-weighted MR features could help identify women with high-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), which may provide information to facilitate lesion-specific targeted therapies, according to a study published in the May issue of Radiology.

Merge Healthcare has released Merge Honeycomb Archive, an image archiving application available within its cloud-based platform.

ECRI Institute is banding with the Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals to help hospitals make better decisions around selecting medical equipment.

Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa will collaborate with Iowa Health System to create that states first commercial health plan accountable care organization (ACO).