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.

Uniting Clinical Decision Support, Meaningful Use and Your Mobile Strategy: Feb. 22, 3:45-4:30pm

Discover how to make your application as mobile as the healthcare professionals who use it. We'll cover: mobile devices and meaningful use stages 2 and 3; what CDS data you need now; formatting and delivery for mobile devices; and clinical decision support integration. Learn from the experts who have developed for every mobile platform.

Got Smartphones? Leveraging Physicians' Smartphone Usage in HIT: Feb 21, 9:45-10:45am

United Health Services Hospitals designed and implemented a handheld solution for clinician use. Installing this system on clinician-owned mobile devices has increased physician acceptance of EHR while minimizing computer requirements.

Mobile Technology at the Point-of-Care: Feb. 21, 1:15-2pm

Leveraging expertise in EHR and enterprise mobile technology, Agilex is leading the secure deployment of applications that access and update critical patient health information across various data sources providing physicians information at the point-of-care.

HIMSS: Carestream to expand cloud services

Carestream Health (Booth 2614) is expanding its Carestream Vue for Cloud Services with mobile imaging data access from its Vue Motion zero footprint viewer and higher levels of encryption and security through use of the Intel Xeon processor E7 family. These updates will be demonstrated at the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition, Feb. 20-24, in Las Vegas.

Peake produces cloud archiving platform

Peake Healthcare Innovations, a joint venture between Harris and Johns Hopkins Medicine, has launched PeakeSecure cloud archiving platform, a managed service that seeks to assist healthcare providers with storing and managing medical images and related healthcare information.

AR: Few high-risk women follow through with breast MR

Approximately 14 percent of high-risk women completed recommended breast MRI screening at Invision Sally Jobe Breast Centers within one year after the clinic implemented risk assessments and informed primary care providers that high-risk women should undergo breast MRI, according to a study published in the January issue of Academic Radiology.

CRT: Japanese data show promise for Promus Element in small vessels

WASHINGTON, D.C.The 2.25 mm Promus Element everolimus-eluting stent demonstrated safety and effectiveness in the PLATINUM Japan Small Vessel (SV) study, presented Feb. 6 at the Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) meeting.

Report: Consumerization of IT products strains healthcare IT departments

A survey of 100 provider organizations' executives and health IT managers revealed that the growing presence of iPads and other consumer-grade tablets in clinical settings has created difficulties for CIOs and IT departments, who must integrate those products into their clinical information systems.

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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