AirStrip Technologies has received CE Mark certification for three mobile patient monitoring applications, allowing the San Antonio-based health IT vendor to sell and market those products in Europe and in other countries that recognize the conformity symbol.

Given the considerable, and largely unmitigated, burden of heart failure (HF), the potential for home monitoring to improve the management of patients with HF is substantial, according to authors of a state-of-the-art paper in the Jan. 10  edition of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Thomson Reuters has shelved plans to sell its healthcare division due to economic conditions that will prevent the company from receiving what the company believes is a fair value for its profitable business.

Philips Healthcare is bringing its HeartNavigator interventional imaging tool to the U.S.

Last October, a group of organizations convened a summit on problems caused by medical device alarms. In December 2011, one of the groupsthe Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI)published a report based on the proceedings.

University of California (UC) Davis Health System in Sacramento, Calif., has signed a memorandum of understanding with the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, to partner to improve the healthcare of its residents through the exchange of ideas, data and research on telehealth, scientific and technical development and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Opinions about health care reform are plentiful, but Thomas H. Lee, MD, would rather hear solutions. When last year’s Affordable Care Act offered a new model called accountable care organizations (ACOs), Lee assessed the entity’s viability in his role as network president of Partners HealthCare System, based in Boston, Massachusetts.

At the Health IT Summit of the Institute for Health Technology Transformation, held in August in Seattle, Washington, speakers from health care facilities and professional groups around the country gathered to compare notes on the summit’s theme, “Unleashing the Power of mHealth and Telemedicine.” Among them was Joseph Tracy, vice president of