Digital Transformation

This evolution of healthcare involves using technology to improve diagnosis, treatments, monitor patients, enhance hospital operations and culture, and bolster consumer-focused care. This includes virtual reality tools, wearable devices, workflow software, health apps and other digital health tools.

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Siemens and SIS partner for perioperative workflow

Siemens Healthcare has partnered with Surgical Information Systems (SIS) to expand the reach of the Siemens health information system portfolio (including Soarian, INVISION and MedSeries4) into the perioperative environment, including the SIS Anesthesia platform.

A familiar refrainstandards needed

Last weeks Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) conference in Washington, D.C., featured conversations about the nuts and bolts of advanced visualization. Integration of systems to share sophisticated images and data remains on the horizon for many facilities, but the technology is getting closer.

Biomedical engineering: All-encompassing degree for a lucrative career

Biomedical engineering, or the application of engineering principals to medicine, is continuing to gain traction in both the hospital setting and the classroom, with top universities now offering degrees in the field and experts predicting that the job market will continue to grow at a fast pace.

AdvaMed recommends federal office of medical innovation

The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) has called for an office of medical innovation in the White House, which would be tasked with overseeing proposed and current government policies to assure that they support medical innovation, as part of a series of policy recommendations released June 6.

Centra hospitals go live with MEGAHIT project

Provider-owned organization MedVirginia and medical services provider Centra have partnered to enable Centras three hospitals to go live with the Social Security Administration (SSA) MEGAHIT project.

Study: Intraoperative noise volume linked to surgical site infections

Intraoperative noise volume was found to be associated with surgical site infections in a study of 35 patients published May 27 in the British Journal of Surgery.

TeraRecon highlights iNtuition

TeraRecon is sharing iNtuitions integration and interconnectivity capabilities at the annual meeting of the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), June 2-5 in Washington, D.C. and emphasizing the adoption of the companys iNtuition Cloud managed software-as-a-service offering, at the 92nd Deutsche Roentgenkongress in Hamburg, Germany June 2-3

Thomson Reuters' top 10 health systems: Who made the cut?

Ten health systems have been tapped as the best by Thomson Reuters for providing paramount care--better outcomes, survival and patient satisfaction--over their peers. The results were published May 31 in Thomson Reuters third annual "10 Top Health Systems" study.

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