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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Agfa bumps price of medical film

Agfa HealthCare has increased prices on medical film by as much as 70 percent.

Halfpenny expands reporting application

Halfpenny Technologies has released the latest version of its ITF-GoDoc mobile results reporting application.

Omnicell updates medication and supply platform

Omnicell has unveiled its fourth-generation Omnicell G4 platform that includes 11 products for medication and supply automation management.

Survey: ER visits on the rise despite healthcare system changes

Eighty percent of emergency physicians said that emergency visits are increasing despite healthcare reform and changes in reimbursement, and almost 97 percent of these visits were referred by primary care physicians, according to a survey released April 28 by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). These results defy the commonly held assumption that patients are choosing to go to the emergency department for non-emergency care rather than primary care, ACEP stated.

ImageWorks offers mobile CT scanner

ImageWorks has released NewTom VGi Flex Cone Beam CT scanner as a mobile offering.

Agfa delivers PACS to Finland

The hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa will implement Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX 6.5 PACS at its HUS-Rntgen medical imaging centers.

Digital pathology fuels UCLA sub-specialty pathology program

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (UCLA) in Los Angeles, Calif., and Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University, are using Aperios Digital Pathology System to support sub-specialty pathology consultations.

Cambridge Heart redesigns MTWA software

Cambridge Heart has released its redesigned Microvolt T-Wave Alternans (MTWA) software for its HearTwave II and CH2000 platforms.

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These health systems have the biggest digital health portfolios

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

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Toylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles to connect

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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