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.

Correction: Boston Sci eliminates international headquarters in Natick, Mass.

Boston Scientific is not closing international headquarters in Paris and Tokyo, as we incorrectly reported last week. It is eliminating its Natick, Mass.-based International headquarters. The corrected article can be read here. We apologize for any confusion.

Survey: No clear EMR market leader

Despite the presence of heavy hitters such as IBM, 3M and Dell, no single company owns the EMR market, according to a report from Kalorama Information.

Boston Sci narrows losses in FY09, Q4

Boston Scientific has financial results for the fourth quarter and full year, which ended Dec. 31, 2009, indicating a reduction in net losses for both.

Bos Scientific shuffles leadership team, cuts 1,000+ jobs

Boston Scientific has begun to restructure its leadership team and modify the organization--including significant changes to its international headquarters in Natick, Mass.--and initiated layoffs of 8 to 10 percent of its non-direct labor base.

CDC: Health factors differ significantly between states, counties

A state-based survey that assessed health-risk behaviors, chronic conditions and preventive health in the 54 states and territories, showed that these factors significantly vary on a state-by-state basis and that 2010 health improvement objectives have mostly not been met, according to a report conducted by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

Bos Sci settles long-standing stent patent disputes with J&J for $1.7B

Boston Scientific has settled three patent disputes with Johnson & Johnson (J&J) for $1.73 billion.

Enterprise Storage Solutions: Treating Clinical Data Storage Ailments

CIOs and CMIOs are finding new ways to balance enterprise data storage challenges with providing electronic patient information and images where and when they are needed.

Talk to Me: Speech Recognition Streamlines Clinical Communication

Speech recognition technology is well on its way to becoming one of the most widely adopted technologies in healthcare settings because it can save documentation time and can boost both the availability and accuracy of patient records.

Around the web

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.

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.

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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