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.

CDS and Meaningful Use: Requirements, Enablers, and What You Should Do Now

Sunday, February 28, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CDS, expressed through CPOE, analytics, information prompts, and more, is essential for achieving many meaningful use objectives. Understand current requirements and how to optimize your capabilities now, and discuss future policies and enablers to improve adoption and impact.

HIMSS Preview: CDSFortifying decision-making

Clinical decision support has reached a critical juncture. Technology improvements enable CDS systems to gather a wider variety of patient data to provide more useful advice that assists clinicians decision making. Converging standards and integration initiatives enable more stand-alone CDS tools to work together in actual systems.

Philips' Emergin launches alert notifier for Apple platform

Emergin, a Philips Healthcare company, has released an interface between the Emergin alert management platform and the Voalte communication server to deliver alert message notifications from Emergin to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

Siemens lands U.K. install

Siemens Healthcare has implemented its Magnetom Avanto 1.5 Tesla MRI at Watford General Hospital in Hertfordshire, England, for general musculoskeletal, neurological, breast and renal scanning.

AJR: MRI a desirable alternative to sonogram for diagnosis of testicular disease

Non-invasive MR Imaging is highly accurate in the preoperative characterization and local staging of testicular neoplasms and is a useful diagnostic tool for the evaluation of testicular disease, according to a study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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.

HIMSS: Clinical Architecture Introduces Symedical Recognize

Health IT company Clinical Architecture (Booth #812) will introduce Symedical Recognize and new healthcare content integration services during HIMSS10 in Atlanta from March 1-4.

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.

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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