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.

CDC: Advanced imaging has 'increased dramatically' in last decade

The use of advanced imaging modalities such as MRI, CT and PET have increased dramatically in physician offices and hospital emergency and outpatient departments over the last decade, according to an annual report on U.S. health issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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.

HIMSS: Agfa to offer clinical imaging solutions

Agfa HealthCare (Booth #1633) will offer the healthcare community systems for clinical consolidation, results distribution and improved communication between care providers at the HIMSS10 conference in Atlanta in early March.

Report: Home care on rise in EU, interoperability needed

Europes patient population is moving toward long-term care and home care from hospitals and other clinical settings, and nursing and residential care services are on the rise, according to analysis from market research firm Frost & Sullivan.

New patient monitoring model draws scrutiny

A new hospital breaking ground usually isnt breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.

DR Systems' cloud computing trial gets underway

Healthcare information systems provider DR Systems has released a partial list of the medical facilities in the U.S., which will be participating in its electronic medical information exchange (eMix) business venture trial. 

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.

Study: fMRI illustrates link between genetics, decision-making processes

By way of functional MRI (fMRI), researchers from the Imaging Institute at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio were able to observe the default-mode network-0a neural network in the brain--and determine that genetics have an effect on this and several other networks.

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.