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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.

The AMDIS Connection: Knowing What to Keep & What to Give Away

At this time of the year, reflection on times gone by is a natural pastime. Although the pace of change in our world seems to have accelerated to a frantic pace, the end of the year, with its time-honored holidays, allows some of us the reassurance of continuity of traditions, family and peace.

ACR, SBI call for mammo screening beginning at 40

Less than two months after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force set off a national controversy with its revised recommendations for mammography screening, the American College of Radiology (ACR) and the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) have issued recommendations calling for breast cancer screening to begin at age 40 and even earlier for high-risk patients.

State AGs oppose unfair Nebraska provision in healthcare reform legislation

Thirteen state attorneys general have asked Congress to delete from final healthcare reform legislation a provision contained in the Senates healthcare bill that would exempt Nebraska from having to pay for newly eligible Medicaid recipients.

FDA, Encompass recall Thermoflect blankets for MR environments

The FDA and Encompass Group have issued a voluntary recall of the Thermoflect product line for relabeling regarding its use in the MR environment.

N.Y. imaging practice selects Corepoint

Western New York Radiology Associates, an imaging practice in Buffalo, N.Y., has selected Corepoint Healths Corepoint Integration Engine to orchestrate its internal workflow and external patient data flow.

KLAS: ED docs disappointed by EDIS products

Many enterprise emergency department information systems (EDIS) are being employed by hospitals to replace standalone, best-of-breed solutions, but are resulting in disappointed ED clinicians, according to a recently published KLAS report.

PwC: Healthcare in 2010 will focus on cost control, delivery models

PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) Health Research Institute's Top 10 health industry issues in 2010 puts healthcare cost control at the head of the list as the overarching theme for the year ahead.

HHS launches $60M program to fund health IT research projects

David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on Friday announced plans to make available $60 million to support the development of Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP).

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.