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.

Minneapolis imaging center adopts Fonars MRI

The Center for Diagnostic Imaging in Minneapolis has installed Fonars Upright Multi-Position MRI to replace its existing low-field, open-sided scanner.

Avnet introduces new vendor-neutral archive for medical imaging

Avnet Technology Solutions has launched new service offerings to assist in the storage and management of medical images for EHRs, and will allow its partners in the U.S. and Canada to offer vendor neutral archive solutions through its healthcare solutions practice--Avnet HealthPath.

Study: MRI perilous for pacemaker patients

Exposure to an MRI magnetic field can cause unintended cardiac stimulation and considerably alter pulse in patients implanted with pacemakers--conditions that can have potentially devastating consequences--according to research published Dec. 15 in BioMedical Engineering Online.

Study: New study questions favorability of rare form of breast cancer

In patients with mucinous carcinoma, a distinctive tumor that reportedly has a very favorable prognosis, a minimally effective therapy that includes no additional treatment post-surgical removal should be reconsidered as researchers have made a link between this rare breast cancer and multiple tumors undetected by mammography or ultrasound.

Medipattern, N.J. image center link to digitally detect breast cancer

Medipattern will provide B-CAD [computer-aided detection] software that uses breast ultrasound imaging at the Ocean Medical Imaging Center in Toms River, N.J.

MedAssets to employ Hitachis Open MRI

Hitachi Medical Systems America has negotiated a contract with financial performance solutions group, MedAssets Supply Chain Systems, to become the groups supplier of Open MRI products.

RSNA granted nearly $5M for piloting patient-controlled image network

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) a contract totaling $4.7 million to design and launch a two-year pilot project--an Internet-based network for patient-controlled sharing of medical images.

HRJ: ICDs lack longevity, regardless of manufacturer

While implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) have been known to reduce mortality rates in patients, an analysis of four manufactured devices published in the December edition of the Heart Rhythm Journal found that upgrades to these devices are needed in order to further improve patient care.

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.