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.

Study: Dynamic bests static MRI in identifying urethral abnormality

Dynamic MRI allows for the detection of pelvic organ prolapse or displacement within the body that may not be visible on conventional static MRI scans, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

FDA: GE, Bayer, Covidien MR agents carry highest risk

After years of research regarding gadolinium-based contrast agents used during MRI being linked to the skin disease nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF), the FDA has found the greatest risk in GE Healthcares Omniscan, Bayer HealthCare's Magnevist and Covidiens Optimark.

Study: Health IT fails to reduce healthcare costs

The increased computerization of U.S. hospitals hasn't made them cheaper or more efficient, although it may modestly improve the quality of care for heart attacks, Harvard researchers reported in the Nov. 20 edition of the American Journal of Medicine.

Equity funds to buy Esaote for more than $415M

Intesa Sanpaolo and Ares Life Sciences, private equity funds focused on investing in the biomedical and healthcare sectors, have reached an agreement to acquire ultrasound and MRI technology developer Esaote for EUR280 million ($415.7 million, U.S.).

MTCT: MRI, NMR detect early cancer treatment response

BOSTON--Novel targeted cancer therapies could benefit from nuclear MR (NMR) and spectroscopy imaging to obtain an early indication of drug efficacy and guide personalized medicine, according to a presentation Tuesday at the Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics (MTCT) conference.

McKesson unveils HIE blueprint

Healthcare services and IT developer McKesson has revealed a plan to integrate Horizon Connect--a component of its Horizon product suite--with its business platform RelayHealth in order to facilitate health information exchange (HIE).

Evidence-based optimism for health IT

Look at recent health IT financial news and you might feel a moment of go-go '90s optimism. That's understandable. Health IT spending is up, and growth is expected to continue ashospitalsworldwide harness more technology to improve patient care.

NIH funds brain imaging app

Prism Clinical Imaging and the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee are the recipients of a three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development and clinical validation of medical imaging software to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of brain cancer.

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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