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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 Delivery, Digital Transformation, Precision Medicine, Remote Monitoring and Telehealth.

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HL7 publishes requirements for EHR clinical research

Health Level Seven (HL7) has published an American National Standards Institute-approved document that specifies the functional requirements for regulated clinical research in an EHR.

House delivers healthcare reform victory in late-night session

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives managed to squeak out a healthcare reform victory (220-215) late Saturday evening, after ratifying the Stupak-Pitts Amendment that will prohibit abortion funding for both the public option and affordability credits.

Texas center deploys Siemens 3T MRI

Memorial Hermann Imaging Center in Houston has implemented the Magnetom Verio Open Bore 3T MRI from Siemens Healthcare.

MR technique delivers superior pelvic visualization

Time-resolved MR angiography (TR-MRA) is a useful sequence for the assessment of ovarian vein reflux, which may aid the evaluation of pelvic congestion syndrome, according to research published this month in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Task force recommends new brachytherapy guidelines

A task force commissioned by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) has recommended that radiation dose delivered to the prostate and nearby organs in brachytherapy procedures should be carefully analyzed using post-implant CT or MRI and uniformly documented in each patient.

Siemens scores U.K. MRI install

A vacant ambulance bay at St. Margarets Hospital in Essex, England, is the site of a newly developed MRI suite that is housing a Siemens Healthcare Magnetom Essenza MRI system.

ACR: Medicare cuts may end non-hospital imaging

The American College of Radiology (ACR) released a statement yesterday charging that medical imaging cuts contained in the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule may restrict imaging services to large hospitals, produce longer commutes and wait times to receive care, and could cause delays in diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other serious illnesses.

CMS physician fee rule could cut imaging payments up to 38% in 2010

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Friday announced final changes for policy and payment rates during the 2010 calendar year, which, if implemented, could cut by up to 38 percent the amount doctors will receive when they use medical imaging equipment for procedures such as MRI and CT scans. The rule affects more than one million physicians and non-physician practitioners who are paid under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

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These health systems have the biggest digital health portfolios

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.

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Toylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles to connect

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.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

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.