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.

Survey: Providers expect IT to improve patient care; not just business

Healthcare providers realize that new technologies have to be adopted to improve their business, but the medical benefits of technology also are clearly in their sights, according to CompTIAs Healthcare IT Market: Insights and Opportunities survey.

Washington provider selects Qwest for network solutions

Denver, Colo.-based Qwest Communications has been selected by Memorial Practice Management (MPM) in Yakima, Wash., to provide a communication network solution to connect seven MPM-managed healthcare clinics in central Washington state.

Feature: Imaging payments, appropriateness under OIG review

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) will commence new studies regarding Medicare Part B imaging payments and the appropriateness of many emergency department scans, according to the recent OIG Fiscal Year 2010 Work Plan.

BioImagene introduces digital pathology workstation

BioImagene has unveiled Crescendo, its new digital pathology workstation, this week at the 2009 College of American Pathologists conference in Washington, D.C.

New Brunswick to re-examine 30,000 imaging studies

Health officials in New Brunswick are conducting an external quality review of radiology procedures performed by Bhagwan Jain, MD, in that province between 2006 and 2009, after an earlier review of the radiologists work revealed certain irregularities.

Study: MRI breast lesions worth a second look on ultrasound

Second-look sonography has value in the evaluation of abnormalities found on breast MRI, according to a retrospective review in this months issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

Commonwealth Fund: Healthcare disparity widens between states

A report by the New York City-based Commonwealth Fund Commission has found there is a significant difference between the access, quality and cost of healthcare across state lines and that healthcare disparities among states continue to widen.

Blue Cross warns of physician data exposure

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) has begun re-evaluating its security policies after a laptop containing sensitive BCBSA data concerning physicians was stolen in August from an employees car.

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.