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.

GE debuts wide-bore MRI

GE Healthcare has introduced the Optima MR450w, a wide-bore MRI system.

New MRI/laser probe may help pinpoint, kill brain tumors

Gene Barnett, MD, of the Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center at Cleveland Clinic, is conducting research that uses laser and MRI technology to heat and kill brain tumors.

Franklin & Seidelmann names Larsen as marketing VP

Franklin & Seidelmann, a radiology interpretations provider, has appointed Clayton T. Larsen as senior vice president of marketing for the firm.

Image Gently campaign now includes interventional radiology

The Image Gently campaign has developed online teaching materials and checklists to help interventional radiology providers use the lowest dose necessary to perform interventional procedures on children.

Sebelius releases $25.7M for health center services

Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius has released more than $25.7 million in grants to increase support services at U.S. health centers.

Blumenthal: Preliminary EHR certification unlikely by October

Although the Health IT Policy Committee adopted a number of recommendations at its meeting last week, some of the recommendations regarding EHR certification and adoption deadlines might be difficult, or impossible, to meet.

QC integration optimizes digital imaging environment

The integration of quality control (QC) procedures for image and data integrity in a digital environment not only improves patient care, it reduces both professional and administrative costs to a medical imaging practice.

Sebelius, Blumenthal announce $1.2 billion in EHR grants

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and David Blumenthal, MD, the head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, announced today that about $1.2 billion in grants are being made available to promote the use of EHRs.

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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