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.

Emory imaging projects benefit from stimulus grants

Emory University in Atlanta has been a major beneficiary of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.

Kaiser: Recession has EDs under severe pressure

With its deleterious impact on employment and health insurance, the recession has put emergency departments (EDs) across the United States under a tremendous amount of pressure, according to a report issued by the Kaiser Family Foundations Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.

Neurology: MRI reveals brain damage that may predict future memory loss

Areas of brain damage, indicated through white matter hyperintensity volume and infarcts seen on brain MRI, which originally thought to be related to stroke, may help doctors predict a person's risk of memory problems in old age, according to research published in today's issue of Neurology.

FDA clears GE wide-bore MRI

GE Healthcare has received FDA clearance for its Optima MR450w, a new 70-cm bore, 1.5T MRI system. The larger-bore platform is commonly touted for patients who are obese or claustrophobic.

Merge adds MRI CAD with $22M Confirma acquisition

Health IT developer Merge Healthcare has entered a definitive agreement to acquire MRI computer-aided detection (CAD) application developer Confirma in an all-stock transaction.

Maryland funds statewide HIE

Marylands Health Services Cost Review Commission has approved up to $10 million in startup funding to build a statewide health information exchange (HIE), with the hope more funding will be available later this year through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Carestream unveils PACS for small practices at AHRA

Carestream Health is launching a PACS for small medical practices at the 2009 meeting of the Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) in Las Vegas this week.

FDA clears Time Medical's MRI

Time Medical has received FDA approval for its Pica 0.35T whole-body open MRI system.

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.