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.

N.J. provider deploys Infinitt enterprise PACS

Infinitt North America, a provider of web-based RIS, PACS, cardiology PACS and advanced visualization solutions, has been awarded a multi-year contract to implement an enterprise-wide PACS solution at St. Joseph's Healthcare System, based in Paterson, N.J.

Health Choice Network implements Sage Intergy

Health Choice Network, a Health Resources and Services Administration-sponsored health center controlled network, is implementing Sage Intergy CHC and Sage Intergy EHR for member community health centers in the United States.

Tennessee HIE adds practice management toolkit

Shared Health, a Tennessee-based public/private Health Information Exchange (HIE), has launched two new practice management tools, Clinical Insight and Condition Tracker.

IXICO launches free DICOM tool

IXICO has released Trial Wire, a free, web-based tool for de-identifying, organizing and electronically transferring DICOM medical images during the International Society for Magnetic Resonence in Medicine conference in Honolulu this week.

Digisonics scores new contracts

Pediatric Cardiology Associates of Southwest Louisiana in Lake Charles reported that it has chosen Digisonics' DigiView Image Management and Reporting System to satisfy its clinical reporting needs.

Tenn. health system selects McKesson for PACS

IASIS Healthcare, a 16-hospital system in Franklin, Tenn., plans to help improve patient care and physician satisfaction with the deployment of a new PACS from McKesson, Horizon Medical Imaging PACS.

FTC seeks comment on proposed rule for PHR security breaches

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking public comment on a proposed rule that would require entities to notify consumers when the security of their personal health record (PHR) is breached.

CCHIT develops task force; names 09 EHR pilot participants

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has assembled an advisory task force for its new Long Term Care Spectrum certification development. The commission has also named companies that participated in its 2009 EHR certification pilot tests.

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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