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.

Washington pilots PHR bank with Microsoft, Google

The Washington State Health Care Authority has launched three consumer-managed Health Record Bank pilot projects in three regions of the state, in conjunction with Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health personal health record (PHR) systems.

Lumedx combines CVIS, PACS with Mennen cath lab products

Lumedx and Mennen Medical have signed a strategic partnership agreement to provide integrated cath lab data that streams hemodynamic cardiovascular patient data to their customers.

eHealth Global delivers image exchange for Rochester RHIO

The Rochester Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) hasimplemented eHealth Global Technologies' eHealthConnect Image Exchange service to automate access to patient images for participating healthcare institutions.

VirtualPACS allows remote image data access

A framework and toolkit for secure, efficient and standards-based access to remote imaging data has the potential to enhance multi-institutional collaborations in biomedical imaging studies, according to the developers of an open-source application, VirtualPACS.

Viztek inks California PACS deal

Precision Orthopedics in Salinas, Calif., has selected Viztek's Opal-Ortho PACS for digital image management.

GE helps Canadian facility go digital

GE Healthcare has implemented its Digital Imaging Repository to connect hospitals and medical centers throughout Southwestern Ontario Canada.

German hospital interfaces cath lab with Siemens PACS

The Peine Clinic in Lower Saxony in Germany has interfaced its angiography systems with an image management and reporting system from Siemens Healthcare.

DR Systems scores four new contracts

DR Systems has secured four new RIS/PACS contracts, including two data migrations from PACS, totaling almost $1.57 million.

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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