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.

eRad scores Michigan PACS deal

Physician Healthcare Network in Fort Gratiot, Mich., is now operational with eRAD PACS.

Financier for HSS-Emageon deal charged with fraud

The disintegration of the merger between Emageon and Health Systems Solutions (HSS) last week could be tied to investment fraud charges brought against a Texas-based international financing company that was expected to back HHS in the deal.

VA transcription vendor suspended for patient data rule violation

During an internal inspection, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) discovered that a contractor providing medical transcription services was not following its medical information privacy rules.

NeoTool changes name, product branding

Corepoint Health is the new brand name for NeoTool, under which the company said it will accelerate the expansion of its product and service offerings.

Digisonics scores new contracts

Digisonics reported that it has secured new contracts with hospitals in Massachusetts and Texas.

Emageon terminates merger with HSS, receives escrow funds

Healthcare IT developer Emageon has terminated its amended merger agreement with the New York City-based Health Systems Solutions (HSS), due to the latter's failure to receive all necessary financing on or before a designated closing date of Feb. 11.

MGH ranks among highest in Massachusetts for PCI death rates

The death rate associated with PCI in heart attack patients at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston was more than twice the state average, according to an analysis released by the Harvard Medical School Department of Health Care Policy. However, the hospital fared much better in its CABG rates, according to a separate analysis by same organization

Gene expression changes predict future response for cervical cancer patients

BOSTON–Changes in gene expression during chemoradiation can predict thelikelihood of response to therapy for women with locally advancedcervical cancer, according to research presented this week at the 50thannual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology andOncology (ASTRO).

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.