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.

Iron Mountain extends platform for cloud storage

Information protection and storage services company Iron Mountain announced this week that it is opening up its Archive Services Platform to application providers.

MedQuist, Clario ink agreement

MedQuist has reached a reseller agreement with Clario Medical Imaging to market and resell Clarios zVision software.

Report: Telemedicine spending to approach $3.6B annually by 2014

The market for telemedicine devices and services will generate nearly $3.6 billion in annual revenue within the next five years, with mobile services companies taking a sizeable chunk of that business, according to a report from market research firm Pike & Fischer.

CVIS: Improving Departments from Within

In the current era of healthcare reform, spawned by the funding made available in the HITECH Act of February's stimulus package, there has been much discussion about producing transparent and quantifiable data on the performance of various departments.

Nuance updates eScription speech platform

Nuance Communications has made available version 9 of its eScription on-demand platform for computer-aided medical transcription.

Initiate launches provider management app

Initiate Systems has launched its Initiate Provider Management solution, which allows healthcare organizations to create a provider registry.

Cardinal Health expands offerings

Cardinal Health has introduced an expanded suite of consulting, analytics and operations services to help hospital pharmacy directors improve cost containment, workflow and patient safety.

MRO offering healthcare document management tools

MRO, a company that provides return on investment and audit tracking applications for healthcare providers, has launched a Document Management Solutions Group.

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.