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.

Brit introduces critical results tool at AHRA

Brit Systems unveiled UrgentWorks, a Web-based application that supports flagging of urgent findings, test results and emergency room discordance by reporting clinicians, and the communication and on-going tracking of results to the ordering physician, at the 2009 Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) meeting this week in Las Vegas.

Practice Fusion, Force.com align for PHR launch

Practice Fusion, a provider of Web-based physician practice applications, has received an investment from salesforce.com, an enterprise cloud computing company.

QuadraMed posts Q2 loss

Health IT solutions developer QuadraMed has shown a downturn in profitability and revenue for the firm's fiscal 2009 second quarter.

Eclipsys ends Q2 in the red, looks to stimulus for help

Health IT system developer Eclipsys has reported declining revenues and a sharp downturn in profitability for the Atlanta-based firm's 2009 fiscal second quarter, which ended June 30.

New Novovision module boosts pathology workflow

Novovision has added a flow-cytometry module to its NovoPath anatomic-pathology lab-workflow management system that will, according to the Princeton, N.J.-based company, save as much as 30 minutes on the typical flow cytometry reporting process.

U.S. should look to Europe for e-health guidance

A recently-published report on EHR and health information exchange initiatives suggests that the United States should look at similar efforts in Europe as a guide for its development of large-scale e-health systems.

PACSGear updates MediaWriter

PACSGear, a provider of document and multimedia connectivity solutions for hospitals and healthcare facilities, has released enhancements to its DICOM CD/DVD burning solution, MediaWriter.

CoActiv unveils Auto-Fetch archive

CoActiv Medical is debuting a new archiving solution that provides for the automated recall of relevant prior exams as new images are acquired.

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.