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.

Google Health stumbles over insurance claims data

Insurance data used by online personal health records such as Google's and Microsoft's are prone to inaccuracies, due to the diagnostic coding language or due to mislabeling.

CDW offers free server virtualization assessments

CDW, a provider of technology products and services to business, government and education, today announced an assessment services offering for qualifying medium and large organizations to consider server virtualization at no cost and with minimal effort required from the participant.

Hospitals struggle to comply with federal identity theft rules

Approximately 80 percent of U.S. hospitals are still not in compliance with federal Red Flags Rules that require businesses and organizations to create identity theft prevention programs, according to a survey of healthcare executives released by Identity Force.

EMC to slash expenses after weak Q1

EMC, a provider of information infrastructure solutions, saw revenues and net income slip in the first quarter of 2009, and has announced plans to take cost reduction actions to reduce its information infrastructure costs by almost $450 million.

Obama names first-ever CTO to oversee health IT

President Barack Obama has named Virginia's Technology Secretary Aneesh P. Chopra to be the nation's first chief technology officer (CTO).

Penny Imaging releases microfiche digitizer

Penny Imaging Exchange (PIE) has acquired new technology from Germany to process the conversion of microfiche records to digital form--the DRS Digitizer.

HHS guidance builds on HIPAA privacy, security rules

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Friday published a guidance targeting technologies and methodologies to secure health information by rendering health data unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals, as required by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Nearly 40% of R.I. physicians use electronic systems

The Rhode Island Department of Health has released two reports that show how many individual providers use health IT on a regular basis. Rhode Island is the first state in the country to measure this, and nearly 40 percent of its physicians report using electronic clinical information systems to help care for their patients.

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.