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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 Delivery, Digital Transformation, Precision Medicine, Remote Monitoring and Telehealth.

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HIMSS names 2010 Davies Awards winners

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has announced the six 2010 HIMSS Davies Awards winners.

HHS awards $14M for patient-centered outcomes research

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Health Howard K. Koh, MD, said the agency will award more than $14.2 million to develop, implement and test strategies to increase adoption and dissemination of interventions based on patient-centered outcomes research among racial and ethnic minority populations.

EHNAC announces MSO accreditation program for Maryland

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a nonprofit standards development organization and accrediting body, has launched its Management Service Organization Accreditation Program (MSOAP).

Practice Fusion, Good Health Media offer free EMR platform

Health ad network Good Health Media and EMR company Practice Fusion have partnered to provide a free EMR system supported by targeted advertising.

Johns Hopkins researchers develop cloud computing software for RNA sequencing

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore have developed new software, known as Myrna, to improve the speed at which scientists can analyze RNA sequencing data using cloud computing, according to an article published online in Genome Biology.

BridgeHead Software, Dell offer joint data management tool

BridgeHead Software and Dell have begun offering hospitals Medical Archive, a joint tool to store medical and administrative data in a centralized repository within an enterprise storage environment.

Report: Patients must control their health info

The primary stakeholder in healthcare, the patient, must retain control over personal health information, according to a white paper from Patient Privacy Rights, an Austin, Texas-based health privacy watchdog group. 

NEC revamps portable projector series

NEC Display Solutions of America has released its new series of portable projectors, including the M260X replacing the NP410, M260W replacing the NP410W and M300X replacing the NP510.

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Positron partners with Upbeat Cardiology Solutions to improve cardiac PET/CT access

Positron, a New York-based nuclear imaging company, will now provide Upbeat Cardiology Solutions with advanced PET/CT systems and services. 

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.