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.

MaxMD adds security, storage to email service

MaxMD, a provider of web services to healthcare organizations, has upgraded its basic email service with automatic HIPAA-compliant audit controls and increased secure storage to 3GB for email archiving.

Welch Allyn unveils new vital signs system

Welch Allyn has lanched Connex Electronic Vitals Documentation System to capture and transmit patient data to EMRs to provide clinicians in non-critical settings with access to vital signs.

U of Kentucky breach could affect 2,027 patients

The University of Kentucky in Lexington is notifying 2,027 people of a breach of protected health information.

Charting a Course for Interoperability: Connecting Data, Connecting Patients

With the feds brandishing more than $20 billion dollars to encourage health IT adoption and usher in a new era of streamlined healthcare, interest in integration stands at an all-time high. The ability to integrate, share and route data among disparate systems is essential.

Selberg named IHI's exec VP, COO

Jeffrey D. Selberg will join the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) as executive vice president and chief operating officer, effective Sept. 1.

Report: Best practices using health IT could create significant ROI

A healthcare provider that creates a best practices IT platform to house and share medical records, manage hospital resources more transparently and define precise guidelines for medically authorized tests and procedures can generate significant operating efficiencies, according to analysis published in McKinsey Quarterly.

IBM, Beijing Goodwill develop cardio mgmt system for China

IBM and Beijing Goodwill Information and Technology, a provider of electronic cardiogram systems in China, have developed the first all-in-one electronic cardiogram management system in China.

ePlus renews VHA agreement

ePlus Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of ePlus, has renewed its health IT services agreement with VHA, a network of U.S. nonprofit hospitals. The agreement, effective July 1, will be valid for three years.

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

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.

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.