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.

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Palliative care: Why is it so difficult for cardiologists to talk about death?

Avoidance and mixed signals have long plagued the palliative care discussion in cardiology, but that could be changing, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 67th annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.

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HIMSS18: How digital technology is addressing today’s most pressing health crises

At a March 7 presentation at HIMSS18 given by Samsung Health, experts explained how technology is addressing health crises including chronic pain and geriatric care through telehealth, mobile devices and implantables.

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Teaming Up to Treat Pulmonary Emboli: Clotbusters Illustrates Potential of Coordinated Response Programs

At one hospital, an aggressive treatment PE treatment program has dramatically reduced mortality.

Scrypt, Inc. expands its healthcare portfolio with a HIPAA secure document management platform

AUSTIN, Texas, February 25, 2016 – Scrypt, Inc. (OTC Pink: SYPT) developers of secure and compliant productivity tools for regulated industries, announced today that it is launching Stak, a document management platform built expressly for the healthcare industry. Stak comes with powerful functionality that can be used in organizations of all sizes from a single physician to enterprise-level hospital groups.

lifeIMAGE Joins Commonwell Health Alliance

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--lifeIMAGE, the nation’s most adopted medical image exchange platform across health care networks, providers and patients, today announced it has joined CommonWell Health Alliance, an industry consortium of health information technology-focused companies that use their diverse, collective experience across the care continuum to break down the barriers that have stood in the way of nationwide data exchange. 

Bisk Education Partners with USF Health to Conduct Health IT Survey, Research to Assist Professionals Considering Career in this Field

TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Bisk Education, Inc., a worldwide leader in online education, today released a groundbreaking survey about health IT professionals—an evolving field that links information technology, communications and healthcare to improve the quality and safety of patient care—addressing new data correlating education and experience with salary and job satisfaction in the field. 

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Same-day discharge for TAVR marks new procedural milestone

One morning last year, a patient checked into a hospital in Canada as the first TAVR case of the day, and they were discharge by that evening. It was an eyebrow-raising feat for a procedure that typically requires several days of hospitalization.

TeraRecon Appoints Jeff Sorenson as President

TeraRecon, (www.terarecon.com), a leader in advanced visualization and enterprise medical image viewing solutions, today announced leadership changes designed to strengthen the company and position it for the next phases of growth and solution development.