Kiosk for Patient Self Check-In Launched by drchrono

Kiosk for Patient Self Check-In Launched by drchrono

Mobile EHR provider drchrono has unveiled a new Kiosk that equips provider offices for patient self check-in and new Patient Education functionality on iPad enabling providers to share their materials with patients. With... read more

Blood Products Can Safely be Transported by Drones

Blood Products Can Safely be Transported by Drones

Blood products don't seem to suffer damage when transported by drones, researchers report. Large bags of blood products, such as those transfused into patients everyday, can maintain temperature and cellular integrity... read more

VR Technology for Surgical Procedures Planning

VR Technology for Surgical Procedures Planning

Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland developed a technology that uses CT data to generate 3-D images that can be viewed in a virtual environment to help surgeons as they plan surgical procedures. The technology,... read more

CMS Quality Payment Program Website Updated to Enable Data-sharing

CMS Quality Payment Program Website Updated to Enable Data-sharing

CMS recently added a new tool to its Quality Payment Program website that will help vendors create important software for physician practices. The tool itself is an application program interface (API) that was created to... read more

Researchers develop novel wound-healing technology

A WSU research team has successfully used a mild electric current to take on and beat drug-resistant bacterial infections, a technology that may eventually be used to treat chronic wound infections.... read more

Researchers developing biomaterial with potential to treat vascular bleeding

Researchers developing biomaterial with potential to treat vascular bleeding

Researchers at Mayo Clinic, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a biomaterial that has potential to protect patients at high risk for bleeding in surgery.... read more

Mount Sinai Researchers Use Computer Algorithms to Diagnose HCM

Mount Sinai Researchers Use Computer Algorithms to Diagnose HCM

Computer algorithms can automatically interpret echocardiographic images and distinguish between pathological hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and physiological changes in athletes' hearts.... read more

Wearable, Skin-Mounted Stethoscope Monitors Heartbeat

Wearable, Skin-Mounted Stethoscope Monitors Heartbeat

A new type of acoustic sensor that resembles a small Band-Aid on the skin can monitor heartbeat and other health measures.... read more

Data from clinical registries can ID novel drug interactions

Data from clinical registries can ID novel drug interactions

Data mining can be used to discover unknown drug-drug interactions in cardiovascular medicine, according to a study published online Nov. 8 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.... read more

Smartwatches connect intensive care doctors and their patients

Smartwatches connect intensive care doctors and their patients

Researchers have come up with a way to link a smartwatch to the metabolic monitors used with patients in intensive care. If the sensors detect an anomaly, the doctor on duty receives an alert anywhere in the hospital.... read more

Promise Healthcare first long-term acute care (LTAC) facility to install portable CT scanner

Promise Healthcare first long-term acute care (LTAC) facility to install portable CT scanner

Promise Hospital of Florida at The Villages' new BodyTom CT scanner from Samsung NeuroLogica offers in-house scanning for patients who may have difficulty being transported to imaging facilities.... read more

Study: Integration of eICU Telemedicine Program Improves Patient Outcomes

Study: Integration of eICU Telemedicine Program Improves Patient Outcomes

New CHEST study reveals greater integration of eICU telemedicine teams with bedside care achieved shorter lengths of ICU and hospital stays.... read more

Physicians Say 2 Hours a Day Spent on Digital Records

Physicians Say 2 Hours a Day Spent on Digital Records

Clinicians are spending nearly two hours working on electronic health records (EHRs) for every hour they spend with a patient.... read more

A New Technology Sees Through Walls and May Save Your Life Someday

A New Technology Sees Through Walls and May Save Your Life Someday

Where people can only see color through visible light in three bands - red, green and blue, hyperspectral imaging (HSI) divides the spectrum into dozens or hundreds of bands.... read more