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Digital pathology solutions provider BioImagene has collaborated with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia and Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., in the development of diagnostic tool, Companion Algorithms.
Six additional veteran patients received incorrect doses of radiation during brachytherapy treatment for prostate cancer at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, raising questions about whether still more cases are yet to be discovered in the ongoing investigation, according to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Even when their products are implicated in harm to patients, manufacturers of health IT have contractual and legal protection that renders them virtually "liability-free," according to a March 25 commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The nephrotoxicity associated with iodixanol was not significantly different from that observed with ioversol in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients undergoing coronary angiography, according to a study in the October issue of the American Heart Journal. However, in diabetic patients, the mean peak percentage change (MPPC) was significantly lower in the iodixanol group.
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An automated electronic system that screens intubated ICU trauma patients for acute lung injury (ALI) based on chest x-ray reports and arterial blood gas results is sufficiently accurate to identify many early cases of ALI, according to a single-center validation study in the July/August issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Examining emergency department (ED) chest pain patients with coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is a quick and economical way to rule out serious cardiovascular disease, according to a study presented today at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's annual conference in New Orleans.
Written by Lisa Fratt
As 2008 winds down, we’re examining the year’s top technologies as identified by our readers, visiting with seasoned users across the country to discover how they’ve tapped into top technologies and what they’ve gained in the process.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.