Today, Nuance announced it has added several new innovations to its PowerScribe 360 version 3.5 diagnostic imaging solution designed to help radiologists enhance patient care. These include multimedia reports, advanced lung cancer screening registry reporting and enhanced quality guidance content for radiologists at the point of interpretation.
Multimedia Reporting
Nuance PowerScribe 360 version 3.5 enables relevant PACS images to be embedded into reports for sharing of multimedia reports
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Archives for 2015
AIA, Konica Minolta Launch Digital Health Accelerator in Singapore
AIA Group Limited and Konica Minolta, Inc. are teaming up to launch the 'AIA - Konica Minolta Digital Health Accelerator' in Singapore. The 12 week program supports entrepreneurs and businesses to deliver innovative solutions through integrating data to healthcare delivery.
The Singaporean Government's spend on Healthcare in Singapore is expected to double to SG$8 billion by the end of 2015, from SG$4 billion in 2011. 'Digital Health' solutions present one of the most promising growth
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Dr. Saif Abed Talks Current State of NHS & Impact of Health IT
AbedGraham’s Dr. Saif Abed talks about what’s ahead for England and America when it comes to HIT and healthcare reform.
It’s hard not to look over one’s shoulder during a test, isn’t it—especially when the right answer seems just out of reach. The same could be said when comparing America’s healthcare reform to England’s National Health Care Services’ (NHS). Of course, it’s a lot easier to glance over a nearby shoulder than across the pond. Yet according to AbedGraham’s Dr. Saif Abed, it’s
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AMIA Urges CMS to Rethink Informatics Policies as New Models of Care Emerge
In comments submitted to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the nation’s leading data scientists in healthcare urged federal officials to use new payment policies to reassess how providers are required to use informatics tools, and rethink how quality is measured in a digital world. Officials from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) said new and novel ways to deliver care will rely on dynamic uses of information technology (IT) and other informatics tools, so
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Robotic Surgery Is the Future of Medicine
Editor's Note: Richard van Hooijdonk is a futurist and international keynote speaker on future technologies and disruption and how these technologies change our everyday lives. Van Hooijdonk and his international team research ‘mega trends’ on digital health, robotic surgery,drones, the internet-of-things, 3D/4D printing, Big Data and other how new technologies affects many industries.
The human body is a rather untidy place where your organs, bones, flesh, muscles, arteries
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UCSF, Voalte Partner to Develop Social-based Clinical Communication Platform
Sarasota, FL-based healthcare communication company, Voalte is partnering with the Center for Digital Health Innovation (CDHI) at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2016 to develop Voalte Story, a product based on CareWeb, a clinician facing interactive patient wall that caregivers may access to post and link texts or alarms to a specific patient.
Built upon Voalte Platform, the company’s new communication solution, Voalte Story utilizes “enterprise social-based communication”
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The Role of Secure Messaging in the Digital Health Revolution
While the world focuses on holograms and telemedicine, secure communication technology is making what could arguably be considered the most profound impact on the healthcare system. It’s less Sci-Fi than robotic surgery. Less Silicon Valley than a virtual visit. But secure messaging technology is addressing the most fundamental need within the healthcare system: effective communication.
This sponsored report by DocHalo explains the rise of secure messaging in healthcare,
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4 Reasons Why Fossil Acquired Misfit for $260M
On Thursday, watch maker giant Fossil Group, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement to acquire wearable technology company Misfit, Inc.for $260 million. The purchase price, which includes transaction costs, will be funded through a combination of cash on hand and bank debt.
Fossil Group expects the acquisition to close before the end of fiscal 2015, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval. Misfit founder and CEO Sonny Vu will now serve as president and chief
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Uber Teams with Voalte, SMH to Offer Patients Rides to Doctor’s Appointment
Sarasota, FL-based healthcare communication company Voalte is teaming up with Uber and Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, to create a new Voalte app that could make scheduling transportation easier for patients who need a ride to their doctors’ or medical appointments.
Pilot Program Details
The pilot program will integrate Voalte's app with Uber’s internet-enabled platform to give a group of Sarasota Memorial patients discharged from the hospital a convenient option to pre-arrange
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Practice Fusion Appoints Tom Langan as Permanent CEO
Practice Fusion, the cloud-based EHR platform has appointed Tom Langan as its permanent Chief Executive Officer. Langan has been interim CEO of Practice Fusion since August of this year, replacing Ryan Howard who assumed the position of Chairman of the Board. This also follows Langan’s appointment as a member of Practice Fusion’s Board of Directors in September of this year, a role which he will continue to fill following his appointment as permanent CEO.
“Practice Fusion has been a
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