The COVID-19 pandemic made healthcare visits over video or phone the norm, likely turning telehealth into a permanent fixture within the U.S. healthcare system. In fact, the majority of patient access leaders at large hospitals believe 20-30 percent of appointments will happen over video in 2021, according to recent research. Further, an overwhelming portion of those leaders – 95 percent of them – believe the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should continue to reimburse for video
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Diagnostic Imaging
ECRI Institute: Top 10 Health Technology Hazards to Watch in 2021
What You Should Know:
- ECRI Institute identified the complexity of managing medical devices with COVID-19 emergency use authorization as the number one technology hazard in its Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2021 report.
ECRI Institute’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards, now in its 14th year, identifies top health technology concerns that warrant attention from healthcare leaders. The hazards selected are based on a rigorous review of ECRI’s incident
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FCC Unveils 14 Initial Projects Selected for $100M Connected Care Pilot Program
What You Should Know:
- FCC announces initial 14 pilot project selected for $100M Connected Care Pilot Program that will support connected care service across the country and focus on low-income and veteran patients.
The Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) today announced an initial set of 14 pilot projects with
over 150 treatment sites in 11 states that have been selected for the Connected
Care Pilot Program. A total of $26.6 million will be awarded to these
applicants for
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More Than 45 Million Medical Images Are Openly Accessible Online
What You Should Know:
- CybelAngel tools scanned approximately 4.3 billion IP addresses and detected more than 45 million unique medical images left exposed on over 2,140 unprotected servers across 67 countries including the US, UK, and Germany.
- The report highlights the security risks of publicly accessible images containing highly personal information including ransomware and blackmail.
The analyst team at CybelAngel, a global leader in digital risk protection, has discovered
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Nuance Sells Off Transcription and EHR-Go-Live Businesses to DeliverHealth
What You Should Know:
- Nuance announced that it’s planning to sell two sections of its healthcare business – Health Information Management (HIM) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Go-Live Services to a new independent company, called DeliverHealth, in early 2021.
- Nuance will be a minority shareholder of DeliverHealth
and continue to provide its technology to the company.
Nuance
Communications, Inc., today announced the planned sale
of the Health Information Management (HIM)
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Mobile Point-of-Care Ultrasound Is Now A Frontline Warrior in Pandemic
Health authorities need to prioritize delivery and the repurposing of mobile point-of-care ultrasound machines which have proven to be reliable, affordable, and effective in saving the lives of coronavirus patients.
Most Americans are familiar with ultrasound technology from the scans done to check on the status of the fetus during pregnancy.
But far fewer are aware of how valuable mobile versions of these units have also become in America’s emergency rooms where they almost
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Sony Updates NUCLeUS Medical Imaging Platform to Support Remote Patient Observation
What You Should Know:
- Today, Sony announced an update to our NUCLeUS medical
imaging platform, which improves support for remote patient observation.
- NUCLeUS has added new functionality and features,
including powerful bi-directional telestration capabilities allowing multiple
remote users to simultaneously annotate, draw or highlight areas of interest in
a live stream video or still image.
Sony today
announced an update to its vendor-neutral medical imaging platform NUCLeUS.
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Will Nanox Disrupt The X-Ray Systems Market?
With its share price falling from more than $66 to less than $24, September was a tumultuous month for Nanox.
On August 25th, the medical imaging start-up closed its initial public offering, having raised $190m from the sale of 10,555,556 ordinary shares at a price of $18 each. Money poured in as investors were sold on Nanox’s cold cathode x-ray source and the subsequent reduction in costs that it would enable, as well as the vendor’s pay-per-scan pricing model that would let the company
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Fujifilm & Volpara Partner to Help Clinicians Determine Patient Breast Density
What You Should Know:
- FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. and Volpara
Solutions announced the extension of their partnership to provide mammography
facilities and clinicians with breast imaging solutions designed to improve
image quality, streamline workflow and accurately assess a patient's breast
density.
- Building on a successful 6-year partnership, Fujifilm's
customers using ASPIRE Cristalle with Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) now
have access to the latest innovations from
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RADLogics Secures FDA Clearance for AI-Powered Chest X-Ray App for Triage & Prioritization
What You Should Know:
- RADLogics today announced that it has secured
510(k) clearance from the FDA for the company’s novel AI-Powered chest X-ray pneumothorax application,
which identifies and prioritizes chest X-ray scans that appear
to contain a pneumothorax, a collapsed lung, for urgent radiologist review.
- RADLogics’ FDA cleared CT and X-ray solutions
– including this application – are
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