Category: eHealth

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in partnership with the U.S. military, will design an “operating room of the future” that aims to enable emergency medical teams to quicken their responses to life-threatening injuries. read more …read more    

Increased use of health information technology by providers doesn’t necessarily translate to more face time with patients, a new report concludes. read more …read more    

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing to simplify the way it classifies and reclassifies medical devices, opting to do so by administrative order rather the cumbersome rulemaking process. read more …read more    

Continuous, contact-free electronic monitoring of hospital patients helped to reduce length of stay by roughly 9 percent, according to research published this month in the American Journal of Medicine. read more …read more    

LabMD, an Atlanta-based cancer-screening laboratory, has slapped the Federal Trade Commission with a lawsuit seeking to stop what the company calls an “abuse of power and regulation” of patient information without proper authority. read more …read more    

Healthcare organizations struggling with information technology must “adapt or die,” according to a recent article in CIO magazine. read more …read more    

Recalls of medical devices have doubled in the past decade–the number of recalls grew from 604 in 2003 to 1,190 in 2012, an increase of 97 percent, according to recent a U.S. Food and Drug… read more …read more    

Arizona plans to explore best practices and alternative approaches to correctly match patients to all of their available records across multiple organizations. The effort is part of the Health IT… read more …read more