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Electronic bandage may heal chronic wounds

A new smart bandage may change our wound caring practices. Researchers have designed a "smart" bandage that is much more effective and faster-acting ...

Heart device failure: Medicare spent $1.5B over 10 years to replace defective implants

Medicare paid at least $1.5 billion over a decade to replace seven types of defective heart devices, a government watchdog says. The ...

In Oregon, end-of-life wishes are just a click away

Just four hours earlier, Sallie Cutler had been sharing Mother’s Day lunch with her mom, Alyce Cheatham. Then, that same evening, Cheatham, 96, ...

Automating a little can help a lot

Written by: David Mitzel Hospitals are nothing if not busy places. Doctors, nurses, patients, families, and support staff make up the human fabric ...

Sepsis awareness beyond September

As September draws to a close, so does this year's "Sepsis Awareness Month." With the hopes of extending attention beyond this month on ...

Wolters Kluwer and Vocera arm Halifax Health with rapid sepsis identification solutions for improved patient outcomes and safety

Wolters Kluwer Health and Vocera Communications, (VCRA) have teamed to arm Halifax Health with a high-powered surveillance solution to advance its battle ...

Electronic bandage may heal chronic

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Heart device failure: Medicare spent

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In Oregon, end-of-life wishes are

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Automating a little can help

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Sepsis awareness beyond September

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Wolters Kluwer and Vocera arm

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Wolters Kluwer and Vocera arm Halifax Health with rapid sepsis identification solutions for improved patient outcomes and safety

Wolters Kluwer Health and Vocera Communications, (VCRA) have teamed to arm Halifax Health with a high-powered surveillance solution to advance its battle against sepsis. Linking the real-time clinical surveillance and analy...

This technology may allow computers to sniff out diseases

Patients give off a unique odor that can hold clues to any medical problems going on in their bodies, but it can't be detected easily by humans. Also in technology news, doctors ponder the future of artificial intellige...

Virtual reality project allows doctors to teleport into a heart

“I can literally see where the blood’s coming from and where it’s going in a way that I never had,” says Dr. Christopher Knoll, a Stanford pediatric cardiology fellow. In other health IT news, an ER doctor wins millio...

LA County Department Of Health Services selects Cerner’s population health management platform

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LACDHS), in collaboration with the California PRIME Project (1115 MediCal waiver), has expanded its relationship with Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, to...

Carilion Clinic to implement LogicStream Platform to reduce CAUTI and VTE

LogicStream Health, announced today that Carilion Clinic will implement its LogicStream Platform to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) and venous thromboembolism (VTE) using clinical process measureme...

HHS awards $4.1 million to Hologic to develop better Zika blood screening test

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response announced a $4.1 million agreement with Hologic, of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to advance the develop...

HHS awards $5.1 million to InBios to advance Zika diagnostic

A blood test that may reduce from days to hours the time needed to diagnose patients with recent Zika virus infections will receive advanced development support from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) O...

Covenant Health selects Cerner’s enterprise-wide clinical, financial and population health IT system

Covenant Health, an integrated not-for-profit health system based in eastern Tennessee, has selected Cerner’s comprehensive suite of integrated health care information technology (IT) solutions to support clinical, financia...

American Heart Association and the Amerigroup Foundation unveil hands-only CPR training kiosk at BWI airport to help millions of travelers learn a lifesaving skill

Travelers who have time to spare before their flight departs can learn Hands-Only CPR in about five minutes at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), where a new interactive kiosk at Gate B7 will ...

Sepsis Alliance mourns loss of boxing legend Muhammad Ali to sepsis at age 74

Sepsis Alliance joins with billions of people around the world in mourning the death of Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend known as "The Greatest." Ali, who had been battling Parkinson's Disease since his diagnosis in 1984, has ...

JAMIA study: Wolters Kluwer surveillance system reduces sepsis deaths

The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today that The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)...

The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care and Johns Hopkins Medicine receive PCORI award to address health disparities gap

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) awarded the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) and Johns Hopkins Medicine funding through the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award program to develop, nur...

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