Top 5 HealthTech Stories
Who Is to Blame for Hospital Readmissions – Patients or Providers?
By Chip Grant, MD, Founder and CEO at Watershed Health For a country that has been focused on improving healthcare quality and safety for decades, the U.S. has made alarmingly little progress. Since 2000, outcomes data has remained stagnant at best, and in some cases, has worsened. Nowhere is this trend more concerning than in post-acute care. In addition to costing the U.S. healthcare system over $40 billion annually, avoidable hospital readmissions are a major [...]
VA’s National Teleradiology Program Continues Growth Trajectory
HealthLevel, Inc., innovator of Foundations™, an enterprise-grade business analytics reporting and workflow platform, announces continued success supporting the dramatic growth of the Veterans Health Administration National Teleradiology Program (NTP). Launched in 2007, NTP has grown [...]
New Method to Detect Cardiovascular Disease
Invention opens doors for medical device manufacturers to develop at-home or wearable devices to measure endothelial health Endothelial function, like blood pressure, is a powerful predictor of heart attack and stroke; emerging studies have linked [...]
Atrium Health Debuts Complete Telemedicine Offering
Atrium Health Virtual Edge offers unified platform for vast array of virtual health expertise and professional services Atrium Health has announced it is now offering a complete array of virtual care capabilities, Atrium Health Virtual [...]
How AI can Enable Significantly Reduced Pediatric CT Dose Without Jeopardizing Image Quality
By: Mikael Strindlund, CEO at AlgoMedica | Summary Pediatric radiology teams strive to do everything possible to minimize dose exposure to children during a CT exam. However, even when deploying the latest scanner technologies in [...]
