Tag: Clinical

February 25, 2016

Healthcare organizations are recognizing that clinical decision support technology that integrates with electronic health records can be utilized to improve quality of care and better utilize staff and resources. Community Medical Centers, for instance, had already embarked on adoption of […]

February 19, 2016

Engineered gene drives, which have the potential to spread desirable genes throughout wild populations or to suppress harmful species, have received a lot of recent attention because of their potential to control organisms, such as mosquitoes that carry diseases such […]

February 9, 2016

An experimental nanoparticle therapy that combines low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and fish oil preferentially kills primary liver cancer cells without harming healthy cells, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report. “This approach offers a potentially new and safe way of treating liver […]

June 24, 2015

Sometimes, we like to think of patient behavior as separate from human behavior, and analyze the two separately. But, patients, like all humans, need to be motivated. Whether this is intrinsic, extrinsic or both, we need to be motivated to […]

June 19, 2015

  The global market for e-prescribing will reach $887.8 million in 2019, according to a recent report published by Persistence Market Research The market, valued at $250.2 million in 2013, is expected to grow at a 23.5 percent annual compound […]

June 15, 2015

When it comes to telemedicine—a market that stood at $17.8 billion globally in 2014, and is anticipated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 18.4 percent through 2020, according to recent research—one of the segment’s most critical issues […]

May 11, 2015

Primary Performance End Point Met in First Study of Calcivis® Caries Activity Imaging System Calcivis, a medical devices company focused on revolutionising the management of tooth decay and enabling preventive dentistry, today announces headline results from the first clinical study […]

May 5, 2015

TxCell SA (FR0010127662 – TXCL), a biotechnology company developing innovative, personalized T-cell immunotherapies using antigen specific regulatory T-cells (Ag-Tregs) for severe chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, today announces that activity and tolerance data for its second lead product Col-Treg were […]

April 24, 2015

At first glance, patient satisfaction surveys that are linked to hospital Medicare payments may seem great in theory. But tying hospital payments to subjective patient experience metrics may actually result in serious harm by diverting attention away from the clinical […]

April 20, 2015

Health Affairs has published a paper titled: National Expenditure For False-Positive Mammograms And Breast Cancer Overdiagnoses Estimated at $4 Billion A Year. The loaded headline and article, appearing in an otherwise helpful issue on “Cost & Quality of Cancer Care,” […]

April 20, 2015

More healthcare organizations than ever are embarking on value-based payment programs, such as the Medicare Shared Savings Program and commercial accountable care organization initiatives. These program participants are discovering that efficiently managing populations of patients, especially high-risk patients, is essential […]