Patient Care

This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

Trump Great Healthcare Plan

In brief: Trump’s ‘Great Healthcare Plan’ | Nat’l healthcare spending | Working families and healthcare affordability

President Trump’s outline is largely an exercise in thinking out loud since it can’t propel anything consequential without legislative action in Congress. Still, the plan—and the reactions it’s eliciting—warrant a look. 

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TAVR’s next big challenge: Providing consistent relief for heart patients with aortic regurgitation

TAVR has already transformed care for patients with severe aortic stenosis. Will it make a similar impact on the treatment of aortic regurgitation?

AI workslop rework

AI roundup: Of workslop and rework | Patent that tech, industry player | Artificial Intellectualism, anyone?

Across industries, more than a third of the time saved by AI gets eaten by overstretched humans who have to clean up the technology’s sloppy work. 

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Vista AI secures $30M in new funding, eyes expansion into remote MR imaging operations

The company currently has an FDA-cleared cardiac MRI platform but is looking to further its reach into other anatomies, such as the brain, prostate and spine.

Low-volume operators linked to worse outcomes after TAVR, M-TEER

Researchers tracked data from more than 400,00 patients, sharing their findings in JAMA Cardiology.

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In brief: Cancer survival | Difficult patients | IVF moms | Murderous surgeon

People diagnosed with cancer in the 2020s have a much greater chance of beating the disease than they would have had in decades past.

Compensation for U.S. cardiologists is up across the board, according to a recent survey published by MedAxiom, an American College of Cardiology company. The report identified similar trends for cardiovascular surgeons, highlighting the country’s high demand for all heart specialists in 2024 and beyond.

Cardiovascular health in the United States: Exploring the good, the bad and the ugly

A new comprehensive report detailed the latest stats and trends in hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke and many other areas of interest. “Progress in cardiovascular health depends on knowing where we stand,” the authors wrote. “To improve, we must measure—not occasionally, but consistently, transparently and with purpose.”

Innovation Team

AI roundup: FDA reassures innovators, Claude challenges ChatGPT, health system goes DIY with AI, more

The FDA wants designers of goods in two health-tech categories to worry more about supplying innovative products than about pleasing the FDA.