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.

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American Society for Radiation Oncology seeks to simplify clinical guidelines

ASTRO recently inked a memorandum of understanding with its overseas counterpart, the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, hoping to simplify clinical guidelines worldwide. 

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ROI research: Community health workers are an unsung bargain

U.S. healthcare gets plenty of bang for its buck out of community health workers (CHWs), according to a systematic review of the relevant published research. 

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Despite 63% increase in mental health utilization, overdoses and suicides for men rise

No group fared particularly well in an analysis from Trilliant Health looking at publicly reported data. Most of the new utilization of mental health services was for anxiety, with women seeking care most often.

Devi Nair, MD, director of electrophysiology and research, St. Bernards Medical Center and Arrhythmia Research Group, spoke with Cardiovascular Business at the Heart Rhythm 2026 meeting in the above video interview. She explained both the explosion of PFA use since the first FDA approvals in 2024, and the recently discovered complications of coronary vessel spasm and hemolysis and how newer PFA technology might address this.

PFA has been a game-changer for heart patients—but there are still risks

Devi Nair, MD, reviewed some of the rare complications clinicians are seeing with PFA.

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Beware of temptations to commit 1 (or more) of the 7 deadly sins common to healthcare AI

Researchers warn of potential perdition—so to speak—for doing algorithmic medicine wrong in any of these easily avoidable ways. 

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‘Best Countries’ report: Middling scores for health cut into US’s bid for overall greatness

A meticulous comparison of quality-of-life factors across 100 countries has yielded good news and bad news for the United States of America.

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Are White men victims of their own top-dog status? Equity researchers eye provocative hypothesis through lens of health and wellbeing

Conventional wisdom holds that social standing and economic stability tend to manifest as long life, good health and optimal wellbeing. In the U.S., the subpopulation holding the most such power and footing is White men. So: What has happened to this demographic? 

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Consolidation of physician practices proceeds apace, corporatizing medicine one acquisition at a time

The days when most doctors worked in independent practice settings are fading from memory like old photoprints in a musty scrapbook.