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World’s first telerobotic neurosurgery performed on stroke patient 120 miles away
Neurosurgeon Vitor Mendes Pereira, MD, was in Santiago, Panama, but his patient was in Panama City. "It is the highlight of my career to be involved in this historic achievement," Pereira said.
Cardiologists use endovascular device for brain aneurysms to treat high-risk heart patients
A multidisciplinary research team has found a new use for a reliable medical device. Multiple heart patients have already benefited for the group’s outside-the-box thinking.
When heart patients can’t wait: Urgent TAVR with self-expanding vs. balloon-expandable valves
The high-risk patients who require urgent or emergent TAVR are often excluded from major clinical trials. To learn more about this population, researchers explored data from nearly 600 patients treated at high-volume facilities.
More than 80% of clinicians have had to correct AI-supplied misinformation during patient visits: New patient + provider survey
Meanwhile members of Gen Z are twice as likely as other generations to get sneaky about their use of medical AI.
6 things Medicaid stakeholders can remind the world to always do with healthcare AI
U.S. healthcare will know it’s gotten AI right when the technology demonstrably improves care access, attentiveness and outcomes for the least financially healthy among us.

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Top 10 children's hospitals in the US

U.S. News and World Report recently released its rankings of the Best Children’s Hospitals by Specialty in 2023, designating 10 of them to their Honor Roll for excelling in multiple specialties.

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Anxiety edging out excitement over our AI-everywhere future: Survey

Americans are somewhat more troubled than thrilled over AI’s mounting presence in modern life. But the collective outlook is a rich blend of both.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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Virtual reality during TAVR: Distracting patients linked to key benefits

When patients wear VR glasses during transcatheter aortic valve replacement, they say it helps time go by more quickly and reduces anxiety.

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Cardiology at the supermarket: Shopping carts upgraded to detect signs of AFib

Attaching ECG sensors to the handles of shopping carts could help identify signs of atrial fibrillation in patients who don't even realize they have it.

Top 20 children’s hospitals for cardiology and heart surgery

Did your facility make the cut? For its 2023-2024 list, U.S. News and World Report evaluated data from 119 hospitals and surveyed thousands of pediatric specialists.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

ChatGPT excels at differential diagnostics in hard cases

Today’s generative AI—namely ChatGPT-4—is pretty darned good at parsing out probable diseases in difficult-to-diagnose patient cases.

Care Delivery

World’s first telerobotic neurosurgery performed on stroke patient 120 miles away

Cardiologists use endovascular device for brain aneurysms to treat high-risk heart patients

When heart patients can’t wait: Urgent TAVR with self-expanding vs. balloon-expandable valves

More than 80% of clinicians have had to correct AI-supplied misinformation during patient visits: New patient + provider survey

6 things Medicaid stakeholders can remind the world to always do with healthcare AI