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.

healthcare workers

Financial aid nonprofits merge to do more for patients feeling pinched by medical bills on top of overall inflation

Two medical charities that last year gave $640 million to 200,000 struggling Americans are combining forces so they can expand their collective wherewithal.

Network peer to peer P2P learning web communication interoperability

Clover Health becomes first healthcare payer to meet CMS interoperability standard

Meeting the requirements to become a CMS Aligned Network means medical records on its core Medicare Advantage patients will be made available in real-time upon request, facilitated through secure data exchange made possible by Kno2.

older guy with smartwatch

Do older patients shy away from mHealth apps—or do clinicians too often assume they will?

Researchers: “Clinicians’ perceptions about older patients’ interest in and ability to use mobile health apps may negatively impact recommendation of mHealth apps and subsequent adoption by older adults.”

After traversing the aortic cusp with an electrified wire and balloon inflation, a stent is positioned inside the noncoronary cusp and deployed. Immediately after, a transcatheter aortic valve is expanded, and the stent is crushed on the left ventricular outflow tract wall and annulus, while anchored to the aortic valve leaflet.

Cardiologists perform first TAVR of its kind by anchoring valve to crushed stent

The patient, 78, presented with severe AR and no signs of calcification. She was considered a poor choice for surgery or traditional TAVR due to multiple risks. That is where the new-look ATLAS technique came in.

Ransomware Cyberattack Data Breach

UMMC reopens clinics shut down by ransomware attack as recovery progresses

On Monday, the University of Mississippi Medical Center said its phone systems were once again operational, allowing it to reach out to patients to reschedule missed appointments. Its clinics were shut down statewide to prioritize emergency care, as its hospitals were operating on paper backups.

blood test research laboratory

Labcorp expands use of digital pathology with renewed PathAI partnership

Laborp said the platform from PathAI will allow it to move all laboratory workflow digital, including slide review. The onboard artificial intelligence aims to simplify diagnostics, improving accuracy and turnaround time. 

Exhausted nurse

Post-COVID, nurses still ‘lack confidence in management to act in the best interest of patients’

As of 2024, some 32% of hospital nurses indicated they remained unhappy on the job. No less troublingly, more than a quarter said they wanted to quit work outright. 

Abbott has secured U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its CardioMEMS HERO device, a next-generation pulmonary artery (PA) pressure reader for heart failure patients.

FDA approves next-generation CardioMEMS reader for heart failure monitoring

The updated reader is 60% smaller and offers built-in WiFi connectivity. It works with an implantable sensor to monitor a patient's PA pressure.