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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CDC vaccine committee issues new guidance for COVID-19 shots

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that all Americans six months and older consult a clinician before deciding to get a COVID vaccine, ending the pandemic-era policy that broadly encouraged getting the inoculation.

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Top US heart hospital launches new AI research lab

Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital aims to take its use of AI during interventional procedures to the next level and find new ways to transform patient care. 

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Healthcare AI today: Inflationary AI, China’s AI vs. ours, Joint Commission AI guidance, more

Picture yourself interacting with an AI model that can tell you when you might develop any of 1,000 disease conditions over the coming 10+ years. OK, now see yourself finding out such a model is already here.

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5 signals EMS is ripe and ready for AI

Emergency medical services are there when you need them. Yet they barely come up in healthcare strategy discussions. AI could help change that. 

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Robin the Robot serves up smiles at nursing homes, children’s hospitals

The AI-powered device is helping alleviate staff shortages by making rounds and checking on patients. 

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Radiation exposure during imaging may be causing some pediatric cancer cases

Although the risk of developing cancer due to radiation exposure during medical imaging is small, there are clear associations between the two.

Kimberly Campbell, RN, ANP-BC, nurse practitioner, Saint Luke's Cardiovascular Consultants, explains how her health system took a heart team approach in its wound care transition program for peripheral artery disease (PAD) and critical limb ischemia (CLI) patients that lowered their amputation rate my more than 50%.

St. Luke’s cuts PAD amputation rate in half with heart team-led wound transition program

Kimberly Campbell, RN, nurse practitioner, Saint Luke's Cardiovascular Consultants, explains how her health system took a heart team approach toward peripheral artery disease. 

 

Mayo Clinic's AI Nurse Virtual Assistant

Mayo Clinic debuts its AI-powered virtual nursing assistant

The nonprofit health system said the new tool has been in development since 2024 and is currently being used by thousands of nurses at its hospitals. The generative AI pulls information from disparate systems into one place, including patient records and care protocols.