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 Delivery, Digital Transformation, Precision Medicine, Remote Monitoring and Telehealth.

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SavvyWire OpSens TAVR guidewire owned by Haemonetics

New 3-in-1 TAVR guidewire capable of hemodynamic measurements, LV pacing impresses cardiologists

The company behind the new technology was recently acquired for approximately $253 million. 

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Cardiologists, other physicians say the shift from private practice to corporate ownership is bad for patients

How do changes in ownership impact patient care? That was one of the many topics explored in a new survey of U.S. physicians.

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Hospital understaffing complaints dog big Northeastern state

Healthcare regulators in the country’s fourth most populous state are getting barraged with complaints about hospital understaffing.

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Congressional group wants to grill FDA on recently rejected OTC decongestant

Three months after an FDA panel declared a popular cold remedy no more effective than a sugar pill, a House oversight panel wants to ask FDA leadership a pointed question: What took you so long?

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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How to tap QMS methodologies for speeding AI adoptions

It may hold that applying established people/process/technology principles can help hospitals move AI from experimental research settings to regulated clinical practice.

The Medtronic Symplicity Spyral Renal Denervation system uses a catheter that curls in the renal artery to place radiofrequency electrodes against the vessel wall to ablate the nerves that control vasodilation, so the artery can be propped in the fully open position.

First US patient treated with Medtronic’s FDA-approved renal denervation system

Interventional cardiologist David Kandzari, MD, performed the procedure just days after the device received full FDA approval. 

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‘We should halt this practice’: Common hormone treatment for donated hearts may be harmful

"This practice has been adopted by multiple organ-procurement organizations and is used on thousands of organ donors each year, without ever having been rigorously studied," one researcher said. 

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