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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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FDA highlights risks of evaluating blood pressure with unauthorized medical devices

The agency emphasized that many over-the-counter technologies marketed for this purpose have not been properly evaluated. 

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Healthcare AI today: Another angle on AI regulation, move fast but don’t break things, WISeR in the real world, more

Getting healthcare AI to fulfill its destiny—can we call it that now?—will require ‘scenario-based’ consideration of every use case.

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Lit review identifies a ‘glaring gap’ involving older Americans and healthcare AI

Conventional wisdom has it that older adults willingly lag behind younger subpopulations when it comes to reaping the benefits of emerging healthcare technologies, including AI. 

Joysticks recalled after power wheelchairs move on their own, injuring a patient

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a recall of Mo-Vis BVBA joysticks after a faulty firmware version was linked to the malfunction. Users will need to have their devices upgraded.

MGMA's Anders Gilberg says Congress needs to act soon to preserve access to telemedicine programs.

MGMA: Congress needs to act soon to preserve access to telemedicine programs

Congress needs to act soon to extend telemedicine services that were greatly expanded under COVID provisions, or they will expire by October. Anders Gilberg, senior vice president of government affairs at the Medical Group Management Association, explains concerns raised by doctors and lawmakers.

 

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ED pivots to virtual radiology service, slashing CT turnaround times and lengths of stay

Syracuse, New York-based Upstate Medical University had previously relied on rad residents to handle initial reads, with attendings finalizing interpretation in the a.m. 

Wael Jaber, MD, chair of the 2025 American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) annual meeting, director of nuclear cardiology and a professor of medicine at Cleveland Clinic, spoke at a session on the role of cardiac imagers on the heart team. #ASNC

Multimodality imagers play a critical role in modern heart teams

Heart teams continue to play a major role at hospitals and health systems all over the world. Cardiac imagers who have trained in multiple modalities can provide those teams with a significant amount of value.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared a smart watch artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that tells wearers if they are suspected of having hypertension, which is expected to help notify about 1 million users over the next year. This a is a new feature of the newly launched Apple Watch Ultra 3, which the company unveiled Sept. 9. Apple gained FDA for its Cardiovascular Machine Learning-Based Notification Software Hypertension Notification Feature (HTNF) Sept. 11, 2025.

FDA clears Apple Watch algorithm for detecting hypertension

The FDA’s decision arrived just days after Apple announced the new feature. "This tool empowers patients and clinicians to work together, putting prevention at the center of care," one cardiologist told Cardiovascular Business.