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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Healthcare AI today: AI stink-eye, disrespect for AI-toting docs, super-eager clinical adopters, more

Gen Xers and their elders tend to believe AI will do more harm than good. More than half of American adults 50 and older place themselves in that somewhat cynical category

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How pairing SAVR with additional heart surgeries affects mortality risk

When older patients undergo SAVR with concomitant procedures, it increases their short- and long-term risks of mortality. Should this influence care teams to consider more transcatheter treatments? 

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AI can be health equity’s best friend—or one of its worst frenemies

AI can hurt or help the cause of advancing equality of resources, services and outcomes in healthcare. If it’s to do more helping than hurting, the technology must permeate primary care—and do so with certain goals and guidelines. 

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Price of care rose 15% after independent practice buyouts, study finds

A new analysis from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that reduced competition among physicians has a similar impact on market dynamics as large-scale health system mergers, despite the former not receiving regulatory attention.

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Medtronic receives key approvals for automated insulin pump

The company's automated insulin pump can now be used to treat more patients thanks to an expanded CE mark approval. Could updates from the FDA be next?

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Wearable tech company pushes back after warning from FDA

The FDA thinks 24/7 fitness trackers from Boston-based Whoop should be regulated like medical devices. Whoop disagrees, however, and neither side appears to be changing its mind. 

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CT workflows improve with help of deep learning 3D camera for patient positioning

These specialized, AI-powered cameras can automate and optimize patient positioning based on their body habitus and placement on the table.

Update: New details emerge about fatal MRI accident in Long Island

The man's wife says he was accompanying her for an MRI of her knee when the tragedy occurred.