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.

Radiology providers from Israel share how their hospital handled the mass casualties caused by the October 2023 terror attacks.

Radiology lessons learned from the 2023 terror attacks in Israel

Soroka University Medical Center served as the primary evacuation destination after the attack, accepting nearly 700 injured patients, most of whom needed medical imaging.

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Study highlights CT findings that could mask lung cancer, leading to delayed diagnosis

For many patients with interstitial lung disease, cancer could go undetected for years, putting them at risk of disease progression that would require more extensive treatment.

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Machine learning model predicts which radiotherapy patients are most vulnerable to adverse side effects

The model integrates structured EHR data spanning patient characteristics, cancer treatment, vitals, lab results, medications and prior acute care utilization to determine an individual’s risk of requiring urgent care throughout the course of their treatment.

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Fraudulent nursing degree program linked to patient death in Missouri, prosecutors argue

Carleen Noreus, 51, faces allegations of running a pay-for-play nursing degree program, which may have helped unqualified people achieve licenses. Prosecutors are attempting to link the program to a medical error that killed a patient.

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Healthcare AI today: Blind prior-auth pilots, sputtering healthtech romance, solo AI surgeons, more

Meet a robot surgeon who could operate on patients with no human in the room. 

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Women who miss 1st breast cancer screening much likelier to die from disease

The increased risk of mortality is modifiable, experts believe, and likely attributed to late detection of the disease. 

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Bankrupt Exactech settles case of faulty knee implants for $8M

The settlement was reached with the U.S. Department of Justice as part of Chapter 11 proceedings. Exactech is currently under restructuring that will see its business bought out by multiple investment firms.

Compensation for U.S. cardiologists is up across the board, according to a recent survey published by MedAxiom, an American College of Cardiology company. The report identified similar trends for cardiovascular surgeons, highlighting the country’s high demand for all heart specialists in 2024 and beyond.

CVD responsible for 1 in 3 deaths around the world

Cardiovascular disease remains the world’s leading cause of death, according to a special report from the American College of Cardiology. The new analysis, described by one cardiologist as a "wake-up call," includes data from more than 200 countries and territories.