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.

Healthcare AI newswatch: Fail-fast AI skunk works, writerly doctors avoiding AI scribes, more
Is trial and error any way for a sprawling health system to roll out AI? Duke Health’s chief medical information officer believes so.
Epic, Microsoft lead the AI vendor charge into healthcare: KLAS
Many if not most hospitals and other provider organizations take a decided interest in what their peer institutions are doing with AI. A major motivator for the keen curiosity is gauging how well one is keeping up with the Joneses. So to speak.
Quality of care for heart patients does not improve in first year of ACO participation
Researchers tracked patient outcomes through the use of 15 performance measures related to hypertension, coronary artery disease, heart failure and atrial fibrillation.
Bill that would require providers report extravasations of radioactive drugs is back on the House floor
Patient advocacy groups say the proposal "is common-sense legislation that will protect patients."
Patients eligible for both breast and lung cancer screening are getting mammograms while ditching low-dose CT in droves
This finding underlines the need for interventions to increase LCS awareness and address common barriers such as confusing eligibility criteria.

Radiologist has license revoked following 'botched' cosmetic procedures

"Why are you, a radiologist, doing a tummy tuck? How do you even know how to do this?"

A simple way to help cardiologists communicate with patients

A new JAMA Internal Medicine study suggests that communication coaching for cardiologists may help improve patient interactions by encouraging questions and increasing empathy.

Common features of missed lung cancer on chest X-ray

It is crucial for radiologists to beware of these missed cases in routine practice, experts wrote recently in Clinical Imaging.

Imaging required to monitor effects of new Alzheimer's drug could inhibit its uptake

Leqembi can cause amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA), which must be assessed on imaging.

Imaging considerations included in tattoo guidelines for at-risk cancer population

Cases of mistaken malignancy have become more common as the popularity of tattoos has grown in recent years.

DOJ to appeal abortion pill case to Supreme Court

“The Justice Department strongly disagrees with the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA to deny in part our request for a stay pending appeal,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said April 13.

Political climate leads to loss of labor and delivery services

Bonner General Health, based in Sandpoint, Idaho, alerted the public about the upcoming discontinuation of labor and delivery services.

Oracle, John Snow helping FDA turn unstructured clinical notes into population health insights

The FDA-led Sentinel Initiative is tapping Oracle’s life-sciences division, Cerner Enviza, to spearhead development of AI tools for rendering EHR-bound clinical notes as usable pointers for clinicians and researchers.

Patient Care

Healthcare AI newswatch: Fail-fast AI skunk works, writerly doctors avoiding AI scribes, more

Epic, Microsoft lead the AI vendor charge into healthcare: KLAS

Quality of care for heart patients does not improve in first year of ACO participation

Bill that would require providers report extravasations of radioactive drugs is back on the House floor

Patients eligible for both breast and lung cancer screening are getting mammograms while ditching low-dose CT in droves