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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Starting salaries in cardiology down 10% as other specialties thrive

Starting salaries for specialty physicians are on the rise, according to a new report from AMN Healthcare. Why is that not the case for cardiologists? 

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Experts advocate for more intensive head-and-neck cancer follow-up using FDG-PET/CT

Scientists believe this is the first series demonstrating a significant survival difference in patients monitored with an intensive follow-up strategy via 18F-fludeoxyglucose–positron emission tomography.  

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Alternative TAVR techniques: How to proceed when transfemoral access is not recommended

A team of researchers from the United States and Sweden explored data from nearly 12,000 TAVR patients for a new systematic review and meta-analysis. 

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Microplastics identified in heart tissue samples—are surgeries to blame?

Tiny fragments of plastic are commonly found deep inside the human body. Heart surgery, it seems, is one of many ways these microplastics are reaching their destination. 

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Diagnostic errors occur mostly when radiologists exceed their average daily production

It may be necessary to monitor physicians' average daily productivity numbers over more extended periods of time to address this issue. 

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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Overheard this week: Notable quotes on healthcare AI

“Until there is a global consensus on how this is regulated, Asian countries—where data privacy is less of a focus—could see a clear contrast with the West in how AI is used.”

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AHA head: ‘Time to hold commercial health insurers accountable’

The problem of commercial health insurers standing between patients and providers is bad and only getting worse.