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.

GE Healthcare's Venue Go point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) system features AI-enabled tools to speed workflows, including Caption Guidance to help non-expert users capture diagnostic quality cardiac images. These systems helped drive positive earnings for the company in Q2 2025.

Bedside POCUS could save hospitals millions when used on patients with shortness of breath

“The explanation here is simple. Ultrasound gives you more information, and more concrete information, about what’s going on,” authors of a new JAMA study say.

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Healthcare AI today: Healthcare AI on Capitol Hill, hospital leadership’s eye on AI, publicly traded AI recalls, more

AI could appreciably improve the delivery of healthcare services to patients—if only people trusted it. For many, the difference-maker would be nicely crafted federal regulations. 

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Update: FDA announces new Class I recalls due to safety issue with Medtronic catheters

More than 100,000 surgical devices are included in these recalls, and there may be "limited product availability" in the months ahead. The FDA first warned the public about this issue in August. 

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Is AI in healthcare a massive money pit? Maybe, maybe not.

It’s too soon to characterize the economic impact of AI across Western healthcare with anything more than rough guesstimates. This is so for two reasons. 

Philips introduced a new cardiac monitoring telemetry platform designed to help address critical challenges in healthcare, including staff shortages and alarm management. A key component of the solution is the next-generation Telemetry Monitor 5500 is an integrated central monitoring unit solution that integrates the telemetry device platform.

Philips launches smart telemetry platform for cardiac monitoring

Care teams can face alarm and cognitive overload, with an average of 350 alarms going off per patient per day. But Philips' new telemetry platform streamlines alarm management, delivers data-driven insights and automates clinical tasks—with operational simplicity and networking options.

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Radiology department adopts new incidental findings approach that’s closing cases at a 99% clip

Researchers with Northwestern University in Chicago detailed their novel system in an analysis published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

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Florida looks to end all vaccine mandates, including those deemed routine

In a press conference held by Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, condemned all compulsory vaccinations, declaring that the “body is a gift from God.”

Brainomix 360 triples number of stroke patients who regain functional independence.

AI software triples number of stroke patients who achieve functional independence

This week, health officials in the United Kingdom shared how an artificial intelligence-enabled platform has drastically improved stroke outcomes in the region.