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.

FDA grants passage to autonomous, biology-guided radiotherapy

A therapeutic oncology company has been cleared to market a cancer treatment that that turns a tumor’s own biology into a self-signaling target for radiation therapy.

6 actions to help build a better workplace in the wake of the pandemic

Whatever specific shape work takes in the near and distant future, it’s likely the COVID-19 era will be looked back upon as a before-and-after dividing line.

Are large health systems delivering better outcomes?

"Small quality differentials combined with large price differentials suggests that health systems have not, on average, realized their potential for better care at equal or lower cost," Harvard researchers found. 

 

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More than a feeling? Social isolation, loneliness linked to a higher heart failure risk

A new study published in JACC: Heart Failure offers more evidence that a patient's feelings can strongly influence their risk of poor cardiovascular health. 

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Imaging guidelines cut unnecessary child CT scans in half

Results demonstrate how implementing adjusted procedures to limit radiation exposures for children may lower cancer risks and save on health care costs.

COVID in pregnant women manifests by variant in developing offspring: MRI study

Prenatal MRI is adept at revealing potentially damaging placental lesions affecting fetuses whose mothers were infected with COVID-19 while carrying.

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New rule aims to claw back overcharges from MA plans

The move could reclaim overpayments of an estimated $479 million from 2018 and $4.7 billion over 10 years.

Portable orthopedic tomosynthesis cleared for U.S. sales

The FDA has cleared U.K.-based Adaptix to market a 3D X-ray system that, according to the company, images hands, feet and elbows “at a fraction of the radiation dose and per-study cost of traditional CT.”