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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Mammography guideline changes have produced a ‘harmful’ spillover effect

Mammography screening trends had remained flat, but they fell across all age groups after the USPSTF issued new guidelines in 2009.

Researchers building ‘commonsense AI’ from baby’s mind up

The project may inform theories of human neurodevelopment as dynamically as it advances computer and data science.

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Humana to leave commercial insurance in favor of government programs

Humana plans to pull out of the commercial insurance space over the next 18 to 24 months.

New patient-specific heart models could change how cardiologists make treatment decisions

The 3D-printed models are soft, flexible and can mimic the way a patient's heart may respond to different interventions. 

More than 100 healthcare groups unite in support of prior authorization reform

The AMA and 118 other healthcare groups are urging CMS to finalize reforms that target prior authorization in Medicare Advantage plans that delay, deny and disrupt medically necessary care to patients.

UnitedHealth Group closes $5.4B acquisition of LHC Group

UnitedHealth Group has closed its $5.4 billion acquisition of home health care giant LHC Group, the company confirmed in a new filing.

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More hospitals are complying with price transparency law

Even as progress is being made, some lawmakers want to increase penalties on hospitals that do not comply. 

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Black patients more likely to experience dialysis graft failure, costly repercussions

When rads are forced to repeat such procedures within 30 days, patients can experience increased risk of death, alongside the added burden to the health system, experts wrote in Radiology.