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.

AI exposes tactics, routes taken by antibiotic-resistant infections

New research shows horizontal gene transfer is predictable in bacteria by machine learning, a development that could lead to better weapons in the war against E. coli and other bacterial assailants that collaborate to conquer pharmacologic first responders.  

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ACP, AHA name top editors of new internal medicine journal

The new digital journal expects to start seeking submissions later this year. 

What limits AI as it continues ‘significantly altering the fundamental means of biological discovery?’

Could AI help produce a unifying concept of human disease—one that might help prevent, mitigate or cure everything from birth defects and rare cancers to immune disorders and neurological defects?

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Mark Cuban jumps into the PBM space

Famed billionaire Mark Cuban is entering the world of pharmacy benefit management. 

AI scores 1 against a knee injury common among athletes

The AI development team was guided by a sports-medicine specialist dubbed “the go-to orthopedic surgeon for many of the greatest athletes on the planet.”

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Removing bias from the treatment of heart disease

Physician bias can create disparities in patient care, and the team behind a new program at the University of Arizona hopes to address that issue. 

Barrett’s esophagus on AI’s radar

More than one-quarter of the U.S. adult population has Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, or GERD, and the condition saddles as many as 20% of its sufferers with Barrett’s esophagus. The latter is a serious risk factor for esophageal cancer.

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High‐billing cardiologists order more tests when treating AFib—but outcomes do not improve

What do these findings say about current billing policies?