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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Walmart teams up with Epic for health centers

Walmart has partnered with health records system provider Epic to standardize EHR tools and processes at its health centers.

 

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Private-insurance policyholders are most satisfied with United Healthcare, Humana

United Healthcare and Humana are the top health insurance providers when it comes to satisfaction rankings.

 

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Cardiac ICUs with shock teams deliver superior patient care

Facilities with dedicated shock teams delivered shorter lengths of stay and a lower mortality rate. 

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Best of the best? Meet the world’s top 250 hospitals for cardiology

Fifteen of the list's top 25 hospitals are located in the United States. 

5 Years into the Cloud, John Muir Health Is Just Getting Started

Sponsored by Sectra

One 3D mammogram acquired via digital breast tomosynthesis adds about 500 MB of image data to a hospital’s storage system. That’s the average. On the high end, a single study can occupy as much as 3 GB of real estate on a finite-volume storage server.

Cardiologist turns years of experience into a book, covering everything from heart attacks to COVID-19

Each chapter of the new book is modeled after a real-life patient encounter, starting with the initial visit and then taking readers through the entire process.  

AI fed baseline intake information can’t predict psychiatric outcomes

AI should not be used to predict the course of clinical depression if all it has to work with are new patients’ medical records of past diagnoses, medications, encounters and patient-reported outcomes.

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CMS extends Obamacare open enrollment

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has extended the Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment period this fall by one month.