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.

5 ways AI stands to advance the state of burn care

AI has “remarkable potential” to improve diagnostic accuracy, care efficiency and workflow optimization in the surgical subspecialty of burn care.

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Cardiologist gets new trial nearly 5 years after being found guilty of healthcare fraud

When the veteran cardiologist was first found guilty back in 2016, a U.S. attorney called the decision a “milestone in an investigation spanning several years.” 

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Burnout and exhaustion in healthcare go well beyond physicians

More than 26,000 healthcare workers were surveyed in both 2015 and 2017, answering questions about exhaustion, burnout, job satisfaction and more. 

Google Health is no more?

Google is scattering its healthcare endeavors across separate departments, according to a memo leaked to Insider.

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New AI model predicts heart failure hospitalizations

Detecting heart failure issues early on, one researcher observed, can improve patient care and hospital efficiency at the same time. 

AI innovators lauded for sharing data, questioned for making it open-access

Along with a curated and annotated image dataset, the share includes code, network architecture and trained model weights.

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Pandemic pushing ophthalmology into the arms of AI-aided telehealth

Teleophthalmology incorporating AI has a bright future in advanced vision care, and the potential indications branch out in many directions from screening for diabetic retinopathy. 

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Physician compensation rose as productivity fell in 2020

Physicians received higher pay in 2020, with a minor compensation increase, according to the annual AMGA Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey.