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.

Multigenerational health histories strong medicine for preventive health

Broadening clinician access to the health histories of patients’ parents and grandparents would help ward off or better treat numerous chronic illnesses common to middle-aged adults in the U.S.

1 specialty the exception as telehealth continues to tumble

Going by private health-insurance data, national telehealth utilization dropped 12.5% this spring, slipping from 5.6% of claims in March to 4.9% in April.

Telehealth demand starts to soften

As healthcare offices closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth surged. Now that states are reopening, the tide is starting to ebb, according to a recent report from Trilliant.

Cancer patients benefited under universal healthcare

The U.S. military’s universal healthcare system has proved to be a big benefit for one group of patients, according to a new study.

AI guides treatment of World Trade Center responders suffering post-traumatic stress

Working with 9/11 responders as retrospective subjects, researchers in mental health and computer science have shown AI language tools can help predict the course of PTSD.

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How Nevada is creating a public healthcare option

Nevada lawmakers have passed a new law that creates a public healthcare option, aiming to reduce costs and incentivize consumers to consider lower priced healthcare plans rather than none at all. 

 

AI helps head off shock in pediatric sepsis patients

Comparing four methods for predicting septic shock in children hospitalized with sepsis, Johns Hopkins researchers have found a newer machine-learning approach superior to an older one as well as to two conventional methods.

Tell me how you really feel: AI analyzes unbound verbal expression to personalize mental healthcare

Psychology researchers have demonstrated a way to finetune diagnoses of major depression and generalized anxiety disorder by analyzing freely elaborated thoughts and feelings using machine learning and natural language processing.