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.

Deep learning to improve immunotherapies for cancer, other diseases

Johns Hopkins researchers have used deep neural networks to draw important insights—prescriptive as well as descriptive—into adaptive immunity from massive stores of T-cell receptor sequencing data.

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Algorithm’s ‘unexpected’ weakness raises larger concerns about AI’s potential in broader populations

Researchers reported lower sensitivity and positive predictive values compared to prior studies when using a federally cleared support tool to identify intracranial hemorrhages.

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GE Healthcare debuts new AI offering for cardiac imaging

The new AI tool can be used alongside GE Healthcare’s full line of Venue ultrasound systems, including the new Venue Fit. 

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How to make virtual healthcare personal

In healthcare, it is likely that an increased demand for telehealth will remain, meaning providers will need to continue ramping up their capabilities and personalizing this care.

 

Individuals with MS well served by monitoring with ML

Noting that multiple sclerosis now affects more people between 50 and 60 than any other age group, researchers have shown how machine-learning gait analysis can help personalize therapy regimens.

COVID-19 coronavirus

Growing library of literature on COVID-focused AI found wanting for usefulness

Academic researchers in the U.K. have completed a systematic review of 62 representative studies on the use of AI for COVID-19 diagnostics and prognostics on X-rays and CT scans. Their findings may strike some as a setback.  

Bobby Brown, Texas cardiologist and World Series-winning third basemen for the New York Yankees, dies at 96

Brown played for the Yankees for eight seasons, served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and spent 30 years working in Texas as a cardiologist.

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Cheaper imaging-guided alternative used far less frequently than hysterectomy for postpartum bleeding

Women who had their uterus removed via this method paid $18,000 more in hospital charges when compared to uterine artery embolization, rads found.