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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Twin-engine AI speeds COVID patients through triage

Researchers at New York University have demonstrated an AI-based way to send COVID patients from the ER to the most appropriate care setting according to their individualized risk.  

3 ways AI can enable ‘earlier medicine’ across the care continuum

As its techniques and technologies mature, medical AI will increasingly be used to predict the health trajectories of both outpatients and inpatients. But how will it do at converting educated projections into preventative care?

5 easy actions to boost pediatric vaccination participation

One of the nastiest aspects of the COVID crisis is its possible setting of the stage for one or more pandemics to follow. The risk of such a scenario is heightened by the rate at which moms and dads are avoiding the pediatrician for routine vaccinations.

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HHS offers $2.5M in CARES Act funding to boost health information exchange during crises

Health and Human Services will award up to five grants as part of the program, with a Sept. 1 application deadline. 

‘Imaginative AI’ a strong diagnostic performer vs. doctors

Industry researchers in medical AI have demonstrated a “causal reasoning” algorithm whose diagnostic accuracy would place it among the top 25% of primary care doctors in the U.K. 

Lessons learned: Cardiovascular specialists share 4 key takeaways from the pandemic

COVID-19 disrupted nearly every aspect of the U.S. healthcare system, but it also helped providers examine patient care from a new perspective and ask some big questions.

Medical educators: Appreciate AI’s limitations as well as its potential

Concepts from the art and science of deep learning for medical practice can inform those employed in the art and science of medical education.

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Does AI mean the end for breast radiologists?

Someone had to come right out and ask. Six researchers representing four medical specialties have done so, weighing the odds by reviewing a representative sample of the literature.