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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New tool solves ‘urgent medical need’ to help patients with multiple pulmonary nodules

The machine learning-based method can ensure clinicians keep pace with the growing number of people presenting with more than one lung abnormality.

Female physicians associated with better outcomes, especially when treating female patients

The systematic review, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, included 13 different studies published from 2009 to 2019. 

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CVS Health to re-enter ACA marketplace

CVS Health, which owns health insurance giant Aetna, will return to the Obamacare marketplace to sell individual insurance plans in 2022, the company announced during a fourth-quarter earnings call.

Everyday people photos equip AI for skin-cancer screening

AI can be taught to flag possible skin cancers on photos taken with smartphone cameras—and the images can be ordinary “people shots” rather than closeups of suspicious lesions.

Bernard Lown, groundbreaking cardiologist and influential antiwar activist, dies at 99

Lown was an innovator in the field of arrhythmia research and led the development of the direct current defibrillator. He also helped found an organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. 

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Humana partners with IBM Watson on AI solution

Health insurance giant Humana is joining forces with IBM Watson to equip Humana’s Employer Group members with a conversational AI solution. 

 

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Electronic transactions could save healthcare industry $16.3B

Transitioning to fully electronic transactions could save the healthcare industry $16.3 billion, or about 42% of existing annual spend on administrative transactions.

 

Machine learning helps guide difficult decisions on inpatient transfers

The tool makes the call based on factors readily available to busy clinicians, respecting their workflows while helping patients and families decide whether moving to access a stepped-up care setting would fit well with their aims and values.