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 notable AI advances presented at RSNA 2020

More than 105 exhibitors presented AI-specific wares in the virtual AI showcase. That was down from 2019’s pre-COVID 150 but still easily beat 2018’s head count, around 75.

Mental illnesses diagnosable by AI focused on Facebook

Drawing on nothing more than Facebook activity, psychiatric AI can distinguish individuals headed for hospitalization with schizophrenia from those with worsening mood disorders such as clinical depression and bipolar states. 

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AI-based mammography tool earns FDA nod

A women’s health technology company has received the FDA’s blessing to market deep learning-based software designed to help breast radiologists spot hard-to-find nascent cancers in 3D mammograms.

AI personalizes hospital selection for elective surgery patients

Both outcomes and costs may vary widely from one patient to the next even in hospitals with consistently strong quality scores. Machine learning can help optimize the selection process for each patient as an individual.

Affective computing could make healthcare AI more considerate of human feelings

Only two of 156 scientific papers on AI published over the past 12 years used emotion as input data, according to a new literature review. And the reviewers focused on a specialty ripe for augmentation by artificial emotional intelligence: pregnancy health.

AI hypothesizes, shows a connection between optimistic outlook and COVID ethics

Psychological researchers have used AI to not only test a hypothesis on COVID-related behaviors but also to help come up with the hypothesis in the first place.

FDA clears AI for mobile radiology reads, patient communications

The healthcare AI startup founded by developers of the Apple Watch has been greenlit to market an AI-powered mobile application that lets radiologists interpret images and share the results with patients in real time.

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A missed opportunity? Many type 2 MI patients are never evaluated by a cardiologist

Patients who were evaluated by a cardiologist were much more likely to undergo stress testing, transthoracic echocardiography and coronary angiography.