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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Is a COVID showdown ahead between Google–Apple and governments?

Governments around the world have their own COVID contact-tracing apps already up and running—and several U.S. states have indicated they like their own solutions just fine.

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AI helps radiologists distinguish COVID-19 from conventional pneumonia

A new AI model can help radiologists distinguish COVID-19 from non-COVID 19 pneumonia when reading chest CT examinations.

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New blockchain system from IBM eyes COVID-19 supply shortages

IBM has launched a blockchain-based network for healthcare organizations and government agencies looking to quickly find and hire alternative supply-chain sources during the public-health crisis set off by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Researchers using AI to track cardiac health of coronavirus patients given hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin

Cardiologs has announced the beginning of a new clinical trial that will involve monitoring the cardiac health of COVID-19 patients being treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.

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Healthcare AI a ‘potent tool’ in the global pandemic project

For champions of AI in healthcare, the COVID-19 crisis affords an unignorable opportunity to trumpet the technology’s current contributions while directing attention to its potential for helping fight public-health crises to come.

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New AI model could help brain cancer patients avoid biopsies

Glioma patients typically need a biopsy so physicians can make a treatment decision, but researchers have developed a new AI algorithm that could make such biopsies unnecessary. 

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Can AI, robotics help ID asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19?

Researchers in Israel are working to develop a new AI-powered COVID-19 test—and they think it could be especially effective at detecting individuals who carry the virus without showing any symptoms.

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Machine learning helps ward off med-induced heart trouble

Researchers have used computational modeling and a machine-learning approach to predict electrotoxicity in the heart “from the atom to the rhythm.”