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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Meet the 10 best hospitals in the world

North America has bragging rights to the five best hospitals in the world, although institutions specifically in the United States make up only nine of the top 25.

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Healthcare enrollment jumps in first two weeks of special period

More than 206,000 consumers enrolled in a healthcare plan during the Covid-19 special enrollment period (SEP), according to new data reported by Health Affairs.

 

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Cardiologist pleads guilty after police find evidence he discussed engaging in sexual acts with children

Illegal photos were also found on the cardiologist's phone after police officers raided his home. 

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TAVR outperforms surgery for low-risk patients after 2 years—but the gap may be shrinking

After two years, TAVR was still linked to a reduction in the study’s primary endpoint, but it was also associated with a greater risk of valve thrombosis.

AI finds pre-diabetes using only age, waist size—and Darwinism

Researchers in Italy have demonstrated a no-cost, AI-based technique for detecting the presence of previously undiagnosed abnormalities in blood sugar stability.

AI picks out blood biomarkers for autism

If verified in additional trials, the advance will facilitate care planning much earlier than the current average age of diagnosis, 4 years old.

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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.