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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 Delivery, Digital Transformation, Precision Medicine, Remote Monitoring and Telehealth.

American Heart Association program leads to substantial improvements in stroke care
Cardiologist Gregg Fonarow, MD, reviewed decades of data and discussed the long-term impact of the AHA's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke program.
Healthcare AI newswatch: Apple’s AI Doctor, AI’s expectant medical specialties, AI-watching teens, more
Apple’s AI Doctor had better be one good virtual physician.
5 ways AI can help a hospital’s discharge department
Among the myriad processes to which AI could be meaningfully applied in healthcare, perhaps few are more easily overlooked than discharging patients from the hospital.
FDA announces new recall of Medtronic surgical devices over safety concerns
The agency warned that any unused devices should be removed from the market and returned to the manufacturer.
‘A practice-changing trial’: Semaglutide linked to key benefits for PAD patients with diabetes
Patients who present with type 2 diabetes and PAD often face substantial mobility issues. According to new data presented at ACC.25, however, treatment with semaglutide could represent a major step forward for this high-risk population.

Just 38% of participants in cardiovascular clinical trials are women

Women—especially those in their early-to-mid-sixties and those with a heart failure diagnosis—continue to be underrepresented in cardiovascular clinical trials, according to a study that found just over 38% of all CV trial enrollees between 2010 and 2017 were female.

Patients often struggle when describing their own coughs to doctors—but AI could help

A machine learning-powered smartphone application could help patients with a chronic cough document their symptoms over an extended period of time, according to new findings published in Digital Biomarkers.

AI-based breast cancer screening could cut costs, save patients from radiation exposure

Researchers have developed a cost-effective technique for breast cancer screening that does not require radiation exposure.

How AI, ultrasound imaging could stop bedwetting

Nocturnal enuresis (NE), or bedwetting, affects up to 20% of 5-year-old children and 5% of 10-year-old children.

The ‘narrow scope’ of HIPAA: Protecting patients in an age of digital growth

Digital healthcare tools and apps can be more beneficial than risky if they’re used responsibly, according to a perspective published in Circulation on Feb. 24.

Wearable AI sensor predicts changes in heart failure patients, could limit readmissions

An AI-powered wearable sensor can detect changes in heart failure patients before an actual crisis occurs, according to new findings published in Circulation: Heart Failure.

27M people affected by health data breaches in 2019

More than 27 million people were affected by breaches of private health information (PHI) in 2019, according to a new report from Bitglass.

HHS aims to reduce clinician burden when using EHRs

CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have issued their strategy to reduce the burdens clinicians face when it comes to using EHRs.

Patient Care

American Heart Association program leads to substantial improvements in stroke care

Healthcare AI newswatch: Apple’s AI Doctor, AI’s expectant medical specialties, AI-watching teens, more

5 ways AI can help a hospital’s discharge department

FDA announces new recall of Medtronic surgical devices over safety concerns

‘A practice-changing trial’: Semaglutide linked to key benefits for PAD patients with diabetes