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.

AI quickly sniffs out COVID in virtual-visit notes

It was late April when the CDC added impaired taste and/or smell to its list of COVID-19 symptoms. Thanks to AI and natural language processing (NLP), researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina had beaten the federal agency to the punch.

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Tele-echocardiography earns high marks as a heart failure treatment

Telemedicine is gaining popularity all over the world, but it makes more sense for some specialties than others.

Reality-checking 3 assumptions about healthcare AI

AI enthusiasts have varying aims and incentives for pushing the technology into healthcare, but many parrot a common set of justifications. Do any of these sound familiar?

AI, virtual reality combine to fine-tune drug compounds for fighting COVID-19

Researchers have demonstrated a way to visually explore small-molecule inhibitors that, according to algorithmic suggestions, show potential for targeting COVID-19’s main proteins.

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Mixed results for healthcare providers pitting AI against COVID

Healthcare AI startups are asserting AI’s fitness for the fight against COVID-19. How’s that working from the perspective of healthcare providers?

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Surge in telehealth shows AI’s potential for keeping patients on track

After seeing telehealth visits skyrocket 3,700% in April over March—most of them COVID-related—UPMC is touting its use of AI to help patients retain and apply doctors’ guidance offered during virtual visits.

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World War II veteran, influential cardiologist dies from coronavirus complications

L. Theodore Lawrence Jr., MD, who fought in World War II and went on to treat veterans as a cardiologist, died May 5 due to COVID-19 complications.

 

CMS finalizes expansion of telehealth benefits in MA plans, Part D policies

CMS has finalized a rule to implement a series of proposals issued earlier this year impacting Medicare Advantage plans and Medicare Part D plan sponsors. The rules were rushed into effect to get them out before the contract year 2021 bid deadline in June.