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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Skin cancer may be diagnosable by algorithmic smartphone app

An AI-based smartphone app for detecting cancer in skin lesions has proven quite capable, achieving 95.1% sensitivity.

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AI-aided kidney care rolls into the Salt Lake State

Intermountain Healthcare has opened an AI-powered service line for patients with chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease.

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Evidence mounts for deep learning’s potential to help fight Alzheimer’s

There’s still a long way to go with both research into Alzheimer’s disease and AI tools to help detect it, but deep-learning approaches continue to show promise for classifying the condition on images of the brain.

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Cardiovascular RCTs are getting more practical—but slowly

The level of pragmatism in CV-related randomized clinical trials has only increased moderately over the past two decades, according to work published in JAMA Cardiology Sept. 1.

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Algorithms are finding hidden human connections in end-of-life care

When patients and family members discuss end-of-life matters with professional caregivers, the silences between words can be as telling as the words themselves.

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Walmart enters primary care

The world’s biggest retailer, Walmart, is taking a bigger step into the healthcare space by opening up a primary care clinic called Walmart Health located in Georgia. The news was first reported by CNBC.

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Medicare patients monitored by AI for risk factors requiring care

A health-management company in Arizona is expanding its use of AI to detect risk factors in Medicare Advantage patients by scanning doctors’ notes to automatically flag patients who need additional reimbursable care.

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Cancer overtakes heart disease as top killer in some countries

In the U.S., heart disease has been the reigning top cause of death for a number of years, but cancer is quickly becoming the top killer in some high-income and upper-middle-income countries, according to a new study published in The Lancet.