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

Cardiologists use endovascular device for brain aneurysms to treat high-risk heart patients
A multidisciplinary research team has found a new use for a reliable medical device. Multiple heart patients have already benefited for the group’s outside-the-box thinking.
When heart patients can’t wait: Urgent TAVR with self-expanding vs. balloon-expandable valves
The high-risk patients who require urgent or emergent TAVR are often excluded from major clinical trials. To learn more about this population, researchers explored data from nearly 600 patients treated at high-volume facilities.
More than 80% of clinicians have had to correct AI-supplied misinformation during patient visits: New patient + provider survey
Meanwhile members of Gen Z are twice as likely as other generations to get sneaky about their use of medical AI.
CMS leaves the ’80s behind with shift away from snail mail correspondence, fax machines
In a Final Rule revealed last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services outlined its plan to exchange medical records, diagnostic images and clinical notes electronically using secure protocols. Once the rule is published in the Federal Register, any HIPAA-covered entity that interacts with Medicare will have two years to follow CMS into the modern age.
Drugmaker’s stock tumbles 20% after FDA issues formal warning to executives
ImmunityBio, the developer of bladder cancer treatment Anktiva, is accused by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of disseminating “false or misleading information” about the drug's efficacy in an advertisement and podcast. The FDA said it’s not the first time it's sent a warning letter to the company’s executives over allegedly inaccurate claims.

Anders Gilberg, senior vice president, government affairs at Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), explains numerous changes in federal healthcare policy since the start of 2026, including extending telehealth, rural health payments, possible solutions to prior authorization burden in Medicare Advantage.

MGMA outlines healthcare policy progress in Congress for 2026

The Medical Group Management Association explains some positive federal healthcare policy movement since the start of 2026, including extending telehealth and rural health payments, and possible solutions to the prior authorization burden in Medicare Advantage.

Nearly half of all surgeons have considered leaving the profession due to burnout

Burnout remains one of the biggest issues in modern healthcare. More than 1,500 surgeons, including many from the field of cardiac surgery, provided feedback for a new report on that very topic.

Newsweek ranked the 50 best heart hospitals in the world

Moderate valve oversizing during TAVR boosts survival—too much may be less beneficial

Oversizing transcatheter heart valves can improve TAVR outcomes. There is still a reason to be cautious, however, especially when patients are receiving a balloon-expandable valve.

Blood filtration company fined $5.7M, executive charged, for covering up patient deaths

The U.S. Department of Justice said ExThera cooperated with the investigation into a failure to file adverse event notices with the Food and Drug Administration after two cancer patients who used its blood filtration systems in Antigua died shortly after returning home. The California-based company’s former chief regulatory officer has agreed to plead guilty and could serve prison time.

Ligence Heart is a recently FDA cleared AI that fully automates analyses, measurements and reporting for transthoracic echo.

Cardiology now has more than 200 FDA-cleared AI algorithms

Cardiology is No. 2 behind radiology when it comes to FDA-cleared AI algorithms. Neurology, meanwhile, is a distant No. 3.

CVS Health taps Google Cloud for new AI patient engagement platform

Dubbed Health100, the application is being launched as a subsidiary of CVS Health, utilizing Google’s cloud infrastructure data access and security. Powered by AI, Health100 is said to be a full assistant to help patients find providers, services and prescriptions, with the aim being to reduce out-of-pocket spending.

4 points about healthcare AI that notable experts are emphasizing in the public square

The brain is the single most complex internal system in the body. That’s a no-brainer. But can you name the runner-up? (Bonus points for guessing what this has to do with healthcare AI.)

Financial aid nonprofits merge to do more for patients feeling pinched by medical bills on top of overall inflation

Two medical charities that last year gave $640 million to 200,000 struggling Americans are combining forces so they can expand their collective wherewithal.

Patient Care

Cardiologists use endovascular device for brain aneurysms to treat high-risk heart patients

When heart patients can’t wait: Urgent TAVR with self-expanding vs. balloon-expandable valves

More than 80% of clinicians have had to correct AI-supplied misinformation during patient visits: New patient + provider survey

CMS leaves the ’80s behind with shift away from snail mail correspondence, fax machines

Drugmaker’s stock tumbles 20% after FDA issues formal warning to executives