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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VA deploys chatbot to guide vets through the pandemic 24/7

Working with a software consultancy that operates in 14 countries, the Department of Veterans Affairs has launched an interactive digital assistant to take U.S. veterans’ questions on COVID-19 and related concerns.

AI to combine with imaging and genomics in precision medicine project

A Canadian healthcare AI company is partnering with a DNA analytics outfit in California to explore how genomics can help advance the science of precision medicine.

App detects worsening heart failure for personalized case management

Researchers have demonstrated a smartphone application that monitors known heart failure by listening to patients’ voices for 30 seconds a day.

Startup’s AI product set for wide distribution via major imaging vendor

One of the biggest imaging OEMs is offering healthcare providers using its radiography systems a third party’s AI toolset for detecting lung abnormalities.

Machine learning sees diseases obscured by info overload

Harvard researchers have demonstrated a way to cut through tangles of irrelevant information in electronic health records (EHRs) while applying machine learning to spot patterns indicative of specific disease markers.

Portable AI-enabled device brings blood testing to underserved areas

The device can also test for malaria and already has CE Mark approval as well as regulatory greenlights in India and Ghana.

Med student: Train us in AI now or watch quality suffer later

A medical student in the U.K. is cautioning proponents of AI in healthcare to beware the technology’s possible adverse effects on medical education.

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Lung ultrasound before PCI improves in-hospital management of STEMI patients

Adding lung ultrasound to a STEMI patient’s Killip classification leads to a more thorough, effective assessment, according to new findings published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging.