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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Algorithm finds promising—and heretofore hidden—superbug-buster

After poring over the chemical compositions of more than 107 million molecules used to make all sorts of drugs, a machine learning algorithm has plucked out one unexpected candidate that may be medicine’s best hope yet against dreaded superbugs.

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Patient records breaches soared in 2019

Patient privacy was under attack last year, with more than 41 million patient records breached, according to a new report from Protenus.

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Watson rolls out toolset to streamline clinical study design

Healthcare AI giant IBM Watson Health has introduced software that can help medical researchers design clinical studies right the first time so as to minimize the need for tweaking and fine-tuning while their study is underway.

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Amazon Care goes live in Seattle

Amazon’s virtual care clinic offering for its Seattle-based employees has gone live.

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Advanced AI models improve data extraction from free-text pathology reports

Researchers have developed two AI-powered tools for automatically extracting key information from free-text pathology reports. The team shared its findings in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Women dramatically underrepresented on cardiology journal editorial boards

An analysis of major cardiology journals in both the U.S. and Europe underlines the stark sex gap in cardiology, revealing that, between 1998 and 2018, there were no women editors-in-chief for U.S. general cardiology journals and only one woman editor-in-chief for a European journal.

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How AI can improve care, limit unnecessary surgeries for patients with kidney tumors

Machine learning-based CT texture analysis can help with the evaluation of solid renal masses, according to new findings published in Academic Radiology. Could this help reduce the number of patients undergoing unnecessary surgeries?

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Mayo Clinic expands access to clinical insights and digital content

Mayo Clinic is expanding its library of clinical insights by enabling other healthcare organizations to access and deliver digital content across the clinical and operational aspects of a patient care journey.