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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AI to help the sleep-deprived catch more Zzs

People who struggle to get a good night’s sleep and seek medical help for the problem are producing mega data on things like eye movement, breathing, brain activity and restless legs. Which is to say sleep medicine is as ripe as any field in healthcare for help from AI.

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Teenager wins $75K for machine learning spinal surgery project

A Colorado teenager has won $75,000 for his machine learning and computer vision project that helps orthopedic surgeons improve the accuracy of screw placement during spinal surgery.

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Sepsis found to fit into 4 subtypes—and each may be uniquely treatable

Contrary to common understanding, sepsis is not a one-size-afflicts-all condition. It’s a set of many, and each can be placed into one of four key subcategories—i.e., phenotypes—such that, going forward, stricken patients could receive tailored treatments.

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Myocardial injury commonly miscoded as type 2 MI

Researchers say such misnomers could have major policy implications, especially in an increasingly value-based landscape.

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NLP identifies cancer patients suffering in silence from social isolation

A natural language processing algorithm has achieved 90% precision in automatically spotting signs of social isolation in cancer patients by “reading” clinical notes in a hospital’s electronic health record.

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Majority of healthcare devices will be vulnerable to cyberattack

As healthcare operators continually rely on medical devices in workflows, unsupported devices are likely to become more vulnerable to cyberattacks.

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Mental-health professionals urged to step up human oversight of ‘robot therapists’

Academic and popular writings on the use of “embodied” AI in mental healthcare are piling up fast. But where’s the guidance for psychiatrists, psychotherapists and clinical social workers looking to use robots, avatars and chatbots with real patients?

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AI could soon diagnose disease without office visit

Instead of Googling symptoms to when feeling an ailment and landing on an incorrect diagnosis, AI could soon provide accurate diagnosis without needing to go to a doctor’s office.