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.

AI helps auto-screen 100% of inpatients for sepsis

Researchers have used AI-powered risk prediction to accurately screen the entire inpatient population of a community hospital for sepsis, enabling early treatment of the stricken.

COVID making hospitals highly attractive hacking targets

One point of easier-than-normal entry is nonclinical employees working from home. Another is providers’ weakened state. Many are strapped for cash and, as a result, stretching resources.

Long thought to be damagingly stressful, family caregiving does no harm

Going by biomarkers of inflammation, taking care of aging or ailing loves ones is not detrimental to the caregiver’s own health and wellbeing. In fact, it may even make one healthier.   

Dermatology researchers: AI tools soon to be ‘tightly integrated into daily clinical practice’

Healthcare AI watchers would be unwise to overlook dermatology, as it is a medical specialty “at the precipice of an artificial intelligence revolution.”

Medical statistician reviewing COVID AI studies: ‘Poorly reported … horrible’

As researchers have turned to AI for battling COVID-19, raising hopes and making headlines, the shortcomings of the studies have drawn the ire of numerous statistics experts.

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A breakthrough in treating blindness: AI helps scientists grow artificial retinal tissue

Researchers have developed a new AI model that could be a game-changer in the treatment of blindness and vision loss.

COVID a cunning foe even for determined, well-prepared hospitals

It’s a painful paradox that hospitals can help COVID patients recover while helping the virus spread—and not only to non-COVID patients but also to healthcare workers, support staff and even visitors.

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Cardiologist bounces back after pandemic with help from informatics platform

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

In February and March 2020, the inevitable happened: COVID-19 came to the United States, hitting the country’s healthcare system like a 10-pound sledgehammer.