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.

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PocketHealth's Image Readers helps patients understand their radiology report findings.

Newly launched report feature provides patients with a visual aid to their imaging

The artificial intelligence-enabled feature can be integrated directly into patients’ imaging results.  

Kestra Medical Technologies

Wearable heart device company to go public, raise up to $155M

Kestra Medical Technologies, known for its wearable heart monitors and defibrillators, intends to sell 10 million common shares priced somewhere between $14 and $16 per share. 

Charalambos Antoniades, MD, the British Heart Foundation Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford, is a co-founder of the company Caristo, which has developed technology to image coronary inflammation on coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) scans to visualize a key factor of residual cardiovascular risk.

Detecting coronary inflammation on CT imaging could reshape preventive cardiology

New technology now being considered by the FDA for approval can capture coronary inflammation on CCTA images and provide risk assessments. What could this mean for the future of cardiac care? We spoke to one researcher to learn more.

Compremium has developed a noninvasive external assessment that does away with needles for the diagnosis of venous pressure conditions using AI-enabled monitoring.

Healthcare AI newsmakers: Chief AI & transformation officers, AI Rorschach testers, citizens united for responsible healthcare AI, more

Less alarm fatigue in overworked pediatric nurses means more time for imperiled pediatric patients. 

AI pain management

Machine learning vs. bodily pain: 5 points of promise and challenge

We have seen the future of pain management, and it is in automated assessments aided by AI.

Newsweek ranked the 50 best heart hospitals in the world

Know your options: What cardiologists recommend when alternative access is required for TAVR

Transfemoral TAVR is not always a viable option. In those instances, the two most effective alternatives are transcarotid access and transcaval access, according to a new SCAI expert consensus statement.

Aakriti Gupta, MD, Cedars-Sinai, explains use of cerebral embolic protection devices in TAVR

An updated look at the use of cerebral embolic protection devices during TAVR

Cardiologist Aakriti Gupta, MD, MSc, spoke to Cardiovascular Business about the latest data and trends associated with using cerebral embolic protection devices during TAVR to lower the risk of stroke.

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UnitedHealthcare sued by 17 hospitals in $145M dispute over out-of-network reimbursement

The hospitals all belong to HCA Healthcare, which claims it is required by law to care for emergency patients regardless of their medical coverage status.

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