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 a hot topic for radiology researchers in 2019

For RSNA’s Radiology journal, AI was one of the most popular topics of 2019.

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Many cardiologists support deprescription as a means to reduce polypharmacy

Deprescribing—or working with patients to reduce and optimize their medication load—could be fundamental to healthcare’s push toward more patient-centered care, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

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Zebra Medical Vision’s AI solutions to be available through Nuance marketplace

Zebra Medical Vision has announced that its bundle of AI-focused solutions will be available through the Nuance AI marketplace.

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UnitedHealthcare partners with Walgreens to open in-store Medicare service centers

UnitedHealthcare, the nation’s largest health insurance provider, has teamed up with Walgreens to provide Medicare services centers within 14 Walgreens stores across five metropolitan areas.

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Physicians undergo less preventive testing than the public

A study out of Ontario, Canada, has found that physicians undergo less guideline-recommended preventive testing for conditions like hyperlipidemia and diabetes, yet they fare better than members of the public when it comes to long-term health outcomes.

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AHA, Duke partner to conduct pragmatic clinical trials in cardiology

The Amerian Heart Association and the Duke Clinical Research Institute have formed a strategic alliance devoted to designing and conducting pragmatic randomized clinical trials in the cardiovascular space.

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‘Accurate, robust’ AI detects lung nodules in chest x-rays

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be trained to detect lung nodules on chest x-rays, according to a new study published in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.

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ACR DSI shares list of FDA-cleared AI algorithms for medical imaging

The American College of Radiology (ACR) Data Science Institute (DSI) has created a new resource for radiology researchers: a full list of FDA-cleared AI algorithms related to medical imaging.