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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Civica Rx partners with Vizient to address drug shortages

A not-for-profit drug company startup founded by health foundations and providers, Civica Rx, has teamed up with analytics and advisory company Vizient to address drug shortages.

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Jane Freedman named new editor of Circulation Research

Massachusetts-based researcher Jane E. Freedman, MD, was named this week as the new editor of Circulation Research, one of the American Heart Association’s 12 scientific journals.

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Ambitious academic AI institution opens in Paris

A European university with deep historic roots is now home to an AI research center whose areas of concentration include healthcare.

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The best hospitals for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery in the US

The U.S. News and World Report on June 18 released its 2019-2020 rankings for the country’s best children’s hospitals, topped by Boston Children’s Hospital for overall best care and Texas Children’s Hospital for the best cardiac care.

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Developer of AI app for people with digestive disorders raises $7M

A Berlin-based startup whose mobile health app uses AI to help people manage chronic digestive problems has raised $7 million in Series A funding. The company intends to spend the bulk of the money getting the app in the hands of gastrointestinal patients in the U.S.

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Parkinson’s disease remotely monitorable with machine learning

Researchers have developed an algorithm to help assess the response of Parkinson’s patients to medication while clinicians are at work and the patients are typing on personal computers in their homes.

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FDA clears CV planning software suite from Materialise

Global 3D printing company Materialise on June 13 announced its Mimics Enlight cardiovascular planning software suite received FDA clearance and will soon be rolled out to clinicians.

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Depression detectable early with AI analysis of social-media language

Researchers have demonstrated two machine learning techniques that, when combined to analyze social-media posts, can boost early detection of clinical depression by 10% over the current state of the art.