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 tool guides management of elevated blood sugar during surgery

Patients whose blood glucose levels spike during surgery are at heightened risk for poor overall outcomes. A new AI tool has proven effective at predicting, prior to surgery, which patients will have the problem while under the knife.

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Duke, Cerner partner to launch automated health network

Cerner Corporation has partnered with the Duke Clinical Research Institute to pilot the Cerner Learning Health Network, an evolving database that aims to automate data collection for rapid access to contemporary medical information.

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Conversational AI helper goes live for healthcare consumers in Colorado

Colorado’s UCHealth system has extended the reach of “Livi,” an AI-powered virtual assistant it introduced early this year, from its website to patients’ smart speakers.

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Pittsburgh Alliance, Amazon drive AI product development in Steel City

A large health data-sharing consortium based in Pittsburgh is bringing in Amazon Web Services to help drive research and product development around machine learning and cloud computing in numerous areas of healthcare.

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32M patient records have been breached in first half of 2019

In the first six months of 2019, 32 million patient records have been breached in data security events, compared to roughly 15 million in all of 2018.

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CVS expands drug delivery across nation

CVS Pharmacy is expanding its delivery service, CarePass, nationwide at participating pharmacy locations, the company announced.

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Elderly missing persons getting found by AI in China

China’s use of facial recognition software to encourage good citizenship has drawn international criticism, but now the country is turning to the technology for help with a worthy healthcare cause: finding elderly people with dementia who’ve lost their way.

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How healthcare providers are managing their digital reputations

Nearly half of healthcare providers aren’t sure how to manage their reputation online, but more than 75% are worried about receiving negative reviews from patients, according to a recent survey.