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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Top 3 strategies of healthcare’s best performers

Thriving in the current healthcare environment is a struggle for organizations of all types and sizes, but there are a few key strategies the top performers agree are best for meeting the significant headwinds of the industry, according to a new report from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).

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Veterans, individuals with kidney disease being asked to test new app

Veterans and other individuals managing kidney disease are being asked to test a new nutrition-tracking mobile application designed to help kidney patients.

Washington State University researchers develop sensor that runs on glucose

A research team with Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, has created a biofuel-powered sensor that runs on glucose and can be used to detect, prevent and diagnose diseases.

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Abbott’s high-sensitivity troponin-I test receives CE mark

Abbott has received a CE mark for its High Sensitive Troponin-I test—a diagnostic test designed to predict heart disease even in patients without cardiac symptoms—the company announced this week.

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MA enrollment to expand, premiums to drop in 2019

Medicare Advantage premiums will decline in 2019, according to CMS, while benefits, plan choices and enrollment are expected to rise.

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Socioeconomic data contributes little to population risk assessment, study finds

Census tract-level socioeconomic data, while invariably linked to health outcomes, contributes little to risk prediction models beyond what’s already available through electronic health records (EHRs), Duke researchers report in JAMA Network Open this month.

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Boston Children's Hospital, MedStar Health earn ONC interoperability award

The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology has awarded nearly $2 million to the Boston Children’s Hospital and MedStar Health Research Institute to help advance interoperability in healthcare.

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Survey: 44% of US adults would trust AI for cancer diagnosis, treatment recommendation

More than 40 percent of Americans would trust artificial intelligence (AI) for a cancer diagnosis, according to a nationwide survey.