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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Rural facilities improve antibiotic stewardship with videoconferencing teams

Rural healthcare providers and facilities face numerous geographic obstacles to providing adequate care. Researchers showed how telehealth videoconferencing can connect remotely located VA medical centers with infectious disease experts to improve antibiotic stewardship.

Videoconference improves antibiotic stewardship at rural VA facilities

Rural healthcare providers and facilities face numerous geographic obstacles to providing adequate care. Researchers showed how telehealth videoconferencing can connect remotely located VA medical centers with infectious disease experts to improve antibiotic stewardship.

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Once valued at $9B, Theranos to close

Theranos, the Silicon Valley-based blood-testing startup that was once valued at $9 billion, is dissolving.

College students to study effects of telehealth, AI on the elderly

A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) program and senior living community are partnering to research the effects of telehealth and artificial intelligence (AI) platforms on seniors in assisted living and memory care communities.

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Does hospital consolidation raise Medicare prices? Lawmakers want to know

As hospital entities continue to grow larger through mergers and acquisitions, lawmakers want to know what impact such consolidation has on the Medicare program and beneficiaries.

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Facial recognition app uses AI to help ID genetic disorders

A mobile application can help healthcare professionals make genetic evaluations by using a snapshot of a person’s face, artificial intelligence and insights from real patients and genetics experts.

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Development, study of organoids sparks call for ethics debate

According to a report by the Washington Post, the rapid progress with cerebral organoids has prompted calls for an ethics debate surrounding the research behind organoids and the possibility of them eventually having a consciousness.

Former cardiac specialist sues OHSU for sex discrimination

A cardiologist is suing Oregon Health and Science University for “forcing” her out of a job last year after she was reportedly subjected to consistent racial and sexual discrimination, the Oregonian has reported.