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 can be health equity’s best friend—or one of its worst frenemies

AI can hurt or help the cause of advancing equality of resources, services and outcomes in healthcare. If it’s to do more helping than hurting, the technology must permeate primary care—and do so with certain goals and guidelines. 

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Price of care rose 15% after independent practice buyouts, study finds

A new analysis from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that reduced competition among physicians has a similar impact on market dynamics as large-scale health system mergers, despite the former not receiving regulatory attention.

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Medtronic receives key approvals for automated insulin pump

The company's automated insulin pump can now be used to treat more patients thanks to an expanded CE mark approval. Could updates from the FDA be next?

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Wearable tech company pushes back after warning from FDA

The FDA thinks 24/7 fitness trackers from Boston-based Whoop should be regulated like medical devices. Whoop disagrees, however, and neither side appears to be changing its mind. 

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CT workflows improve with help of deep learning 3D camera for patient positioning

These specialized, AI-powered cameras can automate and optimize patient positioning based on their body habitus and placement on the table.

Update: New details emerge about fatal MRI accident in Long Island

The man's wife says he was accompanying her for an MRI of her knee when the tragedy occurred.

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Tumor eradication in mice prompts trials for human cancer vaccine

Researchers at the University of Florida College of Medicine say mRNA technology could "educate" the immune system to identify and attack cancer anywhere in the body. A promising proof-of-concept study using mice was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

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DOJ accuses doctor of illegally prescribing opiates in exchange for sex

Ritesh Kalra, MD, allegedly wrote 31,000 opioid prescriptions between 2019 and 2025, many of which were illegitimate. He is accused of inappropriately touching patients in exchange for oxycodone scripts as part of a five-count criminal indictment.