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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Apple Watch’s fall detection feature saves lives

Emergency authorities found a bloody and unconscious 67-year-old Norwegian man on his bathroom floor in the nick of time. His savior was Apple Watch’s fall detection feature, which is available for users who are 65 and older.

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Google exploring EHR that can predict medical events using AI

A patent application filed by Google indicates that the company is looking to develop an electronic health records (EHR) system that uses AI to predict a patient’s future medical events.

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MIT researchers work to ‘debias’ AI

Researchers with MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab are working to develop an algorithm that can automatically “debias” data for AI models—an issue that has plagued the technology amid its growing prevalence in the medical field.

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Google parent company shopping around shoes that track weight and falls

Verily, the life sciences business of Google parent company Alphabet, has a new prototype for shoes enabled with sensors that can help track weight, falls and movement, according to CNBC.

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CVS pledges $15M to AHA initiative, offers free heart screenings through February

CVS Health announced Feb. 4 it will be offering free “Know Your Numbers” heart health screenings every Thursday this month—including Valentine’s Day—in an effort to boost CVD prevention across the country.

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Telemedicine consults spiked during polar vortex

Telemedicine rates rose when temperatures plummeted during the polar vortex in late January, according to a report by WOOD-TV, local NBC affiliate in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Nonprofit health system creates population health management company

The nation’s third-largest nonprofit health system, Providence St. Joseph Health, has created a for-profit population health management company called Ayin Health Solutions.

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AI-based prehab shortens hospital stays, lowers healthcare costs

An AI-based platform that prepares patients for total joint replacement surgery was associated with shorter hospital stays, according to a study published in the Annals of Translational Medicine.