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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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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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Radiology practices should consider screening for this concern to boost mammography compliance rates

Research has proven that certain social determinants of health—such as housing instability, costs and insurance—can impact adherence. What about food insecurity? 

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5 questions to guide the AI voyage from skepticism to maturity across the enterprise

Less than a third of companies employing tech-equipped knowledge workers have a formal AI strategy in place. And “dangerous divides” separate such workers from the leaders to whom they ultimately report.

Moon Surgical gets FDA approval for mission launch of surgery robot

The Maestro robot aids surgeons by holding tools and providing real-time analysis of a surgery.

Curiosity about interventional radiology is growing, but quality information for patients is lacking online

Since interventional radiology is a fairly new specialty, this information could be critical to its continued growth.

FDA announces recall of Medtronic brain surgery support systems

Medtronic has issued a recall affecting several versions of its StealthStation S8 due to a software error that puts patients at risk of serious injury or death.

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Engineers team with cardiologist to rethink heart pump assessments

The group’s work is focused on how signal processing technologies and machine learning can track the health of VADs and the patients who need them. 

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Why practices might want to think twice before using ChatGPT to create patient education materials

"The potential for disseminating inaccurate information and the occurrence of 'hallucinations'—responses that are generated without grounding in factual data—are significant concerns,” authors of a new analysis warn.