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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Researchers use wearable fitness trackers to monitor sleep, CVD risk

A new two-year study is focused on the potential of using commercially available fitness trackers to identify patients who may face an increased risk of CVD.

Most parents support the use of AI in their child's medical care

Many also believe AI may be even more accurate than physicians when it comes to detecting imaging abnormalities.

Medical journal bucks RFK, refuses to retract Danish vaccine study

A study analyzing data on 1.2 million children over two decades found no evidence that aluminum ingredients in vaccines cause autism or autoimmune disorders. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the research “deceitful propaganda.”

Artists rendering of the Artemis I mission Orion space capsule with a cut away showing the two radiation detecting human phantoms. NASA/Lockheed Martin/DLR image

Google, NASA working to deploy AI medical assistant on space missions

A new natural language processing tool from Google is being trained on spaceflight scenarios to aid medical personnel on missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.

Helene damage to bridge Baxter North Cove facility in North Carolina.

FDA confirms end to IV saline shortage caused by Hurricane Helene

Nearly 11 months after the hurricane flooded a Baxter manufacturing facility near Asheville, North Carolina, the resulting nationwide shortage of saline solution bags is officially over.

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Healthcare AI today: AMA drills into Trump plan, Illinois forbids AI talk therapy, Mayo Clinic speeds ahead (again)

The AMA doesn’t refute much of the Trump AI Action Plan so much as amplify some of its talking points. One exception is the plan’s open disdain for ‘woke’ AI.

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‘Notable’ proportion of thyroid ultrasounds are unnecessary, leading to potential overdiagnoses

Experts are suggesting three solutions to address low-value thyroid imaging orders, including clinical decision support and education. 

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4 ways clinical AI can complement—rather than compete with—patient-centered care

If humanistic medicine is to endure the slow-motion AI tsunami flooding the healthcare landscape, humans will have to see those two forces—humanistic medicine and healthcare AI—not as oppositional to each other but as potentially synergistic.