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.

Advanced imaging prompts treatment changes for nearly half of high-grade glioma patients

New research calls for greater utilization of advanced imaging in post-treatment protocols for patients with high-grade glioma.

Alabama security breach exposes personal information of cardiologists, heart patients

Both patients and physicians were impacted by the incident, with outside forces gaining access to everything from names and social security numbers to banking information. 

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Woman succumbs to injuries sustained in radiology suite explosion

Initial police reports indicate that an electrical short circuit started the fire, leading to the explosion of an oxygen cylinder.

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Cardiologists perform world’s first valve-in-valve caval valve procedure in heart transplant patient

A care team in Germany has completed what may be the first structural heart procedure of its kind on a high-risk patient. It started as a straightforward heterotopic caval valve implantation, but then paravalvular leak resulted in a change of plans. 

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

The FDA has approved 107 AI-equipped medical devices so far this year.

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Sustainable AI: 5 ways healthcare can do its part

Did you know healthcare is responsible for 4.4% of global greenhouse gas emissions? 

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Clinical decision support significantly reduces volume of CT pulmonary angiogram requests

That’s according to a new analysis from Boston-based researchers, published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology

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UnitedHealth launches ‘gold card' to ease prior authorization burden

There is no application process, eligible physicians are automatically approved. In order to earn “gold card status” a practice must have a prior authorization approval rate of 92% or higher for at least the last two years.