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.

Deep learning to improve immunotherapies for cancer, other diseases

Johns Hopkins researchers have used deep neural networks to draw important insights—prescriptive as well as descriptive—into adaptive immunity from massive stores of T-cell receptor sequencing data.

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How to make virtual healthcare personal

In healthcare, it is likely that an increased demand for telehealth will remain, meaning providers will need to continue ramping up their capabilities and personalizing this care.

 

Individuals with MS well served by monitoring with ML

Noting that multiple sclerosis now affects more people between 50 and 60 than any other age group, researchers have shown how machine-learning gait analysis can help personalize therapy regimens.

COVID-19 coronavirus

Growing library of literature on COVID-focused AI found wanting for usefulness

Academic researchers in the U.K. have completed a systematic review of 62 representative studies on the use of AI for COVID-19 diagnostics and prognostics on X-rays and CT scans. Their findings may strike some as a setback.  

Deep learning detects, annotates epileptic seizures on scant EEG data

Researchers have demonstrated that deep learning models can help neurologists interpret epileptic episodes during and between seizures from relatively few scalp electroencephalography (EEG) readings.

AI guides therapeutic decisions for dialysis patients

Researchers have developed an AI-based system that can direct the administering of iron and other red-blood-cell stimulators nearly as well as experienced physicians.

Amazon expands telehealth services beyond employees

Amazon is launching its healthcare business, Amazon Care, across the U.S., expanding its telehealth services beyond its own employees.

Racial, ethnic disparities ranked No. 1 patient-safety issue of the year

Preparedness for pandemic response is only the third most pressing patient-safety concern in 2021, according to the ECRI Institute.

Around the web

With generative AI coming into its own, AI regulators must avoid relying too much on principles of risk management—and not enough on those of uncertainty management.

Cardiovascular devices are more likely to be in a Class I recall than any other device type. The FDA's approval process appears to be at least partially responsible, though the agency is working to make some serious changes. We spoke to a researcher who has been tracking these data for years to learn more. 

Updated compensation data includes good news for multiple subspecialties. The new report also examines private equity's impact on employment models and how much male cardiologists earn compared to females.

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