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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Surgical AI raises ethical questions

If an AI-brained surgical robot refuses to do its job at a critical moment in the OR, who is responsible for stepping in?

Humana partners with Heal to reach patients where they live

Humana is sinking $100 million into a primary care startup to send doctors into patients’ homes via 1-touch telemed or old-school housecalls.

3 ways hospitals can cope with costly, dangerous supply shortages

Before COVID hit, the U.S. was importing around a third of its PPE from China. Then that most populous of all countries moved to protect its own people, keeping what it used to ship.

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Prostate algorithm may be ready for routine clinical practice

Researchers have demonstrated the use of an AI tool that can accurately identify or rule out prostate cancer on digitized pathology slides from core needle biopsies.

Another FDA green light for Zebra

The FDA has OK’d the sixth medical AI application developed by Israel-based Zebra Medical Vision. The latest iteration helps breast-specialized radiologists by flagging questionable lesions appearing in 2D mammograms.

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AI detects conflicts of interest in medical journals, spots unexpected trend

Medical journals accepting reprint fees are much more likely to publish articles written by authors who received industry payments.

Pandemic may give AI a chance to pass its long audition

The COVID crisis could close the gap between what healthcare AI can do in clinical research settings and how it can contribute to actual patient care.

Unencrypted laptop costs healthcare system $1M+ in fines

The largest health system in the smallest state has agreed to pay $1,040,000 to HHS’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

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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