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.

Sleep apnea trackable by smartphone with AI assistance

The novel AI-aided app can run on both Apple and Android operating systems and only needs to be placed near the would-be sleeper—a familiar nightstand, shelf or end table will do—at bedtime.

AI to uncover COVID’s likely course in patients with already-troubled lungs

Researchers at West Virginia University are well placed to tap AI for teasing out the role of existing respiratory concerns in the progression of COVID-19.

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Microsoft partners with Nuance on ‘ambient clinical intelligence’ for telehealth

Providers seeing patients remotely via Microsoft Teams make up the target market for a Nuance voice-recognition offering that automatically takes clinical notes during virtual visits and renders them useful immediately afterward.

Ransom paid to cybercriminal on behalf of Inova Health, others

Five-hospital Inova Health System based in Falls Church, Virginia, was among the clients of Blackbaud, a fundraising service supplier, affected by a ransomware attack against Blackbaud in May.

Healthcare AI researchers have new guidance for speeding lab-to-clinic turnaround

A multinational group of scholars has put together two fresh sets of guidelines for researchers testing AI applications in clinical trials.

COVID up first as social data science gets a new center with an assist from Facebook

The emerging academic discipline of social data science, which leverages Big Data to integrate social science with computer science, has a new base of operations in the Mid-Atlantic region.  

AI identifies suicidal individuals using basic health data

Researchers have demonstrated the use of machine learning to predict suicides in a general population, achieving good accuracy by including data from routine health checkups.

Successful drug-shopping company developing telehealth markets, planning $100M IPO

A popular and fast-growing consumer healthcare company rooted in technology intends to go public with an initial offering of $100 million in shares.

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The tirzepatide shortage that first began in 2022 has been resolved. Drug companies distributing compounded versions of the popular drug now have two to three more months to distribute their remaining supply.

The 24 members of the House Task Force on AI—12 reps from each party—have posted a 253-page report detailing their bipartisan vision for encouraging innovation while minimizing risks. 

Merck sent Hansoh Pharma, a Chinese biopharmaceutical company, an upfront payment of $112 million to license a new investigational GLP-1 receptor agonist. There could be many more payments to come if certain milestones are met.