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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$20M to help machine learning map the immune system

AI startup Immunai has announced it’s working to map the entire human immune system with $20 million in seed funding to push the project along.

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AI called the ‘perfect tool’ to flag signs of serious trouble ahead for new COVID patients

An experimental set of algorithms has achieved accuracy of 70% to 80% at predicting which of 53 COVID-positive patients at two hospitals in China would get the sickest.

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6 hurdles primary care must clear to begin leveraging AI

Despite the inroads AI has made into many medical specialties, the technology has failed to find a foothold in primary care. Why is that?

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Digital health a hub as HHS makes $5M available to COVID researchers

How has digital health contributed to the fight against COVID-19? What kinds of outcomes has it produced? What have been some unintended consequences of its deployment?

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New consortium seeks the ‘sweet spot of AI’ in the fight against COVID

Fresh off an investment infusion of $25 million, a tech startup has launched an ambitious virtual consortium to seek “breakthrough medical discoveries and actionable findings” for the global battle against COVID-19. 

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Federated machine learning to take on brain-tumor diagnosis

The University of Pennsylvania is teaming with Intel to lead a federation of more than two dozen medical and research centers on an AI system for identifying brain tumors.

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Algorithmic model almost 80% accurate at diagnosing COVID in app users

Researchers in the U.K. and U.S. have developed an automatic prediction model that can tell if someone is infected with COVID-19 based on symptoms alone.

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Mayo Clinic partnering with UK tech company on COVID’s cardiac impact

The aim of the collaboration is to map out cardiac irregularities caused by the virus.

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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