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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New AI model could help brain cancer patients avoid biopsies

Glioma patients typically need a biopsy so physicians can make a treatment decision, but researchers have developed a new AI algorithm that could make such biopsies unnecessary. 

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Can AI, robotics help ID asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19?

Researchers in Israel are working to develop a new AI-powered COVID-19 test—and they think it could be especially effective at detecting individuals who carry the virus without showing any symptoms.

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Machine learning helps ward off med-induced heart trouble

Researchers have used computational modeling and a machine-learning approach to predict electrotoxicity in the heart “from the atom to the rhythm.”

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AI specialists gain CE mark approval for chest x-ray solution

According to the company, its newly approved AI model can play a role in helping hospitals triage patients with suspected COVID-19.

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Chat tool helping Intermountain screen, steer possible COVID-19 patients

Intermountain Healthcare, the sprawling 24-hospital system based in Utah, is partnering with a supplier of healthcare-specific virtual assistants to offer patients an automated COVID-19 interface on Intermountain’s homepage.

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Apple, Google combining forces over COVID-19: What are these two really up to?

Last week Apple and Google jointly announced a Bluetooth platform for tracing contacts of people testing positive with COVID-19. The tech world has been buzzing ever since.

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Ventilator dilemma: ‘Are we comfortable sacrificing this group in exchange for saving more lives?’

The heart of the matter is that more than 8,000 ventilators aren’t in hospitals to begin with. They’re in nursing homes.

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AI spots pneumonia in chest x-rays of COVID-19 patients

Researchers have developed an AI algorithm that can scan the chest x-rays of COVID-19 patients for signs of pneumonia.

Around the web

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.