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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HHS aims to reduce clinician burden when using EHRs

CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have issued their strategy to reduce the burdens clinicians face when it comes to using EHRs.

 

FDA hosts 2-day workshop focused on AI, medical imaging

As AI continues to make a profound impact on the medical imaging industry, the FDA is hosting a two-day public workshop to discuss the benefits and risks of this powerful technology.

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Health insurers step up appeal of clinics

Health insurance providers are increasingly stepping into the world of in-store clinics, becoming both the payer and the provider of care.

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AI platform expected to improve medical image analysis, expand ALS research

A new international partnership is focused on using AI technology to take a closer look at the human brain and advance amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research.  

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Algorithm finds promising—and heretofore hidden—superbug-buster

After poring over the chemical compositions of more than 107 million molecules used to make all sorts of drugs, a machine learning algorithm has plucked out one unexpected candidate that may be medicine’s best hope yet against dreaded superbugs.

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Patient records breaches soared in 2019

Patient privacy was under attack last year, with more than 41 million patient records breached, according to a new report from Protenus.

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Watson rolls out toolset to streamline clinical study design

Healthcare AI giant IBM Watson Health has introduced software that can help medical researchers design clinical studies right the first time so as to minimize the need for tweaking and fine-tuning while their study is underway.

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Amazon Care goes live in Seattle

Amazon’s virtual care clinic offering for its Seattle-based employees has gone live.

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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