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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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.

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Advanced AI models improve data extraction from free-text pathology reports

Researchers have developed two AI-powered tools for automatically extracting key information from free-text pathology reports. The team shared its findings in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

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How AI can improve care, limit unnecessary surgeries for patients with kidney tumors

Machine learning-based CT texture analysis can help with the evaluation of solid renal masses, according to new findings published in Academic Radiology. Could this help reduce the number of patients undergoing unnecessary surgeries?

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Mayo Clinic expands access to clinical insights and digital content

Mayo Clinic is expanding its library of clinical insights by enabling other healthcare organizations to access and deliver digital content across the clinical and operational aspects of a patient care journey.

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The rise of AI is approaching—have we really thought this through?

AI technology could replace countless jobs in the not-so-distant future, making an impact on workforces all over the world. According to a new analysis published in Information and Organization, researchers and policymakers alike should pay especially close attention to this development and get involved now—before it’s too late.

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Inconsistent AI: Deep learning models for breast cancer fail to deliver after closer inspection

Numerous deep learning models can detect and classify imaging findings with a performance that rivals human radiologists. However, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, many of these AI models aren’t nearly as impressive when applied to external data sets.

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.