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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Is your hospital helping ‘decarbonize’ the planet? Here’s a chance to prove it

Hospitals will soon have an opportunity to get their climate-conservation efforts formally recognized by U.S. healthcare’s largest body for setting standards and awarding accreditations.

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Telehealth helps health system manage dramatic rise in patient referrals

As wave after wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit one Pennsylvania health system, it responded by investing heavily in telehealth technology. 

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Healthcare systems vs. private equity: If you can’t beat them, join them?

Physician groups mulling buyout offers from private equity firms often simultaneously entertain alignment opportunities with healthcare systems, including not-for-profits. For this reason, hospitals do well to stay competitive for finite clinical talent.

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Provider execs are feeling pushed by AI buzz—and starting to do something about it

Almost 80% of provider organizations spent more on IT systems and software this year than last, yet only 6% have a plan in hand to incorporate generative AI into their digital ecosystem.

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The telehealth paradox—and where the ‘revolution’ must go from here

Three business professors believe the post-COVID “telehealth revolution” could work against its own implied promise to broaden care access.

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Healthcare pay seems to have risen and ‘reset’

Despite slowing growth in year-over-year average hourly outlays, payrolls at U.S. hospitals and outpatient clinics may have plateaued at permanently elevated levels.

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Sparks fly as genomic medicine gets better acquainted with AI

AI is accelerating genomic medicine’s advance into the promised land of personalized, predictive and preventive care.

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AI launches Nvidia’s earnings toward the stratosphere—and investors toward their calculators

Whichever AI segment you follow most closely, be it healthcare or any other, you had to pause to absorb this week’s financial report from Nvidia.

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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.

When drugs are on the FDA’s shortage list, outsourcing facilities can produce their own compounded versions. When the FDA removed tirzepatide from that list with no warning, it created a considerable amount of chaos both behind the scenes and in pharmacies all over the country. 

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