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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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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Epic and Microsoft join forces to tackle some of healthcare’s biggest AI challenges

The two companies continue to expand their partnership, this time looking to deploy generative AI to improve care delivery.

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Should masks still be required at hospitals? Physicians push for a nuanced approach in face of uncertainty

A team of physicians examined the question of continued masking, urging healthcare leaders to work together in a new commentary in Annals of Internal Medicine.

‘Gray market’ vendors hike up prices during drug shortages, leaving hospitals in a bind

Hospital executives find themselves in a challenging position—pay big bucks for hard-to-find medications or risk letting their patients down. 

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GPT-4, a new upgrade from the team behind ChatGPT, can help doctors with difficult diagnoses

The new and improved AI-based language model outperformed human clinicians in a new study published in JAMA Network Open.

Around the web

Compensation for heart specialists continues to climb. What does this say about cardiology as a whole? Could private equity's rising influence bring about change? We spoke to MedAxiom CEO Jerry Blackwell, MD, MBA, a veteran cardiologist himself, to learn more.

The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals. 

As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”