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 Delivery, Digital Transformation, Precision Medicine, Remote Monitoring and Telehealth.

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AI in the ICU (and elsewhere): Less stress, better conditions, alleviated shortages

When appropriately applied in critical care settings, AI can deliver considerable value to clinical staff, hospital management and local communities. In the process the technology may help resolve persistent staffing shortages.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Having released the latest version of Llama in December, Meta is telling the world that open-source AI is the future of AI in healthcare. 

4 ways HHS plans to help shape a national strategy for healthcare AI

HHS has thought through the ways AI can and should become an integral part of healthcare, human services and public health. Last Friday—possibly just days ahead of seating a new secretary—the agency released a detailed plan for getting there from here.

FDA has now cleared more than 1,000 AI models, including many in cardiology

Cardiology is the medical speciality with the second most FDA clearances overall. 

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Is AI adoption a marathon or a sprint? 

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Forging ahead with enterprise AI? Don’t wait to bring in your cybersecurity people

Close to half the world’s cybersecurity professionals, 45%, have zero involvement in projects within their respective organizations to develop, implement and govern AI solutions. 

Withings, a French medtech company known for its remote monitoring devices, has multiple new services on display at CES 2025.

CES 2025: Cardiologist check-ups, AI-powered smart mirrors coming to heart patients’ homes

Healthcare companies from all over the world are showing off their newest cardiovascular offerings at CES 2025 in Las Vegas.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

New Year’s Day brought the go-live for California’s new law forbidding the use of AI to deny health insurance claims. 

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These health systems have the biggest digital health portfolios

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

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Toylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles to connect

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.