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.

Medical educators: Appreciate AI’s limitations as well as its potential

Concepts from the art and science of deep learning for medical practice can inform those employed in the art and science of medical education.

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Does AI mean the end for breast radiologists?

Someone had to come right out and ask. Six researchers representing four medical specialties have done so, weighing the odds by reviewing a representative sample of the literature.

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‘The New Normal’ AI toolset coming to a public place near you?

A company with a name that sounds like a book title has formed to beat back COVID and future health crises by tapping the powers of AI.

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Surgical AI raises ethical questions

If an AI-brained surgical robot refuses to do its job at a critical moment in the OR, who is responsible for stepping in?

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Prostate algorithm may be ready for routine clinical practice

Researchers have demonstrated the use of an AI tool that can accurately identify or rule out prostate cancer on digitized pathology slides from core needle biopsies.

Another FDA green light for Zebra

The FDA has OK’d the sixth medical AI application developed by Israel-based Zebra Medical Vision. The latest iteration helps breast-specialized radiologists by flagging questionable lesions appearing in 2D mammograms.

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AI detects conflicts of interest in medical journals, spots unexpected trend

Medical journals accepting reprint fees are much more likely to publish articles written by authors who received industry payments.

Pandemic may give AI a chance to pass its long audition

The COVID crisis could close the gap between what healthcare AI can do in clinical research settings and how it can contribute to actual patient care.

Around the web

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.

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.

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.