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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FDA to hopeful marketers of AI-equipped medical devices: Think beyond your initial approval

Some FDA-approved medical devices age more safely than others. That’s no less true of AI-enabled technologies than of any others. The agency spells out the ramifications in draft guidance issued this week. 

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Hospital boards of trustees should be grilling their CEOs about AI. 

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5 healthcare AI predictions for 2025 from Wolters Kluwer Health

Watch for healthcare AI to increase its footprint in the patient-safety domain over the coming year. 

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Healthcare AI startups that earn FDA approval are like jobseekers after landing a new job. 

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2024 in AI weirdness: ‘Insane’ ChatGPT and mutant rat genitals were only the beginning

The past 12 months have brought numerous exciting advances involving AI and related emerging technologies. Let us not fail to take a short last look at some of the more spectacular flops. 

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Who is Sriram Krishnan, and why is he headed to the White House? 

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10 signs AI is ‘eating the world (of venture capital)’

Some investment analysts are predicting a more permissive M&A market, deregulation as a catalyst for growth and fiscal policies that stimulate economic activity. And they see AI as a catalyst in the shift. 

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Nurses are making their peace with workplace AI. 

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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.