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.

AI professor who survived cancer turns talents to war on COVID

As an academic AI expert, Pascale Fung, PhD, dove into the scientific research when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. The time investment rewarded her with a depth of understanding that has helped shape her life as a cancer survivor.

Neural networks refreshed by virtual sleep

Researchers have found that spiking neural networks become unstable after unbroken periods of unsupervised self-training. Moreover, these “artificial brains” seem to restabilize after they’re given the equivalent of a good night’s rest.

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How AI is speeding up COVID-19 diagnosis

AI is stepping in to help speed up the diagnosis of COVID-19 and expedite how much time healthcare professionals spend determining COVID-19 pneumonia and non-COVID-19 cases.

AI takes aim at 158-year-old eye exam

It may be time to take a long last look at the vision exam that relies on a cardboard sheet of huge letters at the top and tiny ones at the bottom.

AI patient monitoring included in proposed emergency-response system

U.S. Army researchers are calling for the creation of a national emergency network that would coordinate select digital health technologies, including AI, in fighting COVID-19 now and other public health crises later.

American health IT giant working to launch AI research center in the Middle East

Cerner is partnering with 252-bed American Hospital Dubai to open a medical AI research center in the United Arab Emirates.

Researchers teach ‘new tricks’ to an old algorithm

Johns Hopkins radiologists have repurposed a deep learning algorithm designed to detect tuberculosis on chest x-rays to, instead, help identify COVID-19.

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Breast cancer AI wins CE certification

The European Union has certified AI software for reading mammograms, clearing the way for a South Korea-based AI vendor to sell another of its AI products across the European Economic Area.

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.