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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Computer-animated counselors could improve patient understanding of breast cancer

Interacting with a computer-animated virtual counselor could help patients know more about complex health issues, including breast cancer, according to new findings published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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AI can help spine specialists cut costs, predict outcomes, assess imaging findings

AI technologies could make a significant impact on the future of spine care, according to a new analysis published in Global Spine Journal.

 

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Meet Google’s secret weapon for improving AI speeds—no cloud required

AI is only going to be a true game-changer if it can work its magic with significant speed and efficiency.

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Patients trust medical AI more than healthcare providers do

Patients and healthcare providers both see potential in AI’s ability to improve healthcare. Patients, however, appear to trust AI technology more than providers.

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RSNA reflects on 2019 annual conference, AI's importance to radiology

RSNA has announced that the official registration number for RSNA 2019 was 51,800, with another 6,754 participants registering for the online virtual meeting.

AI monitors glucose levels with ECG data

Patients can now use AI to monitor their glucose levels with off-the-shelf, noninvasive wearable sensors, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports.

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AI helps verify if imaging findings suggest heart attack or myocarditis

Radiomics and machine learning can help healthcare providers determine if late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) on cardiac MR images is a sign of myocardial infarction (MI) or myocarditis.

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Aidoc’s AI solution for LVOs gains FDA clearance

Aidoc announced Monday, Jan. 13, that its AI solution for detecting large-vessel occlusions (LVOs) in head CTA examinations has gained FDA clearance.

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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.