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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Look Before You Leap & Other Advice for Cardiologists Considering Telemedicine

Cardiologists are well-positioned to leverage telemedicine, but they should eyeball the pros and cons before taking the plunge. 

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How AI Will Impact the Healthcare Workforce

The American Hospital Association predicts how hospitals will operate when AI and machine learning are on board.

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Spread Too Thin? Strategies for Deploying Cardiology Teams Across Sites of Service

As healthcare strives to be everywhere for every patient, clinicians may be on the fast track to burnout. Here’s how some practices are dispersing their teams to achieve quality care, efficient workflows and satisfied clinicians.

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The Art of Storytelling: Innovation, Advocacy & the War on ‘Fake News’ in Medicine

In his new book, Haider Warraich, MD, looks back at cardiology’s remarkable past and predicts what today’s challenges signal for the specialty’s future.   

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Cardiology’s Challenge for the 2020s: Turning the Trend on Rising Mortality

The latest numbers on cardiovascular deaths put the focus on innovative ways to point the trend line down again.

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'Tons of information but not nearly enough wisdom': The state of cardiology in 2019

The past year has seen a whole lot of change for the field of cardiology, but it’s hard to discern where that leaves us as we prepare for 2020. MedAxiom President Jerry Blackwell, MD, MBA, helped clarify the situation.

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What ‘digital transformation’ means for cardiology

The notion of a digital transformation in cardiology, and healthcare as a whole, is an appealing one. But data presented at MedAxiom’s CV Transforum last week suggests we’re further away from a transformation than we might think.

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5 CV innovations bound to make an impact in 2020

Cleveland Clinic revealed its predictions for the top 10 medical innovations of 2020 on Oct. 23, naming five cardiovascular concepts in the process.

Around the web

Several key trends were evident at the Radiological Society of North America 2024 meeting, including new CT and MR technology and evolving adoption of artificial intelligence.

Ron Blankstein, MD, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains the use of artificial intelligence to detect heart disease in non-cardiac CT exams.