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The Internet Might Help People Cut Down or Quit Drinking
Here’s another promising finding for behavioral health in healthcare’s digital transformation.
Mission Bio Raises $30M for Cancer-Focused Precision Medicine Tech
The company said it uses DNA sequencing technology to predict and prevent cancer relapse.
EHRs Are Fueling Physician Burnout. So, Now What?
Physician burnout and health IT are linked. But healthcare can’t abandon EHRs.
Podcast: The Artificial Intelligence Question
How can healthcare assess AI’s potential? Data Book explores testing grounds and hosts a health-tech KOL panel on the tech’s future.
How an mHealth App Could Increase HIV Testing, Detection
An app for HIV self-testing proved effective in Canada. Can that mHealth app’s success spread?
Amazon Comprehend Medical Aims to Simplify Unstructured EHR Data Mining
The tech giant’s latest healthcare project uses machine learning to fight a longstanding medical records problem.
EHRs Cut Costs, Hospitalization Time
But health systems reap these benefits only when they meet meaningful use standards.
CRISPR Babies Spark Ethical Concerns
Experts and watchdogs say the birth of twins with genetically modified DNA represents precision medicine gone wrong.
Podcast: Amazon Alexa and the Potential of Voice Assistants for Healthcare
Can digital voice assistants for healthcare improve outcomes, increase efficiencies and protect patient data?
What Does HIPAA Mean for New Health Tech?
A health information and privacy expert offers insights into HIPAA compliance, wearables and voice assistants.
Update: 94K Hit in CMS Data Breach
The data breach exposed the information of nearly 20,000 additional people, revised figures show.
FDA Allows Emergency Use of First Rapid, Portable Ebola Test
The portable reader enables the test to deliver diagnostic results where patients are, leveraging data to jumpstart care in Ebola-stricken areas.
Podcast: Healthcare Regulations Lag in the Digital Transformation
Healthcare can learn from the creation of the government’s national coordinator for health IT. Featuring Duke professor and attorney Barak Richman, Ph.D., J.D.
FDA Unveils MyStudies App with Aim to Collect Real-World Data
The digital tool is designed to enhance patient data gathering, drug development and safety monitoring.
CVS Expects Aetna Deal to Close Before Thanksgiving
In its third-quarter earnings announcement, CVS Health said it has secured most of the necessary state insurance department approvals.
4 Glimpses into the Future of Healthcare
What do IBM, 23andMe and health-tech trends tell us about medicine’s evolution?
How $21M Could Help Oncology Analytics Improve Data Science for Healthcare
The company uses data, analytics and digital health to advance precision medicine and optimize costs.
FDA Targets Unapproved Genetic Tests Claiming to Predict Medication Response
The regulator issued a warning to providers and patients just one day after approving a 23andMe direct-to-consumer test regarding medication metabolism.
CMS Finalizes Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule, Delays E&M Coding Reforms
The agency claims the rule will promote innovation and limit physician paperwork burnout. Critics have managed to put off the most controversial part of the change.
Genetic Privacy Is Vague, Conflated for Patients and Researchers
A new study suggests that healthcare and research must do more to understand patients’ views of genetic privacy and to improve trust.
23andMe Secures FDA Approval for First DTC Genetic Test for Medication Metabolism
The company’s Personal Genome Service Pharmacogenetic Reports test analyzes 33 variants of several genes.
How Machine Learning Could Detect Medicare Fraud
Researchers found that a random forest learning algorithm was most effective at detecting possible Medicare fraud.
AMA Slates $15M to Innovate Physician Residency
The Reimagining Residency initiative comes at a time when demands on doctors are changing and physician burnout is roaring.
6 Health-Tech Horror Stories that Haunt Hospitals Every Day
Insufficient interoperability, cyberattacks and ethical concerns are just some of the challenges facing health systems.
Think Research Raises $25M to Market, Advance Clinical Decision Support Tools
Why investors backed the high-tech Canadian clinical decision support company.
5 Stories that Highlight the Power and Problems of Digital Health
What you need to know about Bose’s connected hearing aids, mHealth apps and health tech’s power to help patients and physicians.
Stop-Smoking Digital Health Company Carrot Earns $25M
Johnson & Johnson Innovation led the round, which will help Carrot commercialize its smoking cessation platform.
IBM's $34B Acquisition of Red Hat and Its Healthcare Implications
Both IBM and Red Hat have strong roots in health tech, a sector increasingly focused on cloud services.
CMS Says No Protected Health Information Exposed in Breach
The agency has reopened the Direct Enrollment pathway in the wake of last week’s security incident.
Podcast: How Analytics Changed Casinos & Could Change Healthcare
Las Vegas can teach healthcare a lot about patient engagement and the patient experience. Just ask Sunny Tara, co-founder and CEO of CareCognitics.