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Fitbit Launches New Enterprise Health Platform to Drive Behavior Change
Fitbit Care uses health coaching and personalized digital health interventions. It also provides health systems, insurers and employers with enterprise-level data.
Medical Scribes Can Cut Physician EHR Time and Boost Productivity, Satisfaction
Is this the key to fighting physician burnout?
As HHS Strives to Improve Data Sharing, It Must Overcome 5 Obstacles
Even the federal government must overcome internal data silos, a new report says.
5 Stories That Examine the Highs and Lows of Health Tech
Virtual care, innovation versus implementation, and the new Apple Watch all carry big implications for healthcare.
Health Information Exchanges Are the Hidden Heroes of Hurricane Season
As Hurricane Florence strikes, HIEs are working to connect displaced patients to their medical records.
Apple Unveils Health-Heavy Smartwatch with EKG Reader
The new Apple Watch uses technology approved by the FDA.
Pursuing Interoperability Disruption, Akiri Taps Kaiser Permanente Vet as CEO
The startup is the first project backed by Health2047, the American Medical Association’s innovation arm.
OIG Recommends FDA Place Greater Focus on Med-Tech Cybersecurity
The regulator agreed with the report’s three premarket review recommendations.
Clarify Health Lands $57M in Quest to Optimize Healthcare
The company hopes to accomplish this through a real-time care guidance platform.
Lyft Strikes Patient Ride Deal, Expanding Healthcare Footprint
This is the startup’s latest step into the care continuum.
How the FDA Is Trying to Promote Med-Tech Innovation
It’s all about insurance coverage and scientific rigor.
5 Health-Tech Stories Explore Medicine's Great Frontiers
Artificial intelligence, disruption and genetic data might all have huge consequences for your health system.
New Tech Uses Smartphone Camera to Determine Whether Mosquitoes Carry Disease, Biopesticide
The diagnostic tool could improve public health efforts at a critical time.
Questions Surround 23andMe's Decision to Cut Off Developers from Its API
The move has earned the genetic testing company praise and backlash. What can we make of it?
Wearables Spotlight Health Challenges Facing Medical Residents
Real-time data suggest interns lost three hours of sleep per week.
Tempus Just Got $110M and a $2B Valuation
Its data-driven push toward precision medicine is working. Why?
The Numbers Behind the First FDA-Approved Autonomous AI Diagnostic System
IDx’s tech brings diabetic retinopathy detection to primary care.
Bad for Healthcare: 1 in 50 Emails Contains a Malicious Link
Phishing causes some of healthcare’s worst data breaches.
Battle Brews as AMA, 150 Health Groups Oppose CMS Payment Rate Proposal
But the healthcare organizations applaud cutting documentation requirements.
$4.9B Acquisition Births a Health IT Powerhouse
Verscend Technologies today completed its purchase of Cotiviti Holdings.
Rare Disease Tech Startup Gets $3M in Silicon Valley Star-Backed VC
RDMD hopes to do for rare diseases what Flatiron Health did for oncology.
Podcast: Can Healthcare Disrupt Itself?
This week on Data Book, we discuss how IBM disrupted computing and speak with a Health2047 leader.
ID.me First to Meet New Digital Security Guidelines, Paving Path for Interoperability
How the identity platform could help healthcare.
Google Is Connecting Hearing Aids to Android Devices
It’s partnering with GN Hearing to support direct streaming.
In $1.25M Seed Round, Patient Engagement Startup Lands Northwell Health
How Playback Health plans to improve physician-patient communication.
As Apple Eyes Health Chips, a Look at 4 Little-Known Sensor Projects
What is already brewing in the healthcare sensor space?
Why Don't Enough People Want to Work in Health IT?
A new survey suggests most adults never contemplated entering healthcare services administration.
Why Sansoro Health Got $8M to Fuel Interoperability
Is data integration broken?
The Opioid Crisis Has Hammered Pennsylvania. But 2 Top Health Systems Are Using Data to Fight It
What can the rest of healthcare learn from Geisinger and Penn?
Blockchain EHR Startup Taps IBM Tech to Boost Patient Data Ownership
How MedChain and Cognition Foundry also hope to spur new medical research.