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5 Stories That Ignited Health Tech This Week
From big data’s role in solving coming healthcare problems to Comcast’s new partnership, these stories resonated with our readers.
5 Underused Tech Weapons in the Fight Against the Opioid Epidemic
Some healthcare organizations leverage data to combat addiction, but the practice must expand, argues Surescripts.
With $125M Windfall, 10x Genomics Continues Gold Rush
Genomics has attracted heavy investment in recent years. Will it ever end?
Lab on a Chip Measures Disease Immunity in Vulnerable Groups
How the device, created with a “hacker mentality,” analyzes resistance to vaccine-preventable conditions like measles.
Think Healthcare Has Yet to Benefit from AI? 200K Patients Say Otherwise
SOPHiA Genetics, a Swiss health-tech company, is celebrating a diagnostics milestone and a $1.4 billion windfall for AI overseas.
FDA Releases Much-Anticipated Digital Health Precert Model
Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, also said his agency will reveal how it plans to review medical devices with more than 1 function.
5 Ways Healthcare Can Defend Itself Against Orangeworm
A cybersecurity expert describes how to close the longstanding holes that enabled the cyberattacks.
How a New $300M Precision Medicine Fund Aims to Use AI, IoT
Aspire Universal hopes the money will “re-engineer” the start-up process for companies focused on medical devices and therapies.
The Easiest Way to Ruin a Company's Digital Health Program
But a new report describes how employers can use digital health to achieve better employee health and financial outcomes.
FDA Approves Update to Plug Abbott Cybersecurity, Battery Holes
The firmware update is now available to patients, who might face a greater risk of harm if they don’t act.
AI Goes Live for Clinical Pathology
How the diagnostic tool stands to benefit patients with prostate cancer.
Learning from Chesapeake Regional Healthcare's Hard Drive Data Breach
How the Virginia health system is strengthening security protocols. Others might want to take notice.
The Increasing Clout of the Clinical Research Network
With members like Pfizer and USC Keck School of Medicine, TriNetX aims to improve how healthcare handles research data.
Why Aetion's Push for Real-World Data Earned It $36M
As the era of value-based care begins, the start-up is targeting biopharma and insurers.
Protected Health Information of 2100 Patients Exposed After 2 Hard Drives Stolen
The Chesapeake Regional Healthcare data breach emphasizes the wide-ranging threat to patients’ medical records.
Deep Neural Network Trained on 50K Images Improves MRI Scans
How the artificial intelligence behind AUTOMAP yielded higher-quality images of the brain.
Eyeing Growth, Digital Health Insurer Alan Raises $28M
Why the French answer to Oscar Health is attracting international attention.
Holding Public Algorithms Accountable
Artificial intelligence is infiltrating many institutions. Here’s how governments can handle the technology without burning the public.
Trying to Shore Up Medicaid Data, Ocrolus Raises $4M
The start-up plans to use the same AI that analyzes financial documents to examine Medicaid applications.
Want Better Treatments for Parkinson's Disease? Smartphones Can Help
Johns Hopkins University researchers developed an app that collects patient data. Better information could boost precision medicine.
Roche Caps Purchase of Flatiron Health, Upping Its Data Game
What the pharma giant saw in the oncology analytics whiz kid.
Which Health-Tech Start-Ups Are Making Money in 2018?
A new venture capital analysis spotlights companies and sectors to watch.
Gene-Editing Start-Up Poseida Lands $30.5M to Advance CAR T
The precision medicine innovator plans to use the money to finance the second generation of the immunotherapies.
After Failing to Avert Data Breach Lawsuit, CareFirst Gets Hacked Again
The insurer is offering free credit monitoring and identity theft protection to 6800 affected individuals.
The MyFitnessPal Data Breach Must Resonate Beyond Its Userbase
150 million exposed accounts is far too many. It’s time for patients, tech companies, and healthcare organizations to adapt.
Introducing Our New Podcast, Data Book
We’re all about great stories and great insights. And that’s what you can expect from Data Book, the first-ever Healthcare Analytics News™ podcast, dropping this Friday.
Boosting Patient Centricity With $200K in Cryptocurrency
Why the health-tech start-up True Reply is donating $10 for every ether raised.
65% of Docs Prescribed More Opioids Than They Thought
But after they saw the numbers, physicians wrote fewer opioid prescriptions, a new study found.
Data Suggest Demise of Tuberculosis Is Slowing. But Tech Offers Hope.
Why telehealth could help the CDC and other healthcare stakeholders decimate the disease.
How DNA and EHR Data Helped Pinpoint a Pivotal Gene Variant
Hint: The finding relied on medical information from more than 46,000 Geisinger patients.