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Pacemaker Incident Provides Important Lessons for Future Device Security Updates
What the FDA and manufacturers can do better when issuing future updates.
Defining Quality with Mayo's Nilay Shah, PhD
“Billions and billions of dollars are spent on just measuring quality that could be used for actually delivering care.”
3 Steps to Patient Data Ownership and Better Interoperability
If health systems can buy in and enable patients to access their health records, the long-term benefits could be substantial.
One Drop Announces New Digital Weight Loss Program
How the “full-stack” diabetes management company is trying to prevent people from needing its services later.
Physicians Don't Always Talk Like the Locals
Doximity drew upon its vast network of physicians to undertake the study of language barriers in healthcare.
Medtronic and American Well Combine Telehealth Efforts
Both companies said they expected to further collaborate with other companies in the crowding telehealth space.
Is AI as Smart as It Thinks It Is?
Data scientists, doctors, and marketing departments disagree on the potential of artifical intelligence for medicine.
Insilico Medicine Is Using AI to Discover New Drugs
“In theory, the methodology could apply to any medical conditions, as long as we could have enough training data.”
Veterans More Open with a Virtual Human than a Survey
What about the human-like computer made veterans more likely to discuss PTSD symptoms?
Phone Calls Outperform Text Messages in Reminding Patients of Colon Cancer Screenings
And, surprisingly, so do traditional reminder letters.
How AI Can Improve Healthcare (Beyond Clinical Insights)
From hand sanitizer use to monitoring chronic conditions, hospitals can find novel ways to harness the power of AI, according to a new report.
John Dalton, MD: Good Outcomes Data Are Hard to Find
"We're trying to get a hold of them," he said. "In the meantime, we measure compliance with process."
Dawn Lacallade: Online Doctor Ratings Are Bad for Healthcare
"They’re actually, in my opinion, driving people from the best doctors to the nicest doctors. Is there value in that?"
Dalton: Change Is Hard, But Other Industries Can Show the Way
Why healthcare companies need to trade their "mom-and-pop," experience-based instincts for a data- and outcome-driven attitude.
Dawn Lacallade: How Big Data Complements Online Communities
“One of the best parts about being a part of this industry right now is we have data. We have tons of data,” social strategy creator Dawn Lacallade says.
Jim O'Donoghue: The "Virtuous Circle" of Good Patient-Facing Technology
"We provide valuable services, patients provide more data...then we can better personalize and improve those services."
Progress Toward Interoperability Isn't Moving Quickly Enough
Less than 30 percent of hospitals got where they needed to be in 2015. But why?
Joshua Landy, MD: Medical Leadership Needs to Include Docs in Tech Decisions
Allowing physicians to not hate their technology seems attainable, if healthcare wants to achieve it
Amit Phull: Comparing the Past, Present, and Future of EHRs
"It's a bittersweet relationship that you have with VistA," the VA doctor said, indicating that there were pros and cons to the original EHR system.
Josh Landy, MD: Making Software "Feel Like a Colleague" to Physicians
"We need to act and feel like a colleague of the physician. That means culture, that means language, and that means design…"
Amit Phull, MD: Better Communication is the Next Big Thing
Despite the “buzzword” status of interoperability, it is the most important pursuit for the healthcare technology community in coming years.
Joshua Landy, MD: Why He's Bullish on Machine Learning
The Figure 1 CMO is optimistic, but he does not expect "fully functional robot doctors wheeling around the hospital diagnosing patients."
Amit Phull, MD: Healthcare Tech Innovation Demands Physician Input
"It's not that physicians aren't eager to innovate," said Amit Phull, MD: it's that often the tech they are given was made without their input.
John Dalton, MD: Avoiding Data Graveyards
Why it might be smart for some healthcare companies to build their own data warehouses.
Precision for Medicine Acquires Molecular Diagnostics Lab Epiontis
The buyer touted the lab company's "unique epigenetic technology and expertise."
How Mayo Clinic Plans to Use Data to Fight Pointless Lab Tests
They waste time and money. Can electronic health records help?
Former CMS Head McClellan Among Those Named to Board of Directors at New ACO Institute
McClellan will be joined by a roster of other healthcare industry veterans and experts.
The Struggle to Highlight the Importance of Healthcare Analytics
A Mayo Clinic physician and engineer, Jean Huddleston, MD, describes how healthcare companies can benefit from multidisciplinary “translators.”
Ezekiel Emanuel: Keys for High-Performing Hospitals
He underscored the importance of quality measurement and old-fashioned competition in encouraging doctors to use best practices.
Peter Bach, MD, On Logistical Considerations of Treating with Kymriah
"Issues which are very sort of granular and boring are actually going to be incredibly important when you're talking about this kind of money."