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The President of the Biden Cancer Initiative speaks on the "sails in the water" holding back the fight against cancer, including a lack of interoperability.

The SoftBank Vision Fund bestowed more than ten figures on the rising biotech company, which also announced yet another subsidiary.

“Imagine if your Wi-Fi router knows when you are dreaming..."

The firms utilized everything from novel devices to advanced analytics to dogs.

"Pretty much on an ongoing basis, we’re dealing with a smarter system every time."

“The culture of science suffers from a lack of self-reflection.”

Critics argue that the law could have negative effects on the clinical trial process.

For better health and financial outcomes, patients need transparency and directness. For physicians, the transition may be tough.

“Visionary organizations already know the train has left the station,” Yele Aluko, MD, says.

The company emphatically denies that the incident could constitute a breach of unsecured PHI under the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule.

In part 2 of this week's Q&A, Medicomp Systems' CMO has some direct words for the hype surrounding artificial intelligence, the usefulness of natural language processing, and the potential of his own company.

"For the last 30+ years, the company has sat down with physician experts to ask, say, ‘if you’re seeing a patient with bacterial pneumonia, what would you expect to see? What would you ask, what historical facts would you like to know?'"

In Part 2 of the interview, Bradley speaks to what makes analytics in healthcare unique, the breadth and integrity of provider data, and how better financial interactions with patients may improve their perception of healthcare providers

“All of the goodwill that’s been accumulated when we have the patient in our care, that’s thrown out the window because we haven’t maintained the patient experience in the financial relationship we have with the patient.”

In the face of mosquito-borne threats like Zika, Microsoft joins other tech firms in trying to combat the flying vectors.

"Two years ago people were still saying 'well, let’s see what happens to these programs.' Now, everyone is saying that it isn’t a question of 'if', it’s 'at what pace?'"

"Sometimes serendipity smiles." Dr. Drouin, in the first part of our interview, spoke to the needs his company aims to fill, the pursuit of value-based care, and the process of leaving a career and getting a startup off the ground.

“Big data is not just about big numbers, but also the patterns that can explain important health trends,” says the NIH's Grace Peng. A new Stanford study used some huge data to track obesity.

Value-based care is not necessarily cheap. A new MIT study finds that hospitals more reliant on outpatient nursing facilities often yield higher mortality rates.

Wearables just might not have the appeal and sustainability once thought, if the fall of one of the market’s earliest stars is any indication. Today, it was reported that Jawbone was liquidating itself.

In published documents and a detailed blog post from its Commissioner, the FDA made public its plans for using data modelling to improve regulatory trials.

Keeping young patients with long-term health concerns engaged via text, email, and phone calls might improve outcomes and reduce healthcare costs down the road. On that road, however, there are plenty of challenges to consider.

The company's DeepMind subsidiary and the UK's Royal Free health system may not have done enough to inform patients their data was in use. The two are working to develop an alert application to analyze risk of kidney disease.

"Whether such artificial-intelligence systems are ‘smarter’ than human practitioners makes for a stimulating debate—but is largely irrelevant," they write.

The recent attack ravaged everything from Maersk to Merck. It also impacted small health systems in the US, whether it meant to or not.

Using the same exploit as WannaCry, a new attack is ravaging computer systems worldwide.

“With telemedicine, distance is no longer an impediment to receiving health care services from anywhere in Pennsylvania or across the country,” says State Senator Elder Vogel.

Experts compare existing paging methods within hospitals to "paved cowpaths."

Morris Panner spoke to HCA News about the interoperability landscape and his company's change from DICOM Grid to Ambra Health.

Morris Panner, CEO of Ambra Health, gave a detailed interview on interoperability, artificial intelligence, value-based care, and the business of running a health tech company.