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Propeller Health Rakes in $20M, Announces Aptar Pharma Partnership
Propeller and Aptar first collaborated in 2016. The former just gave the latter a big chunk of change—and a long-term partnership.
FDA Challenges Digital Health Innovators to Join Fight Against Opioid Abuse
The goal? New tech tools to fight the opioid crisis. The prize? A shot at expedited review.
J. Craig Venter Moving On from Human Longevity
One of the world's most-recognized genomic scientists is retiring from the ambitious company that he founded.
Without Context, a Neural Network Diagnosed Melanoma Better Than 58 Dermatologists
“When I came across recent reports on deep-learning algorithms...I immediately knew that we had to explore these artificial intelligence algorithms for diagnosing melanoma.”
3 Big Issues Facing Healthcare for Veterans
Divisions over the VA’s role and its performance in recent years have started to spawn policy changes, and the process seems to be accelerating.
For Hypertension Patients, Virtual Visits Might Be as Effective as In-Person Care
And they take physicians one fifth the amount of time to document that in-person appointments do.
Researchers Develop New Suicide Risk Prediction Model from Massive Cohort
"We demonstrated that we can use [EHR] data in combination with other tools to accurately identify people at high risk."
Massive VA Reform Bill Looks to Improve Interoperability with Private Sector
An executive remarked that success in improving interoperability with the VA “was limited by an outdated congressional mandate—until now.”
Social Media as an Intervention: There's Plenty of Smoke, but Can It Help People Quit?
New social media studies come out daily. A conflicting report from UCSF researchers claims to show that Facebook can be a smoking intervention...maybe.
Electronic Health Records are Broken, But They Might be Fixable
In a new commentary, Penn Medicine experts suggest how they can be taken from static documents and made into intuitive tools.
Hackers Continue to Turn SamSam Loose on Healthcare
Another hospital has fallen victim to the crippling ransomware strain, which has targeted high-profile healthcare and government targets all year.
Envisagenics Stays Hot With $1.5 Million NIH Grant
The AI and genetics company has been winning competitions and grants at a steady clip this year.
Heal Hauls in Another $20M to Fuel Further Growth
The Series C round is the latest in a string of successful funding drives for the tech-driven, on-demand doctor home visit company.
Cerner President Disputes Characterization of DoD Implementation Problems
In a recent shareholder meeting, Zane Burke used the term "fake news" and insinuated that negative stories may have been influenced by the company's competitors.
Hospitals Are All Over Facebook, But What Are They Posting About?
In a new JMIR study, a pair of PhDs set out to categorize how some of the country's top hospitals were using the social media platform.
UK PM Says Cancer-Detecting AI Could Save 22,000 Lives
The country is committing billions into artificial intelligence research and plans to focus some of its efforts on earlier cancer detection.
Medtronic Devices Latest to Receive Vulnerability Warning from DHS
The device supplier joins other big names who have had vulnerabilities detected this month.
How Regence Determined Telehealth Was Saving $100 Per Appointment
"People can understand the ability to talk to a doctor remotely, but there’s a mental leap to 'Oh, this is how I can get my medical care as well!'"
Acting No More? Robert Wilkie Is Trump's New Nominee for VA Secretary
The Navy veteran and longtime DoD executive has a history in Washington, though he doesn't appear to have much healthcare experience in his background.
UCLA Researchers Develop a Better Heart Failure Algorithm
"Our work suggests that more lives could be saved with the application of this new machine-learning-based algorithm," Mihaela van der Schaar said
VA and Cerner Seal the Deal
After almost a year of waiting, the EHR giant has finally announced a formal agreement with the nation's largest integrated health system.
Genomind Says Its Pharmacogenetic Testing Could Save Healthcare Thousands
The company just published new study results about the 6-month cost savings associated with a mental health drug efficacy assay.
ONC Announces Winners of Its Secure API Showdown
Want to make building secure API servers more exciting than it already is? Make it a competition. That's what HHS's ONC did.
The Chasm Between Public Perception and Clinical Reality at the VA
The VA has flaws. But Andrew Cohen, MD, thinks US healthcare has more to learn from VA than VA does from the rest of US healthcare.
Genoox Doubles Its All-Time Funding in New Venture Round
A new $6 million funding round led by Triventures could help the company in its efforts to democratize next-generation sequencing technology.
Waterloo Researchers Combine AI and "Smart Shirts" to Track Aerobic Health
The researchers say the new study is the first to investigate aerobic system dynamics with machine learning and unsupervised wearable sensor use.
EHRs Make Up $30B Market That No One Seems to Like
A decade ago, no one could have projected the demand—nor the headaches—that the technology now creates.
Curating a New Conversation in Health Tech
We spoke to an organizer of last week’s HLTH meeting to find out how the conference tried to bring new voices and demographics into the conference circuit.
AI's Ethical Concerns Go Beyond Data Security and Quality
A new commentary from Nuffield Council on Bioethics raises issues of trust, agency, and autonomy.
Macro Data for the Microbiome
The American Gut Project has inspired more than 10,000 people to mail fecal samples to UC San Diego. That's a good thing.