SPOTLIGHT -
The Road Ahead for Choosing Wisely: Turning Innovation Into Action
It isn't enough to just garner hundreds of value-based recommendations: They need to be credibly disseminated and implemented.
So, Who's Left at the VA, and What Does that Mean for the Cerner Deal?
With its EHR modernization efforts in limbo, the agency's top IT boss has stepped aside.
Don't Interrupt a Nurse When They're in the EMR
New research showed that interruptions drastically increase a nurse's mental workload during EMR documentation.
Department of Justice Will Take Up Cigna-Express Scripts Merger
The healthcare industry’s consolidation drag race will have a referee after all.
Paired with a Good Algorithm, a Smartphone Camera Might Detect Heart Disease
With machine learning, USC researchers correlated measurements taken nonintrusively by an iPhone camera to detailed tonometry data.
Are Doctors Choosing Wisely Yet?
The ABIM Foundation’s initiative to cut healthcare waste has compiled hundreds of suggestions. Getting doctors on board will be a different story.
Big Names Put Big Money Behind VR Surgery Start-Up
There isn't too much information out there about Vicarious Surgical, but Gates, Khosla, Benioff, and Yang seem to think it's a good idea.
OIG: Medicare Billed for Millions in Noncompliant Telehealth Claims
The vast majority of incidents involved the program being billed for a telehealth encounter that did not originate in a rural location.
Device Maker Inogen Reports Data Breach That May've Affected 30,000 Patients
The company's admission joins a spate of recent, high-profile breaches involving thousands of patients' information.
St. Jude Puts a Huge Pediatric Cancer Genomics Dataset in the Cloud
The publically-accessible repository, built alongside Microsoft and DNAnexus, is meant to spur research and collaboration to fight pediatric cancer.
ODH and Princeton University Announce Machine Learning Pop Health Collaboration
ODH will provide the healthcare expertise. Princeton will supply the “math power.” Those are Adam Johnson’s words, not ours.
Hunting for the Heart of a Changing Community
Neighborhoods nationwide are facing new shocks ranging from spiking suicide rates to surging populations. Health systems can manage these swings with high-tech tools.
The Population Health Problems Facing Urban and Rural America
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania, have unique and complex demographic situations that can complicate healthcare.
Gottlieb Takes to Twitter for AI, Next Generation Sequencing Announcements
"Promoting and protecting public health requires FDA to adopt policies to ensure regulation serves as bridge to innovation, not a barrier to it," he tweeted.
CVS Looks to Lower Patient Drug Costs With New Digital Tools
The pharmacy chain is integrating pharmacist- and provider-facing tools to help them recommend cheaper alternatives.
Experts Sound Off on How AI Became a Bad Buzzword
We asked a lot of experts what buzzwords they were tired of. No term—not even blockchain—was mentioned more often than artificial intelligence.
First-of-its-Kind AI Tool for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection Approved by FDA
The system, granted expedited review by the agency in February, can now be used by primary care doctors.
Coast Guard Hops on Defense Department's Cerner Pact
The United States Coast Guard will finally be digitizing its health records.
Could Augmented Reality Help Fight Parkinson's-related "Freezing"?
A team of students at Rice University developed an app that uses visual cues to mitigate that vexing symptom.
Wave Life Sciences and Deep Genomics Join Up to Splice
The pair want to combine their chemistry and machine learning platforms to find targets for neuromuscular disease treatments.
If You're Going to Ask a Message Board, Maybe Ask Your Doctor, Too
Dr. Google runs the risk of confusing patients, but Dr. Message Board also has the potential to misinform.
CMS May Lack Data to Properly Oversee ACA's Special Enrollment Periods
Insurers participating in the federal exchanges grumbled to the Government Accountability Office about the problem.
Landmark Health Founder to Head Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
Adam Boehler will take over CMS's value-based care test kitchen.
Michigan County Looks to Genomics in the Fight Against Opioid Abuse
A new program there is armed with $750,000 in grant funding to look for answers in the assays.
What's the Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Good, Old Analytics?
Everyone in health IT seems to have a slightly different take on what the terms mean. Here's what Ayasdi CEO Gurjeet Singh thinks.
Even Without PHI, Facebook Generates A Lot of Useful Health Data
The social media giant's now-halted pitch to health systems is actually somewhat similar to a health intitiative it already runs...with one key difference.
Demystifying Big Data and Machine Learning for Healthcare
In a new commentary, a pair of Harvard informaticists argue that there's "never a specific threshold wherein a model suddenly becomes machine learning."
Vulnerabilities Are Surging, and Healthcare Cybersecurity Might Struggle to Keep Up
A pair of new reports illustrate the cybersecurity paradoxes facing large organizations, like health and pharma companies.
For One Veterans' Health Program, Video Counseling is a Boon
“When I came home in 2005, I don’t think there were as many programs like this in existence,” Road Home Program psychologist Blake Schroedter said.
Errant Email May Have Exposed 30,000 Mississippians' PHI
The Mississippi State Department of Health is sending out letters warning patients of the unauthorized disclosure.