Ryan Black

It wants the communities it serves to be 20% healthier by 2020.

Secretary Shulkin led off a speech today in Philadelphia by reading off a scathing criticisim of his agency.

At the Population Health Colloquium, the Dean of Jefferson College of Population Health had 11 trends to watch...and 1 big brag.

“We are talking about a $16 billion project that will take a very long time,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) said yesterday. Previous projections had been much lower.

Unintentional bias and data privacy often steer the conversation. Profiteering, intentional bias, and the possibility of machine dependence don’t.

The combination of internal and external motivators can be powerful for patients in cardiac rehabilitation.

Just because February's over doesn't mean healthcare organizations are done reporting data breaches to OCR. One new incident may have compromised 135,000 patient records.

According to a House Committee on Veterans' Affairs meeting this morning, the Secretary was supposed to announce a finalized Cerner contract during last week's megaconference. He didn't.

At HIMSS, we asked dozens of attendees what buzzwords were starting to wear on them. A few words broke away from the pack.

At HIMSS 2018, we spoke with venture capitalist Anya Scheiss and healthtech startup exec David Levin, MD, whose company Scheiss helped get off the ground.

Augmented reality could become a valuable teaching tool for the next generation of surgeons.

Why the combination proved effective in a study, allowing pre-hospital interventions.

Three experts discuss medicine’s natural impediments to AI during HIMSS 2018.

Mac McMillan is a defense intelligence veteran. John Nye served in the Army. At HIMSS 2018, the 2 told us about the benefits that a military mindset can bring to defending health data.

Cota's co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer would know: His company just got that amount in Series C.

Certain trendy technologies dominated the conversation, but good-old analytics still have the power to impress.

At HIMSS, healthtech experts had widely varying opinions on whether blockchain can actually do anything for the field.

Using Watson to improve clinical trial improvement can extend patients' lives, Mayo Clinic's Kate Pomerleau says.

Why one venture capitalist is becoming frustrated with startups that push technology over problem-solving.

Our senior editor, Jack Murtha, runs down the biggest stories we've caught so far at HIMSS 2018.

Healthcare attorney Matt Fisher tells a cautionary tale about a health system that built its own EHR access monitoring tool.

"We have doctors doing life-and-death stuff every day and we've turned them into secretaries."

At HIMSS 2018, Lee Shapiro of 7wire Ventures describes how an investment in a patient engagement app somehow yielded a vegan restaurant finder.

As the EHR vendor celebrates its announcement of a major new partnership, physician staff across the country are again reporting service outages.

Early returns from 4 Department of Defense facilities are out, but Veterans' Affairs officials had indicated they'd have a deal by the end of February.

Bundled payments are an important part of the value-based care movement. But who is taking the lead on getting them implemented?

More than 80% of the 140,335 affected patients had their information exposed in unauthorized access or disclosure incidents.

The Boston-based startup and the pharma giant will work on clinically-validated digital interventions for MS and schizophrenia.

Healthy Ventures invested $1.8 million in a clinical trial recruitment firm founded by healthcare outsiders. One of the fund's founders told HCA News why.

Researchers at UChicago liken an influenza outbreak to a wildfire, and say that social connectivity is the wind that stokes it.