SPOTLIGHT -
Boston Patient Experience Symposium Attracts Star Power for Tech Improvement Talk
The Fourth Annual Conference will bring together stakeholders to enhance patient experience in their healthcare ecosystems.
Podcast: AI, Big Data and Existing Challenges (Part Two)
Paul Cerrato joins Data Book for part two of a podcast on clinical decision support tools and obstacles that exist.
Podcast: How Clinical Decision Support Tools Can Improve Outcomes (Part One)
Clinical decision support tools can be lifesaving.
Podcast: Health Tech in the 2010s and Beyond
Shereese Maynard, M.S., MBA, discusses the influence of health tech in the 2010s and makes projections on what's to come.
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to Sponsor Award for the Boston Scientific Connected Patient Challenge
A new sponsor will award a Massachusetts-based organization up to $25,000.
Podcast: Using Analytics, Precision Medicine to Improve Preterm Infant Outcomes
Tracy Warren, CEO and co-founder of Astarte Medical, discusses leveraging predictive analytics to measure the gut microbiome in preterm infants.
Podcast: How FDA Is Navigating the Digital Transformation
Featuring Amy Abernethy, M.D., Ph.D., principal deputy commissioner and acting CIO of the FDA.
Virtual Humans Can Improve Communication Skills in Medical Students
The technology helped the students learn verbal and nonverbal skills.
Emerging Trends: Migrating to the Cloud
The healthcare industry has seen a massive acceleration in the overall acceptance of cloud-based tech.
How Value-Based Care Can Lead to More Personalized Patient Care
Physicians can provide more individualized treatment if they know how their patient’s health is outside of the four walls of care.
Veterans' Use of Telehealth Services Is Up 17% in 2019
More than 900,000 veterans used VA telehealth services this year.
Rad AI Launches with $4M, Will Use AI to Automate Administrative Radiology Tasks
The product uses machine learning and could lead to more accurate and quicker patient diagnosis.
Moving Away from Traditional Healthcare
The industry is beginning to realize healthcare can be accessed from different places.
Ransomware Attack Results in Loss of Medical Records
Saint Francis restored some medical records but could not backup others.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Grants $500K to 5 Nonprofits Addressing SDOH
This is just one of many initiatives by BCBS to address population health and SDOH.
How CMS Is Addressing Rural Population Health
On National Rural Health Day, the agency provided a recap of its initiatives to improve access to care in rural areas.
Podcast: Playing a Medical Video Game for CME Credit
Sam Glassenberg, CEO and founder of Level Ex, discusses the inception of Level Ex and developing a video game app that physicians can use to earn CME credit.
Video Communication Tech Could Help Train Surgeons
The system did not increase cognitive load, researchers reported.
83% of Physicians Are At Risk for Burnout, Survey Finds
Health systems are starting to address physician burnout.
FDA Grants Breakthrough Status to Heart Failure Tech
The system helps the healthy portion of the heart to work more efficiently.
How Virtual Care Can Address the Disconnect in Healthcare
Having all of a patient's data in one place gives a more clear picture of their health.
Wellington Management Closes $393M Biomedical Innovation Fund
The firm will invest in biotech companies focused on drug discovery and development.
FDA Brief: Addressing Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities to Patients
Patient safety depends on cyber safety, agency experts wrote.
Defining Successful Digital Health Initiatives
What makes a digital health initiative successful? An expert explains at HLTH2019.
Why Did You Go into Digital Health?
Part one of interviews featuring experts explaining why they got into the digital health space.
Should Health Systems Fear Non-Traditional Healthcare Brands?
There are ways for the two to work off each other to improve outcomes.
Risk Score Helps Predict Life Expectancy in Patients with Heart Failure
Using AI and EHR data, researchers developed a risk score that achieved an AUC of 0.88.
FDA Clears AI Image Analysis System to Help Clinicians Interpret Echocardiograms
EchoGo Core could help improve patient care delivery.
Challenges to Implementing the Info Blocking Rule
New regulations could mean new challenges for health systems.
Avidity Biosciences Earns $100M for Precision Medicine Platform
The platform could help create new treatments for patients with muscle disorders.