5 Common HIPAA Privacy Gaps
How healthcare organizations can prevent HIPAA violations.
Meditech and Nuance Partner to Deliver AI-Powered Virtual Assistants
The virtual assistants could allow clinicians to spend more time on their patients.
Wearable Sensors Highly Accurate at Diagnosing Children with Anxiety, Depression
Scientists say motion-detecting sensors identified internalizing disorders with 81 percent accuracy.
Aetna's Apple Watch App Aims to Personalize & Incentivize Digital Health
Attain leverages real-time data and patient medical histories.
Medical Device Security Company Medigate Raises $15M
The issue must demand attention from healthcare leaders. But who’s focusing on medical device security?
The Clinical Divide: Wearable Skin Patches
Wearables are inching closer to saving serious time and money for hospitals, patients and physicians.
Smart Glasses Might Improve Triage for Disaster Victims
But the technology could take longer than traditional triage methods.
Fertility Focus Raises $2.7M for Real-Time, Predictive Tech
The company has also signed a deal with Sensiia to develop biosensors for women who want to get pregnant.
Medicare App Enables Patients to Check Coverage of Medical Services, Items
What’s Covered is the latest digital push by CMS to foster patient empowerment.
Thanking the Physicians Championing Physician Burnout
In our series with Janae Sharp, the president of Geneia recognizes 10 physicians who galvanize the industry to confront the epidemic of physician dissatisfaction.
Follow-Up Phone Calls Reduce Hospital Readmissions
Pharmacists used the phone calls to monitor medication adherence and help patients manage their medication regime.
FDA Clears Rosa Knee Software for Robotically-Assisted Knee Replacement Surgery
The software uses 3D imaging to help improve bone cut accuracy.
Podcast: Tech Is Easy. Change Is Hard.
How can health systems navigate technological and systemic changes? Data Book explores the Ascension Health story and talks with Andrew Pecora, M.D.
IBM, Aetna, Anthem & Others Announce Collab to Create a Blockchain Network
The network could improve transparency, interoperability and security.
EHR Data Reveal Patients in Rural Areas Are Prescribed More Opioids
Leveraging electronic health records (EHRs) properly can provide new insights into opioid prescribing and much more.
How Wearable Tech Data Can Help Improve Biological Age
Wearable data can be a cost-efficient way for people to gain insights about how their lifestyle affects their biological age.
5 Email Security Tips Healthcare Employees Should Know
Basic email security protocols can help health systems defend against data breaches.
Meeting the Hospital Revenue Cycle's Biggest Challenges in 2019
Healthcare providers can pick up save money and time in this unexpected place.
Sanofi Partners with Startup Creasphere for Digital Health Program
The partnership promotes the creation of innovative ways to provide patients with medical solutions.
What Healthcare Can Do to Address GAO's Concerns About Patient Matching
Can an enterprise master patient index help healthcare providers?
23andMe Genetic Test for Colorectal Cancer Syndrome Gets FDA Clearance
Why the clearance is a win for 23andMe and the direct-to-consumer genetic-testing industry.
AI Reduces Processing Time for Abnormal Chest X-rays
The average delay was reduced from over seven hours to just 43 minutes.
Digital Health Obesity Interventions Deliver Underwhelming, Short-Term Results
But an analysis suggests there is reason to be optimistic about digital health weight loss interventions.
Health Insurers Are Not Communicating Effectively with People on Medicare
Most health insurance documents are too difficult for people on Medicare to understand.
Why Patients Do Not Trust Chatbots
A lack of adoption could be costly for hospitals that offer chatbots.
Digital Therapeutics Company Secures $10M in Funding
The mHealth app provides individualized exercise plans to help users alleviate chronic pain.
Verily's Smartwatch ECG Reader Gets FDA Clearance, Upping Alphabet's Wearables Game
The wearables competition between Google’s sister company and Apple just got more interesting.
Post-Op Text Bots Improve Patient Outcomes
Patients who received messages had a better mood, stopped taking their pain medication earlier and had a faster return of motion.
FDA Rejects Immunomedics' Breast Cancer Drug
The news of the rejection comes one month after the FDA released a new data integrity guidance to improve drug quality.
How 3 Distinct Databases Exposed Link Between Opioid Marketing and Prescribing
Counties where doctors received more opioid marketing dollars saw greater mortality rates.
