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New social media studies come out daily. A conflicting report from UCSF researchers claims to show that Facebook can be a smoking intervention...maybe.

How these technologies can solve common data problems.

In a new commentary, Penn Medicine experts suggest how they can be taken from static documents and made into intuitive tools.

Another hospital has fallen victim to the crippling ransomware strain, which has targeted high-profile healthcare and government targets all year.

The AI and genetics company has been winning competitions and grants at a steady clip this year.

The Series C round is the latest in a string of successful funding drives for the tech-driven, on-demand doctor home visit company.

Burden of disease is growing, and ophthalmology's people power may not be able to keep up. Healthcare must turn to machine learning to fill the gap.

How a data-driven “diagnostic cockpit” could help health systems.

NCI, the analytics and artificial intelligence solutions company, will dig into the data.

What made Shivom’s secure genome sequencing so tempting to investors?

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.

HIrisPlex-S could become a powerful force in healthcare, law enforcement, and beyond.

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.

Patients who didn’t wean off opioids were more likely to obtain a prescription after discharge.

The country is committing billions into artificial intelligence research and plans to focus some of its efforts on earlier cancer detection.

From the $30B EMR market to physician burnout, these topics yielded great healthcare opinions and analyses.

The device supplier joins other big names who have had vulnerabilities detected this month.

"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!'"

CMS Administrator Seema Verma, MPH, is working to further expand access to health data.

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.

The EMR deal is done. What does it mean for medicine?

"Our work suggests that more lives could be saved with the application of this new machine-learning-based algorithm," Mihaela van der Schaar said

This podcast ties the story of the Luddites to anti-data sentiment after the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal. Featuring guest John Nosta.

After almost a year of waiting, the EHR giant has finally announced a formal agreement with the nation's largest integrated health system.

The company just published new study results about the 6-month cost savings associated with a mental health drug efficacy assay.

It takes just one click for a hacker to attack a network and steal sensitive data.

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 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.

Scientists have used a machine-learning algorithm to pinpoint bacterial patterns in the gut microbiome that appear to predict susceptibility to cholera.

A new $6 million funding round led by Triventures could help the company in its efforts to democratize next-generation sequencing technology.