Podcast: The Gene-Editing Company That Didn't Need CRISPR
Sangamo’s innovations recently earned it $3 billion. Why? But first, the CRISPR origin story.
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.
The Increasing Clout of the Clinical Research Network
With members like Pfizer and USC Keck School of Medicine, TriNetX aims to improve how healthcare handles research data.
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.
Why Aetion's Push for Real-World Data Earned It $36M
As the era of value-based care begins, the start-up is targeting biopharma and insurers.
Protected Health Information of 2100 Patients Exposed After 2 Hard Drives Stolen
The Chesapeake Regional Healthcare data breach emphasizes the wide-ranging threat to patients’ medical records.
Coast Guard Hops on Defense Department's Cerner Pact
The United States Coast Guard will finally be digitizing its health records.
Deep Neural Network Trained on 50K Images Improves MRI Scans
How the artificial intelligence behind AUTOMAP yielded higher-quality images of the brain.
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.
Eyeing Growth, Digital Health Insurer Alan Raises $28M
Why the French answer to Oscar Health is attracting international attention.
Holding Public Algorithms Accountable
Artificial intelligence is infiltrating many institutions. Here’s how governments can handle the technology without burning the public.
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.
Trying to Shore Up Medicaid Data, Ocrolus Raises $4M
The start-up plans to use the same AI that analyzes financial documents to examine Medicaid applications.
Want Better Treatments for Parkinson's Disease? Smartphones Can Help
Johns Hopkins University researchers developed an app that collects patient data. Better information could boost precision medicine.
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.
Roche Caps Purchase of Flatiron Health, Upping Its Data Game
What the pharma giant saw in the oncology analytics whiz kid.
Podcast: What Healthcare Can Learn From Baseball
Neil Kudler, MD, joins our podcast to discuss how analytics changed baseball—and medicine. But first, the story of a major league hacking scandal.
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.
Reducing Postoperative Readmissions: There's an App for That
How mHealth is striving to fight surgical complications.
Which Health-Tech Start-Ups Are Making Money in 2018?
A new venture capital analysis spotlights companies and sectors to watch.
