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The Mississippi State Department of Health is sending out letters warning patients of the unauthorized disclosure.

It had raised just north of $175 million since 2011 in a series of successful funding rounds, but Series E2 builds on that in a major way.

The first challenge of the new multi-agency MyHealthEData initiative? Getting people to a website.

The precision medicine innovator plans to use the money to finance the second generation of the immunotherapies.

The agency put out a new Request for Information to gauge vendor interest and capabilities.

A new study out of the Mayo Clinic is a case for caution against the Yelp-ifying of healthcare.

Brainomix's platform analyzes CT scans to diagnose stroke. The FDA just set a regulatory precedent for similar technology.

The insurer is offering free credit monitoring and identity theft protection to 6800 affected individuals.

"We are judged on a misaligned incentive of publishing a paper, but not on ensuring that our methodology is being used," Malaz Boustani, MD, says.

Proponents and detractors alike agree that blockchain still lacks proven use cases in healthcare. Some major companies want to change that.

Another month, another hundred-thousand-plus patients who may have had their protected health information (PHI) compromised.

150 million exposed accounts is far too many. It’s time for patients, tech companies, and healthcare organizations to adapt.

"It's just coming at us fast and furious, with CVS and Aetna, Cigna and Express Scripts, and maybe this," the President of American Antitrust Institute said.

Want to make an easy million, or 60? Just develop some proprietary genomics technologies for cancer detection and treatment.

Minutes make the difference when it comes to strokes. This device can render a diagnosis in seconds.

In the inaugural episode of our podcast, Data Book, we take a look at the grisly hacker collective called the Dark Overlord. What damage has the group done, and why is it hell-bent on hacking healthcare?

Ridesharing companies just can't resist the healthcare honeypot.

The tone of the former VA Secretary's new op-ed casts a dramatic light on a speech he gave just 10 days ago in Philadelphia.

Usability issues and variations in implementation create fears of unnecessary patient harm.

Cognitive behavioral therapy delivered online allows patients to access treatment at home. Is that the key?

The algorithm performed beyond what researchers expected.

The President tweeted that he was nominating Admiral Ronny L. Jackson to head the agency without formally announcing that Shulkin had been fired.

We’re all about great stories and great insights. And that’s what you can expect from Data Book, the first-ever Healthcare Analytics News™ podcast, dropping this Friday.

He can’t confirm or deny whether he’s a robot, but he emphasized public health and said this was a "defining moment" for new technologies.

Looking to grow its consumer-facing Health Nucleus platform, the genomics company announced a $25,000 plan that includes MRIs and a battery of other tests.

Why the health-tech start-up True Reply is donating $10 for every ether raised.

Under Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, the agency has made a concerted effort to move towards a less cumbersome, technology-friendly, risk-based approach.

The 20-year-old nonprofit has fears about an increasingly consolidated, vertically integrated healthcare industry.

But after they saw the numbers, physicians wrote fewer opioid prescriptions, a new study found.

"The majority of available user interfaces are targeted at average users. This one-size-fits-all thinking does not consider individual differences in abilities," Jussi Jokinen, PhD, said.