HIMSS Survey: Focus on Clinical Outcomes Leads to More Success with Analytics
Healthcare organizations can benefit from leveraging metrics across their system.
Is a Patient Experience Officer Right for Your Organization?
Health systems should ask two questions before deciding if they need a patient experience officer, one expert suggests.
How to Securely Go Digital in Healthcare
Going paperless can benefit health systems and patients alike.
Medicare Data Reveal Costs of Healthcare
An increase in payments to providers was associated with higher medical and drug costs, researchers found.
FDA Proposes Guidance to Increase Patient Engagement in Medical Device Clinical Investigations
Patients could help advance the development and evaluation of innovative medical devices.
InsightRX Earns $10M to Broaden Access of Precision Medicine Platform
The tech has the potential to reduce healthcare costs and improve outcomes.
True Value-Based Healthcare Requires a Coordinated Medical Record System
Implementing a new record system could put more emphasis on quality of care.
FDA Announces Participation in 2 Collaborative Communities to Overcome Med Tech Challenges
The communities aim to improve the quality of real-world evidence and medical devices.
Imaging Tech Could 'Revolutionize' Cancer Treatment
The tool locates edges of tumors during surgery to remove them.
FDA Clears Real-Time Imaging Tech for Spine Surgery
The Voyant System could give clinicians a more accurate and unimpeded view of the operative field.
Mobile Games Provide Effective Measure of Cognitive Decline
Games on your smartphone could lead to cognitive insights.
FDA Issues Guidance to Increase Access to Medical Devices
The Safer Technologies Program for Medical Devices aims to expedite the development and review of eligible medical devices.
Executive Voices: James Gfrerer, Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
James Gfrerer discusses the VA’s migration to Cerner and how being a patient in the system helps him make health-tech decisions.
FDA Clears Canon's Tomography System to Aid in Diagnosis of Retinal Diseases
The device is designed to help providers capture high-res images and scans of eyes.
Machine Learning Predicts Risk of Heart Failure in Patients with Diabetes
Researchers developed the risk score based off the top performing predictors of heart failure.
Digital Health Program Helps Reduce Blood Pressure, Study Finds
A reduction in blood pressure could lead to decreased risk of stroke and heart disease.
Physiological-Sensing Textiles Could Lead to Sleep-Related Insights
The wearable sensors could contribute to the early diagnosis of multiple disorders.
Machine Learning Helps Diagnose Patients with Head and Neck Cancers
AI could help distinguish between head and neck and lung cancers, researchers found.
Executive Voices: Manu Tandon, MBA, Chief Information Officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
BIDMC CIO discusses innovations at the hospital and moving to the cloud.
University of Alberta AI Chatbot to Help Families of Kids with Neuro Issues
Chatbot is just the latest of the machines tasked to help patients.
First European Site Adopts IBM Watson Genomics for Cancer
First European use of technology joins counterparts in U.S., Asia.
'Great Potential in Precision Medicine' for Heart Failure, AHA Says
Genetic info embedded in EHRs could have major impact, Association says.
Data Book Podcast: Talking FHIR with HL7
This week’s guest: Chuck Jaffe, Ph.D., M.D., the CEO of HL7.
Trusting our Health to the Machines: Unveiling the Mystery of Algorithms
A look at the complex mathematics looking into future health.
FDA Clears GE Healthcare's X-ray AI Suite
Algorithms could reduce turnaround time for chest X-ray reviews.
White House Asks for $1B for Non-Defense AI, Including Health
Earmarks include healthcare programs at NIH and AHRQ.
Geisinger and IBM Create Machine-Learning Model to Detect Sepsis
IBM’s tech can also help clinicians find the latest sepsis research.
HHS and Florida Hospital Reach HIPAA Right of Access Settlement
Bayfront Health St. Petersburg Pays $85,000 to Office for Civil Rights.
AI Model IDs Congestive Heart Failure from Single Heartbeat
Model could improve outcomes, reduce costs and save lives, researchers say.
Apple's Sleep Tracker "No Show" Is Probably A Good Thing
One expert thinks it might be a good thing that Apple's smartwatch does not have a sleep tracker.
