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The public health community ignores 3 important questions, according to the Dean of the College of Population Health.

Average lifespan in the West Side is 69 years. “That was the lifespan in the 1950s,” according to Darlene Oliver Hightower. “That’s the lifespan in Iraq.”

The 3-hospital system in New York has instituted downtime protocols. What would your organization do?

The disrupter hopes the initiative will help foster better data sharing across the healthcare system.

"Where do you think most of the health issues are? We have to first acknowledge that it, in fact, occurred.”

Vaccination rates soared during the study. But can the program work for the rural US?

What might this means of data generation teach medicine about drugs?

It wants the communities it serves to be 20% healthier by 2020.

Secretary Shulkin led off a speech today in Philadelphia by reading off a scathing criticisim of his agency.

At the Population Health Colloquium, the Dean of Jefferson College of Population Health had 11 trends to watch...and 1 big brag.

“We are talking about a $16 billion project that will take a very long time,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) said yesterday. Previous projections had been much lower.

Cybercriminals are coming for your healthcare data. Here’s how you can fight fire with fire.

Unintentional bias and data privacy often steer the conversation. Profiteering, intentional bias, and the possibility of machine dependence don’t.

The combination of internal and external motivators can be powerful for patients in cardiac rehabilitation.

Just because February's over doesn't mean healthcare organizations are done reporting data breaches to OCR. One new incident may have compromised 135,000 patient records.

According to a House Committee on Veterans' Affairs meeting this morning, the Secretary was supposed to announce a finalized Cerner contract during last week's megaconference. He didn't.

At HIMSS, we asked dozens of attendees what buzzwords were starting to wear on them. A few words broke away from the pack.

At HIMSS 2018, we spoke with venture capitalist Anya Scheiss and healthtech startup exec David Levin, MD, whose company Scheiss helped get off the ground.

Augmented reality could become a valuable teaching tool for the next generation of surgeons.

How the machine learning algorithm came to match the capabilities of ophthalmologists and retinal specialists.

Cota and Hackensack Meridian Health’s path toward bundled payments holds lessons for others.

Why the combination proved effective in a study, allowing pre-hospital interventions.

Michael Chertoff shared his concerns surrounding patient data and hospital operations at South by Southwest.

Mac McMillan is a defense intelligence veteran. John Nye served in the Army. At HIMSS 2018, the 2 told us about the benefits that a military mindset can bring to defending health data.

At SXSW, an expert describes what healthcare leaders must understand about the algorithms.

Michael Chertoff, the nation’s former homeland security secretary, weighed in on the issue at SXSW.

Why a cofounder of the genetic testing company said its ambitions were too lofty.

Cota's co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer would know: His company just got that amount in Series C.

Certain trendy technologies dominated the conversation, but good-old analytics still have the power to impress.

At HIMSS, healthtech experts had widely varying opinions on whether blockchain can actually do anything for the field.