It's Time to Help Our Healthcare Providers
This is the first letter in a series designed to promote physician and clinician healing in the digital transformation.
Apple Watch ECG App Goes Live
The ECG app could help patients be more proactive with their heart health.
Podcast: The Artificial Intelligence Question
How can healthcare assess AI’s potential? Data Book explores testing grounds and hosts a health-tech KOL panel on the tech’s future.
FDA Bets on Real-World Evidence
The proposed framework could provide patients and providers answers quicker, according to FDA Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, M.D.
How Machine Learning Predicted Post-Cardiothoracic Surgery Complications
The deep learning methods performed better than clinical reference tools, according to the study.
Subtle Medical's AI Imaging Tool Earns FDA Clearance
This device could make scans four times faster, according to the company.
Mobile Machine-Learning Program Predicts Autism with High Accuracy
The system uses home videos and human video raters to diagnose children with autism.
High-Tech Drug Discovery Startup Kallyope Bags $21M in Funding
Its drug discovery platform leverages bioinformatics, genome sequencing and the gut-brain axis.
Is Your Healthcare Database Exposed Online?
30 percent of healthcare databases can be accessed freely, a new report finds.
Health Systems Must Beware of Retail Telemedicine
Telemedicine is becoming more competitive, but there’s still hope for health systems.
Yes, You Can Prevent that Healthcare Data Breach
6 ways healthcare providers can lower their risk of a data breach.
FDA Recognizes First Ever Public Database for Genetic Variants
The database could decrease clinician and researcher burden.
The First Real Measure of Telemedicine Use Is Here, and Small-Practice Docs Are Lagging
But hospitals use telemedicine more than most specialty practices.
Blockchain Technology: A Foundation for the Future of Healthcare?
Health information exchange, data security and healthcare all might benefit from blockchain technology.
Can a Price Transparency Tool Boost Patient Savings?
The tool improves medication adherence and eliminates treatment wait time, according to its maker.
New Tool Identifies High-Risk Patients with COPD
The Ottawa COPD risk scale can decrease the number of unnecessary hospital admissions.
How an mHealth App Could Increase HIV Testing, Detection
An app for HIV self-testing proved effective in Canada. Can that mHealth app’s success spread?
FDA Says AI for CTEPH Pattern Recognition Is Breakthrough Device
Radiologists often have the first chance to identify CTEPH in patients, and this AI software could help.
Bright Health Raises $200M, Continuing Strong Year for Digital Health Insurers
The health insurer’s funding round signals confidence in the industry’s attempt at disruption.
Our Top 5 Health-Tech Stories of November
Health tech is an exciting space. Here’s what every healthcare leader must know to succeed.
What Can Healthcare Learn from the Marriott Data Breach?
The data breach shows that hackers can remain undetected for long stretches.
Helping HIPAA Compliance and Vendor Management
How healthcare stakeholders can navigate the HITRUST framework.
CVS Health Completes $70B Acquisition of Aetna. What Does It Mean?
CVS sees plenty of opportunity, but some healthcare insiders and advocates are concerned.
Keeping HIPAA Compliance Efforts Up to Date
HIPAA compliance requires great effort, but tech can help.
CRISPR Baby Outrage Grows, Fueling Calls for Prosecution, Bans
Though many find He Jiankui’s gene-editing experiment unethical, there is still no proof that he did it.
A National Provider Directory Is Coming. But Will It Help?
Janae Sharp dives deep into the issues behind the big news from the ONC 2018 National Meeting.
How the Atrium Health Data Breach Unfolded
Its billing vendor, AccuDoc, has cut ties with the software vendor whose hacked system caused the data breach.
HHS Issues Draft Strategy to Reduce Health IT Burden
The department is seeking public comment on its recommendations to reduce IT burden.
Amazon Comprehend Medical Aims to Simplify Unstructured EHR Data Mining
The tech giant’s latest healthcare project uses machine learning to fight a longstanding medical records problem.
Inside a First-of-its-Kind Telemedicine Accreditation Program
Can ClearHealth Quality Institute’s telemedicine accreditation program fill an important gap in a rapidly growing sector?