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More Physicians Are Learning About Genetics, But That Doesn't Mean They're Confident
Genetic tests are booming, but can primary care providers keep up?
Searching for Value-based Care Solutions in Rural Pennsylvania
A CMMI-backed program transitions rural hospitals to a value-based, global budgeting model to evaluate outcomes and cost savings.
nference Scores $11M to Strengthen AI for Life Sciences
How the start-up hopes its software platform will transform R&D.
Penn Researchers Continue to Beat the Drum for Bundled Payments
Mandatory bundled payments, in particular—which they say hold greater potential for research and savings.
Medicare Substance Abuse Data Redacted for 4 Years, Fueling Flawed Research
It led to “missed opportunities” during the ACA rollout and a key time in the opioid epidemic.
MyHeritage Data Breach: 4 Fast Facts
92 million accounts may have been exposed in a recent cybersecurity incident. Actually, 92,283,889, to be exact.
Teladoc Goes Global with Massive Advance Medical Purchase
The combined company will now offer services in more than 20 languages and reach well over half of the countries in the world.
How Apple's API Fits Into Its Burgeoning Healthcare Stack
One by one, the company has been adding pieces to what could be a very disruptive suite of healthcare technologies.
Parachute Health Raises Millions for Its Fight Against Fax Machines
The Epic-friendly startup wants to knock paper out of the DME prescribing chain.
GAO Report on VA Choice Program: Long Wait Times, Bad Data
The oversight agency found a slew of deficiencies as the temporary program is set to be replaced by a permanent incarnation.
Sangamo Gets Green Light for UK Clinical Trials
The burgeoning gen-editing giant will test its zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) editing technology against lysosomal storage disorders in children.
Docbot Rolls Out Integrated AI Tool for Colonoscopy Assistance, Documentation
The company plans to have a fully functional version commercialized in just a few months.
4 Hot Takes From the Week in Health Tech
Can’t-miss insights on physician suicide, genealogy database ethics, and more.
Hacker Accuses Michigan Ophthalmologists of Hiding His Attack for 2 Years
If there’s truth to the hacker’s claims, the situation could spell further trouble for Holland Eye Surgery and Laser Center.
May: Another Banner Month for OCR-Reported Data Breaches (In a Bad Way)
Data breach events reported last month may have impacted more than 800,000 patients.
Big Data Tool Represents Major Step for RNA Substructure Analysis
"An objective, precise, compact, unambiguous, easily-interpretable description of all loops, stems, and pseudoknots."
Mount Sinai Announces Partnership to Launch Renal Disease-Fighting AI System
Additional major US-based healthcare systems are also expected to participate in the RenalytixAI collaboration.
Our Top 5 Health-Tech Stories: Google's AI, Human Longevity, and Alexa for Healthcare
What you need to know from another busy week in health IT.
Podcast: A New Kind of Warfare
One year after the WannaCry and NotPetya cyberattacks, Data Book analyzes the fresh global threat facing healthcare.
Stanford Researchers Build Artificial Neuron in Effort to Mimic Skin
The concept might someday aid in the creation of more lifelike prosthetics (or robots).
Telehealth Might Democratize Genetic Counseling (and Testing)
When offered remote counseling, patients were far more likely to be tested...and to have their potentially-risky variants identified.
Will the mHealth Market Break $28B in 2018?
A new report says yes—and that wearables will also grow.
A Generalizable Infection Risk Predictor Based on EHR Data
No 2 hospitals are alike, and their predictive analytics tools should probably reflect that.
Forensic Genealogy Is Neat. Is It Ethical, Though?
After genealogy data was used to make an arrest in the Golden State Killer case, NIH bioethicist Benjamin Berkman had some questions.
Health Information Exchanges Improve Both Care and Costs, Review Finds
Just 3 years ago, the same authors found “little generalizable evidence” of HIE benefits.
Propeller Health Rakes in $20M, Announces Aptar Pharma Partnership
Propeller and Aptar first collaborated in 2016. The former just gave the latter a big chunk of change—and a long-term partnership.
AI, Big Data Continue Big Year as OM1 Raises $21M
Why investors like the company’s high-tech approach to patient outcomes.
FDA Challenges Digital Health Innovators to Join Fight Against Opioid Abuse
The goal? New tech tools to fight the opioid crisis. The prize? A shot at expedited review.
J. Craig Venter Moving On from Human Longevity
One of the world's most-recognized genomic scientists is retiring from the ambitious company that he founded.
Without Context, a Neural Network Diagnosed Melanoma Better Than 58 Dermatologists
“When I came across recent reports on deep-learning algorithms...I immediately knew that we had to explore these artificial intelligence algorithms for diagnosing melanoma.”