In $1.25M Seed Round, Patient Engagement Startup Lands Northwell Health
How Playback Health plans to improve physician-patient communication.
As Apple Eyes Health Chips, a Look at 4 Little-Known Sensor Projects
What is already brewing in the healthcare sensor space?
Why Don't Enough People Want to Work in Health IT?
A new survey suggests most adults never contemplated entering healthcare services administration.
Big Tech Wants Blind Trust in Interoperability Promises
They won’t get it from me.
Why Sansoro Health Got $8M to Fuel Interoperability
Is data integration broken?
The Opioid Crisis Has Hammered Pennsylvania. But 2 Top Health Systems Are Using Data to Fight It
What can the rest of healthcare learn from Geisinger and Penn?
Blockchain EHR Startup Taps IBM Tech to Boost Patient Data Ownership
How MedChain and Cognition Foundry also hope to spur new medical research.
Virtual Reality Leads the Week: Top 5 Stories in Health Tech
What’s going on with VR, machine learning for dementia detection and Fitbit?
FDA Approves Marketing of First mHealth Solution for Contraception
The app is driven by an algorithm that combines body temperature input with menstural cycle data.
Scientists Create Predictive Calculator to Aid Liver Transplant Decisions
The tool helps physicians determine whether a particular patient is likely to respond to direct-acting antivirals.
Analyzing the Data Analytics Outsourcing Market
What you need to know about the rise of data in healthcare and beyond.
Researchers Crowdsource 10K Algorithms, Expanding Epileptic Seizure Prediction
They saw a 90 percent improvement in patients who had low prediction performance.
CVS, Teladoc Team Up for 24/7 Telehealth Service
Can MinuteClinic Video Visits change healthcare?
VR Could Automate Psychiatric Care Delivery, Extending Help to Millions
Results from 2 trials have showcased the therapeutic modality’s promise for schizophrenia and acrophobia.
How Apple Brings Health Records to the Smartphone
Thanks to FHIR, no data passes through Apple servers.
FDA Approves Deep-Learning Tool for Radiology Triage
Aidoc received clearance for a technology that flags acute intracranial hemorrhages.
With 860K Affected Patients, July Among Worst Data Breach Months of Year
Healthcare organizations reported 31 privacy incidents last month.
$13.8M for AlayaCare and Its High-Tech Home Care Solutions
Its cloud-based solutions include patient monitoring, telehealth and more.
Fitbit Expands Health Plan Footprint Through Blue Cross Blue Shield Deal
The partnership is another sign of the wearables company’s evolving business model.
2 Reasons Why Healthcare Must Achieve Interoperability
The problems illustrate why the bipartisan push toward interoperability is important.
How Primary Care Data and Machine Learning Can Detect Dementia
A new study found nearly 2,000 patients could have been living with undiagnosed dementia.
CMS Head: We're Working Toward Interoperability. Are You?
Administrator Seema, Verma, M.P.H., rallied the crowd at the ONC Interoperability Forum in Washington, D.C.
VR is Helping Solve Schizophrenic Auditory Hallucinations
Therapists are empowering patients with schizophrenia to build virtual representations of the voices in their heads, with promising results.
A Weed DNA Test, Interoperability and a Hack: Our Top 5 Stories
The week’s health-tech news that you can’t miss.
What to Know About the New CMS Interoperability Rule
The agency says it’s all about empowering patients, providers and data sharing.
Wearable Technology Is the Future of Healthcare
But its success requires a long-term vision.
Podcast: Why We Need to Discuss Gene Editing and Ethics
Data Book explores consent through the story of Henrietta Lacks and talks germline editing with Marcy Darnovsky, Ph.D.
Medical Imaging AI Market Could Break $2 Billion in Next 5 Years
The AI sector is growing at breakneck speed.
As Predictive Analytics Rise, End-of-Life Spending Is Scrutinized
It’s difficult to make long-term predictions about which patients will die, but some worry that more accurate tools might affect healthcare spending.
Tech Is Targeting Diabetic Retinopathy. But What Does the Market Look Like?
Algorithms and AI are only part of the equation.
