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The new Partnership for America’s Health Care Future has enormous reach. But what it will do remains unknown.

The new partnership also calls for closer drug discovery collaboration between WuXi AppTec and Insilico Medicine.

One year after 2 devastating cyberattacks, healthcare is still grappling with a jarring new threat.

Ethics, interoperability, and the wearables revolution dominated our reading (and listening) this week.

European leaders are investing in AI in an effort to catch up with the US and Asia.

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How wearable devices (and the data they churn out) could revolutionize medicine.

It remains unknown whether the sour web experiences cause depressive symtpoms or are appealing to those already suffering them.

The capture of the alleged Golden State Killer might lead to justice for his victims and families. But many question the ethics of the measures police used to identify and put him behind bars.

How did Wyoming, of all places, build an all-encompassing app that’s already improving care?

A new study out of Stanford found that patients might not have the concerns that experts think they do.

A best-selling health app held a 4.8-star rating, but that meant nothing once researchers found its metrics to be highly inaccurate.

Genetic tests are booming, but can primary care providers keep up?

A CMMI-backed program transitions rural hospitals to a value-based, global budgeting model to evaluate outcomes and cost savings.

How the start-up hopes its software platform will transform R&D.

Mandatory bundled payments, in particular—which they say hold greater potential for research and savings.

It led to “missed opportunities” during the ACA rollout and a key time in the opioid epidemic.

92 million accounts may have been exposed in a recent cybersecurity incident. Actually, 92,283,889, to be exact.

The combined company will now offer services in more than 20 languages and reach well over half of the countries in the world.

One by one, the company has been adding pieces to what could be a very disruptive suite of healthcare technologies.

The Epic-friendly startup wants to knock paper out of the DME prescribing chain.

The oversight agency found a slew of deficiencies as the temporary program is set to be replaced by a permanent incarnation.

The burgeoning gen-editing giant will test its zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) editing technology against lysosomal storage disorders in children.

The company plans to have a fully functional version commercialized in just a few months.

Can’t-miss insights on physician suicide, genealogy database ethics, and more.

If there’s truth to the hacker’s claims, the situation could spell further trouble for Holland Eye Surgery and Laser Center.

Data breach events reported last month may have impacted more than 800,000 patients.

"An objective, precise, compact, unambiguous, easily-interpretable description of all loops, stems, and pseudoknots."

Additional major US-based healthcare systems are also expected to participate in the RenalytixAI collaboration.

What you need to know from another busy week in health IT.