Coast Guard Hops on Defense Department's Cerner Pact
The United States Coast Guard will finally be digitizing its health records.
Deep Neural Network Trained on 50K Images Improves MRI Scans
How the artificial intelligence behind AUTOMAP yielded higher-quality images of the brain.
Could Augmented Reality Help Fight Parkinson's-related "Freezing"?
A team of students at Rice University developed an app that uses visual cues to mitigate that vexing symptom.
Wave Life Sciences and Deep Genomics Join Up to Splice
The pair want to combine their chemistry and machine learning platforms to find targets for neuromuscular disease treatments.
Eyeing Growth, Digital Health Insurer Alan Raises $28M
Why the French answer to Oscar Health is attracting international attention.
Holding Public Algorithms Accountable
Artificial intelligence is infiltrating many institutions. Here’s how governments can handle the technology without burning the public.
If You're Going to Ask a Message Board, Maybe Ask Your Doctor, Too
Dr. Google runs the risk of confusing patients, but Dr. Message Board also has the potential to misinform.
CMS May Lack Data to Properly Oversee ACA's Special Enrollment Periods
Insurers participating in the federal exchanges grumbled to the Government Accountability Office about the problem.
Trying to Shore Up Medicaid Data, Ocrolus Raises $4M
The start-up plans to use the same AI that analyzes financial documents to examine Medicaid applications.
Want Better Treatments for Parkinson's Disease? Smartphones Can Help
Johns Hopkins University researchers developed an app that collects patient data. Better information could boost precision medicine.
Landmark Health Founder to Head Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
Adam Boehler will take over CMS's value-based care test kitchen.
Michigan County Looks to Genomics in the Fight Against Opioid Abuse
A new program there is armed with $750,000 in grant funding to look for answers in the assays.
What's the Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Good, Old Analytics?
Everyone in health IT seems to have a slightly different take on what the terms mean. Here's what Ayasdi CEO Gurjeet Singh thinks.
Even Without PHI, Facebook Generates A Lot of Useful Health Data
The social media giant's now-halted pitch to health systems is actually somewhat similar to a health intitiative it already runs...with one key difference.
Roche Caps Purchase of Flatiron Health, Upping Its Data Game
What the pharma giant saw in the oncology analytics whiz kid.
Podcast: What Healthcare Can Learn From Baseball
Neil Kudler, MD, joins our podcast to discuss how analytics changed baseball—and medicine. But first, the story of a major league hacking scandal.
Demystifying Big Data and Machine Learning for Healthcare
In a new commentary, a pair of Harvard informaticists argue that there's "never a specific threshold wherein a model suddenly becomes machine learning."
Vulnerabilities Are Surging, and Healthcare Cybersecurity Might Struggle to Keep Up
A pair of new reports illustrate the cybersecurity paradoxes facing large organizations, like health and pharma companies.
For One Veterans' Health Program, Video Counseling is a Boon
“When I came home in 2005, I don’t think there were as many programs like this in existence,” Road Home Program psychologist Blake Schroedter said.
Reducing Postoperative Readmissions: There's an App for That
How mHealth is striving to fight surgical complications.
Which Health-Tech Start-Ups Are Making Money in 2018?
A new venture capital analysis spotlights companies and sectors to watch.
Errant Email May Have Exposed 30,000 Mississippians' PHI
The Mississippi State Department of Health is sending out letters warning patients of the unauthorized disclosure.
Welltok Announces Largest Funding Round to Date
It had raised just north of $175 million since 2011 in a series of successful funding rounds, but Series E2 builds on that in a major way.
ONC Announces New Patient Guide for Accessing Health Records
The first challenge of the new multi-agency MyHealthEData initiative? Getting people to a website.
Gene-Editing Start-Up Poseida Lands $30.5M to Advance CAR T
The precision medicine innovator plans to use the money to finance the second generation of the immunotherapies.
State Department Seeks New EHR System
The agency put out a new Request for Information to gauge vendor interest and capabilities.
Online Doctor Reviews Don't Reflect Validated Patient Satisfaction Surveys
A new study out of the Mayo Clinic is a case for caution against the Yelp-ifying of healthcare.
Stroke-Detecting AI Company Gets Nearly $10M in New Venture Round
Brainomix's platform analyzes CT scans to diagnose stroke. The FDA just set a regulatory precedent for similar technology.
After Failing to Avert Data Breach Lawsuit, CareFirst Gets Hacked Again
The insurer is offering free credit monitoring and identity theft protection to 6800 affected individuals.
Can Agile Implementation Take Evidence-Based Care From the Journals to the Front Lines?
"We are judged on a misaligned incentive of publishing a paper, but not on ensuring that our methodology is being used," Malaz Boustani, MD, says.
