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How can healthcare leverage technologies and social networking to care for veterans in need?

A tech executive for Mercy Health System explains what he looks for in data scientists—and his hires have helped the organization in several ways.

"We have doctors doing life-and-death stuff every day and we've turned them into secretaries."

Hospitals want to improve patient outcomes and save cash. Docs want to avoid reporting systems that pry them from their patients. It’s not an impasse.

Uber Health is taking a comprehensive approach toward patient privacy. Otherwise, providers would “vote with their feet,” says one expert.

Oncology start-ups leverage data to develop predictive analytics and personalized treatments. Can therapy do the same?

Announced during HIMSS 2018, the plan calls for patient access to their health records, in a push toward interoperability and value-based care.

As the EHR vendor celebrates its announcement of a major new partnership, physician staff across the country are again reporting service outages.

Early returns from 4 Department of Defense facilities are out, but Veterans' Affairs officials had indicated they'd have a deal by the end of February.

Patients were exposed by yet another snail-mail breakdown.

Why the tech titan isn’t merely exploring a new space—it’s entering the care continuum.

There are blind spots in our data-driven world, and there are some underlying weaknesses in healthcare delivery that can be traced to deficiencies in the adoption and application of new knowledge.

Bundled payments are an important part of the value-based care movement. But who is taking the lead on getting them implemented?

A new study highlights why healthcare organizations must do more than train employees to not click sketchy emailed links.

Why investors like the chatbot. Hint: natural language processing and cognitive behavioral therapy.

More than 80% of the 140,335 affected patients had their information exposed in unauthorized access or disclosure incidents.

Harvard University researchers said their findings could help improve wearable robotic devices.

The Boston-based startup and the pharma giant will work on clinically-validated digital interventions for MS and schizophrenia.

Healthy Ventures invested $1.8 million in a clinical trial recruitment firm founded by healthcare outsiders. One of the fund's founders told HCA News why.

But healthcare is among the hardest hit by extortion and data weaponization, according to a new report from the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.

Researchers at UChicago liken an influenza outbreak to a wildfire, and say that social connectivity is the wind that stokes it.

The gene-editing start-up doesn’t demand licensing fees and royalties from academic and commercial researchers.

"An epidemic of this magnitude requires us to address all aspects of the problem."

A genetic variant might be associated with opioid addiction. But it can’t yet predict outcomes for individual patients.

How the early investment could help boost precision cancer therapies.

No one knows who is behind the hacker collective, but hospitals must be prepared to fight these self-described “savage creatures.”

Spending on healthcare data and analytics is rising significantly, according to a recent survey. What factors are pushing the trend?

The company says the new system is “designed for the post-Meaningful Use era.”

Patients and physicians are more receptive to wearables than ever, but the industry's old guard have continued to see their share of the market slide.

A team of researchers from Harvard and Brigham and Women's says that their new methodology will be made freely available to other researchers.