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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 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.

One year after the WannaCry and NotPetya cyberattacks, Data Book analyzes the fresh global threat facing healthcare.

The concept might someday aid in the creation of more lifelike prosthetics (or robots).

When offered remote counseling, patients were far more likely to be tested...and to have their potentially-risky variants identified.

A new report says yes—and that wearables will also grow.

No 2 hospitals are alike, and their predictive analytics tools should probably reflect that.

After genealogy data was used to make an arrest in the Golden State Killer case, NIH bioethicist Benjamin Berkman had some questions.

Just 3 years ago, the same authors found “little generalizable evidence” of HIE benefits.

Propeller and Aptar first collaborated in 2016. The former just gave the latter a big chunk of change—and a long-term partnership.

Why investors like the company’s high-tech approach to patient outcomes.

The goal? New tech tools to fight the opioid crisis. The prize? A shot at expedited review.