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"Even the term ‘concierge medicine’ we think is problematic. Our best shot might be ‘personal online doctor.’ 'Telehealth' is not the right word."

Jefferson College of Population Health Dean David Nash, MD, explains the facts and why they matter.

Hint: The finding relied on medical information from more than 46,000 Geisinger patients.

Believe it or not, healthcare data professionals can learn a lot from the IKEA horse meatball incident.

Can the company carve its own lane in the benefits navigation space by focusing on employers?

This year’s meeting focused heavily on the need for grassroots efforts to improve health in communities.

No shiny object can distract from the fact that a happy workforce is every exec’s best asset.

How the statewide HIE is slated to improve data aggregation, interoperability, and care.

A Verizon study concluded that healthcare is the only industry whose biggest threat is internal. Here’s how health systems can prepare.

Average lifespan in the West Side is 69 years. “That was the lifespan in the 1950s,” according to Darlene Oliver Hightower. “That’s the lifespan in Iraq.”

The 3-hospital system in New York has instituted downtime protocols. What would your organization do?

The disrupter hopes the initiative will help foster better data sharing across the healthcare system.

"Where do you think most of the health issues are? We have to first acknowledge that it, in fact, occurred.”

Vaccination rates soared during the study. But can the program work for the rural US?

What might this means of data generation teach medicine about drugs?

It wants the communities it serves to be 20% healthier by 2020.

Secretary Shulkin led off a speech today in Philadelphia by reading off a scathing criticisim of his agency.

At the Population Health Colloquium, the Dean of Jefferson College of Population Health had 11 trends to watch...and 1 big brag.

“We are talking about a $16 billion project that will take a very long time,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) said yesterday. Previous projections had been much lower.

Cybercriminals are coming for your healthcare data. Here’s how you can fight fire with fire.

Unintentional bias and data privacy often steer the conversation. Profiteering, intentional bias, and the possibility of machine dependence don’t.

The combination of internal and external motivators can be powerful for patients in cardiac rehabilitation.

Just because February's over doesn't mean healthcare organizations are done reporting data breaches to OCR. One new incident may have compromised 135,000 patient records.

According to a House Committee on Veterans' Affairs meeting this morning, the Secretary was supposed to announce a finalized Cerner contract during last week's megaconference. He didn't.

At HIMSS, we asked dozens of attendees what buzzwords were starting to wear on them. A few words broke away from the pack.

At HIMSS 2018, we spoke with venture capitalist Anya Scheiss and healthtech startup exec David Levin, MD, whose company Scheiss helped get off the ground.

Augmented reality could become a valuable teaching tool for the next generation of surgeons.

How the machine learning algorithm came to match the capabilities of ophthalmologists and retinal specialists.