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“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.

Cota and Hackensack Meridian Health’s path toward bundled payments holds lessons for others.

Why the combination proved effective in a study, allowing pre-hospital interventions.

Michael Chertoff shared his concerns surrounding patient data and hospital operations at South by Southwest.

Mac McMillan is a defense intelligence veteran. John Nye served in the Army. At HIMSS 2018, the 2 told us about the benefits that a military mindset can bring to defending health data.

At SXSW, an expert describes what healthcare leaders must understand about the algorithms.

Michael Chertoff, the nation’s former homeland security secretary, weighed in on the issue at SXSW.

Why a cofounder of the genetic testing company said its ambitions were too lofty.

Cota's co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer would know: His company just got that amount in Series C.

Certain trendy technologies dominated the conversation, but good-old analytics still have the power to impress.

At HIMSS, healthtech experts had widely varying opinions on whether blockchain can actually do anything for the field.

Using Watson to improve clinical trial improvement can extend patients' lives, Mayo Clinic's Kate Pomerleau says.

40 people die every day as a result of overdose from prescription opioids. Here's how can the health IT community can help curb overdose and abuse.

Nobody knows for certain where blockchain will (or won’t) deliver in healthcare. One health IT veteran makes the case for quality measurement.

An up-and-comer in healthcare AI describes how he gauges his peers’ potential.

Our senior editor, Jack Murtha, runs down the biggest stories we've caught so far at HIMSS 2018.

The company’s track record and finances suggest it could deliver, but there’s a paucity of additional evidence.

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."