Data + Technology

AstraZeneca and MGH announced their digital health partnership earlier this month, saying it would allow them to pair a patient app with a clinician dashboard to deploy remote patient monitoring and evidence-based patient care.

Research shows medical device companies provide higher payments than drug companies to physicians, but greater research is needed to understand the relationships and how they could impact consumer welfare.

Hospitals created “pop-up” emergency rooms to keep COVID-19 patients separate from the general hospital population, and this could create cybersecurity challenges.

Previously thought of as “health at a distance,” telehealth now encompasses digital health access via mobile and web apps, electronic health records that sync with other data sources, asynchronous care solutions, and video appointments.

Microsoft will acquire Nuance Communications, Inc. for around $16 billion.

A panel of experts discussed how care coordinating technologies that were employed during the pandemic can help improve home care for patients in a post-COVID-19 world.

Interventions to address and prevent near miss events must be customized to a nurse's individual risk profile.

A study documented shifts in telehealth use and ambulatory care during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic, from March to June 2020.

Costs were lower for those who used telehealth services.

The data and technology expert spend nearly two and half years with the FDA.

A VHA expert discusses how the health system leverages data and technology.

The highest performing machine-learning model achieved an AUROC of .7875.

The loss of privately insured in-state patients could likely hinder healthcare operations.

Socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the family, parents’ psychological state, and parenting practices are the most important factors contributing to the prediction.

Among those surveyed, 3.1% self-identified as having a disability.

Dr. Mitesh Patel, director of Penn Medicine's Nudge Unit, explains how a field of research rooted in economics is now bringing clinical benefits to patients within a health system.

The algorithm can be adopted by other hospitals and health systems to identify incident stroke.

The study findings offer general practitioners' views on prescription mHealth apps.

The companies hope to leverage tech to help with the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine.

A new study finds that online reviews are increasingly important in healthcare decision-making, but 50% of health systems lacked online reviews in 2020.

The vice president and chief data officer at Parkland Hospital in Dallas discusses how the health system leverages data.

The company is focused on improving a patient's health and overall well-being by leveraging health tech.

UK researchers have just published a novel study on the hopes and fears of ordinary citizens about how their healthcare data will be used.

The machine-learning model could save time and healthcare costs.

Data collected on the Apple Watch may help identify COVID-19.