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How researchers used a Fitbit to influence behavior change.

Health-tech KOL Janae Sharp talks the brain, wearables and autism and the inventor of affective computing.

Data Book tells the story of artificial heart innovator Robert Jarvik and brings on five health-tech KOLs to discuss who is responsible for advancing medicine.

Natural Cycles unveiled the results of a study of 54,000 women. Here’s what it found.

The finding underscores a problem facing cancer care — and the power of a strong database.

The week in review is all about cybersecurity, the digital transformation and big ethical questions, but it all orbits around risk.

How healthcare organizations can succeed in population health management.

By updating Medicare’s Program Integrity Manual, groundbreaking therapies and medical devices could be more likely to be covered, the insurer says.

How tech can help patients and clinicians reap the benefits of an improved, sustainable and proactive healthcare system.

GeoPain also enables clinicians to analyze the data and even make predictions.

Health-tech KOL Janae Sharp serves up advice for cutting-edge healthcare leaders.

What does it mean when EHRs pose problems and possibilities? Or when a company can improve health but risk privacy?

Is it OK for digital health tools to exclude vulnerable populations?

Fitbit Care uses health coaching and personalized digital health interventions. It also provides health systems, insurers and employers with enterprise-level data.

Humana will hire as many as 250 people to staff an analytics center in Boston, but the company is still nailing down the details.

A group in Utah wants to improve social determinants of health in two cities — and then everywhere else.

Data, access and money challenges face mental healthcare, but there is some promising new tech.

This is the startup’s latest step into the care continuum.

It’s all about insurance coverage and scientific rigor.

Real-time data suggest interns lost three hours of sleep per week.

How new models can help healthcare in a moment of crisis.

IDx’s tech brings diabetic retinopathy detection to primary care.

Digital solutions can’t solve this problem without some help from humanity.

The new tech can also help detect major depressive disorder.

But its success requires a long-term vision.

Data Book explores consent through the story of Henrietta Lacks and talks germline editing with Marcy Darnovsky, Ph.D.

Why that’s a big data problem for population health.

The old rule led to the valuable codes being underused.

Cedars-Sinai and Johns Hopkins researchers performed the wearables study.

Why healthcare is looking at the digital transformation the wrong way.