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A CMMI-backed program transitions rural hospitals to a value-based, global budgeting model to evaluate outcomes and cost savings.

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.

The oversight agency found a slew of deficiencies as the temporary program is set to be replaced by a permanent incarnation.

Additional major US-based healthcare systems are also expected to participate in the RenalytixAI collaboration.

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

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

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

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

The insights you need to advance medicine’s digital transformation.

Divisions over the VA’s role and its performance in recent years have started to spawn policy changes, and the process seems to be accelerating.

What you need to know to succeed in health IT and beyond.

And they take physicians one fifth the amount of time to document that in-person appointments do.

"We demonstrated that we can use [EHR] data in combination with other tools to accurately identify people at high risk."

New social media studies come out daily. A conflicting report from UCSF researchers claims to show that Facebook can be a smoking intervention...maybe.

How these technologies can solve common data problems.

In a new commentary, Penn Medicine experts suggest how they can be taken from static documents and made into intuitive tools.

The Series C round is the latest in a string of successful funding drives for the tech-driven, on-demand doctor home visit company.

Burden of disease is growing, and ophthalmology's people power may not be able to keep up. Healthcare must turn to machine learning to fill the gap.

How a data-driven “diagnostic cockpit” could help health systems.

In a recent shareholder meeting, Zane Burke used the term "fake news" and insinuated that negative stories may have been influenced by the company's competitors.

In a new JMIR study, a pair of PhDs set out to categorize how some of the country's top hospitals were using the social media platform.

Patients who didn’t wean off opioids were more likely to obtain a prescription after discharge.

The country is committing billions into artificial intelligence research and plans to focus some of its efforts on earlier cancer detection.

From the $30B EMR market to physician burnout, these topics yielded great healthcare opinions and analyses.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma, MPH, is working to further expand access to health data.

The EMR deal is done. What does it mean for medicine?

"Our work suggests that more lives could be saved with the application of this new machine-learning-based algorithm," Mihaela van der Schaar said

The company just published new study results about the 6-month cost savings associated with a mental health drug efficacy assay.

The VA has flaws. But Andrew Cohen, MD, thinks US healthcare has more to learn from VA than VA does from the rest of US healthcare.