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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.

Scientists have used a machine-learning algorithm to pinpoint bacterial patterns in the gut microbiome that appear to predict susceptibility to cholera.

A new $6 million funding round led by Triventures could help the company in its efforts to democratize next-generation sequencing technology.

The researchers say the new study is the first to investigate aerobic system dynamics with machine learning and unsupervised wearable sensor use.

We spoke to an organizer of last week’s HLTH meeting to find out how the conference tried to bring new voices and demographics into the conference circuit.

The American Gut Project has inspired more than 10,000 people to mail fecal samples to UC San Diego. That's a good thing.