HCA News Staff

What is digital health to you? A social science? Patient-centric? Our 4 KOL's have some differing views.

What do you think health systems must consider if they want to take on a big data initiative?

How are regulations hindering innovation in healthcare?

How can we use technology to build the hospital of the future?

With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, how will it affect the evolution of medicine?

Based on the limited IQ of humans, can artificial intelligence (AI) be trained to be smarter than people?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven to be a useful tool for physicians. Can AI take their role in the future?

Machine learning and artificial intelligence could usher in the future of medicine, but are they being utilized to their full potential?

The new owners plan to merge athenahealth and Virence Health to create a “leading” health IT company.

Will big data leave game-changing insights in its wake, or will it overwhelm an already overburdened healthcare system?

Big data yields big insights, big value, and a big competitive edge. How can we incentivize collectors to share it?

Four top health tech experts discuss the looming potential and limitations of big data capture, and what it means for healthcare.

Five of the brightest minds in health tech offer five unique perspectives on the short- and long-term moves that matter most for the modern hospital exec.

How valuable is a physician’s time? Is there a decent ROI for having them dedicate a sizable chunk to advising innovation teams? Should innovation teams be in-house or outsourced?

We can make sense of the constant push and pull between physicians, executives, pharma, technocrats, government agencies and more.

Forget the complaints – healthcare does plenty of things right, too. So where should hospitals bow to disruption, and where should they double down their efforts?

Technology and medicine aren't just crossing paths, they're converging. What does a happy medium look like?

"The point here is that if you're a disruptor, you better be solving a real problem. You don't lead with the technology first."

Disruption is a difficult game, especially for healthcare startups, whose innovative ideas are a dime a dozen, but whose implementation strategies are often murky at best.

On the flip side, current incentives are driving many of healthcare's worst behaviors.

These days it seems like everyone has set their sights on disrupting healthcare. Who's really making news, and who's just making noise?

Will physicians always be the ultimate arbiters of patient care, or does their humanness leave aspects of their workflow better served by artificial intelligence?

Despite it's long-term benefits, new tech inherently disrupts physicians' workflows. How can health execs overcome this cultural resistance?

Health systems are leaving a lot of value on the table when it comes to engaging their patients. What tools will improve the patient experience, and keep patients invested in improving their health?

Healthcare stands on the precipice of a digital revolution. Who will help usher in the new era it so sorely needs?

The week’s health-tech news that you can’t miss.

The agency says it’s all about empowering patients, providers and data sharing.

Could healthcare’s big moment of disruption come from within?

Kevin Campbell, M.D., will lead a webinar on data, value and precision cardiovascular medicine.

Ethics, interoperability, and the wearables revolution dominated our reading (and listening) this week.