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Can a Scalable Model for Improving Community Health Emerge from the Desert?
A group in Utah wants to improve social determinants of health in two cities — and then everywhere else.
Apple Unveils Health-Heavy Smartwatch with EKG Reader
The new Apple Watch uses technology approved by the FDA.
Pursuing Interoperability Disruption, Akiri Taps Kaiser Permanente Vet as CEO
The startup is the first project backed by Health2047, the American Medical Association’s innovation arm.
OIG Recommends FDA Place Greater Focus on Med-Tech Cybersecurity
The regulator agreed with the report’s three premarket review recommendations.
Clarify Health Lands $57M in Quest to Optimize Healthcare
The company hopes to accomplish this through a real-time care guidance platform.
AI's Role in the Push for Suicide Prevention
Data, access and money challenges face mental healthcare, but there is some promising new tech.
EHRs Can Be Dangerous. Are New Guidelines Necessary?
EHR customization and poor training can result in problems, causing experts to call for change.
In the US, Healthcare Data Access Is a Scavenger Hunt
As researchers use big data to improve health, they’re bumping up against the hard limits of a fragmented healthcare system.
Lyft Strikes Patient Ride Deal, Expanding Healthcare Footprint
This is the startup’s latest step into the care continuum.
How the FDA Is Trying to Promote Med-Tech Innovation
It’s all about insurance coverage and scientific rigor.
5 Steps to Prepare for Communication Challenges After a Data Breach
Healthcare is a major hacking target. Get ready before things get messy.
Stop Preventing the Future, Start Preventing the Unhealthy with AI
Don’t let fear stop healthcare from evolving.
5 Reasons Why Health IT Teams Should Consider a Managed Services Partner
Data complexity is a serious problem that requires a serious solution.
5 Health-Tech Stories Explore Medicine's Great Frontiers
Artificial intelligence, disruption and genetic data might all have huge consequences for your health system.
Taking a Data-Driven, Multidisciplinary Approach to Radiology Research
Can this Georgia Tech lab improve the economics of radiology and inform healthcare policy?
Empowering Patients Through Greater Price Transparency in the EHR
How embedded pharma education can help drive improved medication adherence.
Interoperability and Tech: Death of the Small Practice
What’s impeding interoperability and hurting small healthcare orgs? And how can they overcome these challenges?
Podcast: Can Outside Disruption Save Healthcare?
Disrupters like Google and Microsoft are a symptom of healthcare's inherent problems. But in this case, the symptom might be the cure.
New Tech Uses Smartphone Camera to Determine Whether Mosquitoes Carry Disease, Biopesticide
The diagnostic tool could improve public health efforts at a critical time.
Questions Surround 23andMe's Decision to Cut Off Developers from Its API
The move has earned the genetic testing company praise and backlash. What can we make of it?
Wearables Spotlight Health Challenges Facing Medical Residents
Real-time data suggest interns lost three hours of sleep per week.
Baby Boomers and a Physician Shortage Could Hammer Healthcare. Can Telehealth Help?
How new models can help healthcare in a moment of crisis.
Tempus Just Got $110M and a $2B Valuation
Its data-driven push toward precision medicine is working. Why?
The Numbers Behind the First FDA-Approved Autonomous AI Diagnostic System
IDx’s tech brings diabetic retinopathy detection to primary care.
Bad for Healthcare: 1 in 50 Emails Contains a Malicious Link
Phishing causes some of healthcare’s worst data breaches.
Battle Brews as AMA, 150 Health Groups Oppose CMS Payment Rate Proposal
But the healthcare organizations applaud cutting documentation requirements.
Why High-Tech, High-Touch Healthcare Is Crucial for Delivering Patient Value
Digital solutions can’t solve this problem without some help from humanity.
$4.9B Acquisition Births a Health IT Powerhouse
Verscend Technologies today completed its purchase of Cotiviti Holdings.
How a Dubai Startup Is Trying to Shake Up the Annual Physical
AiPods enable users to obtain a wide array of personal health data in less than 10 minutes.
How Telemedicine Affects the Finances of Acute Stroke Care Management
Strokes cost an estimated $34 billion in the US every year. A large portion of that price tag is preventable.