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ICD-10 Change Aims to Streamline Social Determinants of Health Documentation
The old rule led to the valuable codes being underused.
Hoping to Foster More Doctor-Patient Time, CMS Proposes Billing Changes
The agency said the rules would expand healthcare access and lower drug costs.
Rage Against the Machines
Preserving the art of nursing in a high-tech age.
Automated Benchmarking Delivers Performance Transparency of Post-Acute Care Facilities
Why manual benchmarking hurts patients and hospitals.
Fitbit Shows Promise in Tracking Performance, Predicting Cancer Outcomes
Cedars-Sinai and Johns Hopkins researchers performed the wearables study.
Cass Regional Ransomware Attack Affects EHR, Trauma Care
The medical center is recovering, but the effects represent an industrywide fear.
$1.5 Trillion for Disruption? Amazon, Google, Silicon Valley Try to Upend Healthcare
Innovators are monetizing data and fostering value-based care.
Smart Bandage Can Sense Wound Healing, Administer Drugs
Why the microprocessor-driven tech could be a game changer.
The Rising Clamor for Explainable AI
Making AI transparent could head off public mistrust.
A High-Tech Day for the FDA Emphasizes Its Digital Shift
Two mHealth approvals provide a snapshot of the agency’s evolution.
Digital Health Isn't a Technological Revolution. It's a Cultural One.
Why healthcare is looking at the digital transformation the wrong way.
Speech-Recognition Software Alone Is Too Imprecise to Rely Upon
A new study found that manual editing is critical.
The Latest Startup to Win Big Bucks for Predictive Tech: Potrero Medical
How the health-tech company plans to use its $26.6 million.
How Extended Reality Is Changing Cardiology
Virtual reality does more than improve medical education.
Mayo Clinic Is Partnering With a Startup to Make Blockchain Work for Healthcare
Can Mayo and Medicalchain find the elusive key to success?
Is TEFCA Just Kicking the Can Down the Patient Matching Road?
Why referential matching could prove beneficial to health systems.
How Telemedicine Helps Victims Heal After Tragedies
Providers like MDLIVE and the VA highlight the promise of digital behavioral health treatment.
A Computer Model of the Retina Reveals Some of the Eye's Architecture
Advanced tech continues to focus on the retina.
What Rural Health Facilities Need to Survive in 2018 and Beyond
There’s no time like now for rural healthcare providers to consider ways to strengthen their practices.
Record-Breaking $3.4B Fuels Digital Health in First Half of 2018
Why investors are committing to healthcare’s digital transformation.
Johnson & Johnson, Mercy Team Up to Analyze Medical Devices With Real-World Data
Why the FDA might look favorably upon such efforts.
Data Breaches on the Rise: How Healthcare Organizations Can Protect Against Medical Identity Theft
Fraud can jeopardize patient safety.
Making Tele-Behavioral Health a Success in Hospital Settings
Health systems can even use the tech to help patients caught in the opioid crisis.
Targeting Diabetes with Big Data, Machine Learning, Real-Time Informatics
How cutting-edge research into tech and diabetes rocked ADA 2018.
Dark Web Opioid Sales Climb After DEA Painkiller Restriction
Exploring the digital ripple effects of an attempt to address a public-health problem.
Can Tech Help Patients Better Understand How to Lose Weight?
Americans have inflated confidence in their knowledge of diet and weight loss.
Podcast: Rural Healthcare's High-Tech Hope
How one man is making Oklahoma the Silicon Valley of Health Data Analytics.
Understanding Healthcare's New Life Savers, Data Scientists
But medicine is competing with every other industry for these valuable employees.
5 Must-Read Stories From the Week in Health Tech
Predictive algorithms, GE Healthcare, IBM Watson, and more.
With $1B Purchase of PillPack, Amazon Fulfills Its Pharmacy Destiny
The acquisition answers a longstanding question.
