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He can’t confirm or deny whether he’s a robot, but he emphasized public health and said this was a "defining moment" for new technologies.

Looking to grow its consumer-facing Health Nucleus platform, the genomics company announced a $25,000 plan that includes MRIs and a battery of other tests.

Why the health-tech start-up True Reply is donating $10 for every ether raised.

Under Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, the agency has made a concerted effort to move towards a less cumbersome, technology-friendly, risk-based approach.

The 20-year-old nonprofit has fears about an increasingly consolidated, vertically integrated healthcare industry.

But after they saw the numbers, physicians wrote fewer opioid prescriptions, a new study found.

"The majority of available user interfaces are targeted at average users. This one-size-fits-all thinking does not consider individual differences in abilities," Jussi Jokinen, PhD, said.

According to 2 clinicians, docs today face "maddening" alerts and a "Sisyphean" inbox. They offer 5 suggestions for how that can be fixed.

A look at the half-dozen names that have come up as the embattled Secretary's potential replacement.

A new smartwatch/atrial fibrillation study showed some encouraging results, but it came with some sizable asterisks.

Why telehealth could help the CDC and other healthcare stakeholders decimate the disease.

Researchers sought to find synonymous terms in patient records generated by physicians and nurses. Instead, they came across a glaring gap.

“People may assume that they are being provided accurate medical grade testing, so understandably do not go to the trouble and expense of seeking confirmation.”

"Even the term ‘concierge medicine’ we think is problematic. Our best shot might be ‘personal online doctor.’ 'Telehealth' is not the right word."

Jefferson College of Population Health Dean David Nash, MD, explains the facts and why they matter.

Hint: The finding relied on medical information from more than 46,000 Geisinger patients.

Believe it or not, healthcare data professionals can learn a lot from the IKEA horse meatball incident.

Can the company carve its own lane in the benefits navigation space by focusing on employers?

This year’s meeting focused heavily on the need for grassroots efforts to improve health in communities.

No shiny object can distract from the fact that a happy workforce is every exec’s best asset.

How the statewide HIE is slated to improve data aggregation, interoperability, and care.

A Verizon study concluded that healthcare is the only industry whose biggest threat is internal. Here’s how health systems can prepare.

The public health community ignores 3 important questions, according to the Dean of the College of Population Health.

Average lifespan in the West Side is 69 years. “That was the lifespan in the 1950s,” according to Darlene Oliver Hightower. “That’s the lifespan in Iraq.”

The 3-hospital system in New York has instituted downtime protocols. What would your organization do?

The disrupter hopes the initiative will help foster better data sharing across the healthcare system.

"Where do you think most of the health issues are? We have to first acknowledge that it, in fact, occurred.”

Vaccination rates soared during the study. But can the program work for the rural US?

What might this means of data generation teach medicine about drugs?

It wants the communities it serves to be 20% healthier by 2020.