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Why Health-Tech's Sharpest Minds Still Need to Focus on the Fundamentals
"We have doctors doing life-and-death stuff every day and we've turned them into secretaries."
Need Your Docs to Adopt New Tech? First, Find Out What Motivates Them
Hospitals want to improve patient outcomes and save cash. Docs want to avoid reporting systems that pry them from their patients. It’s not an impasse.
Uber Is in Healthcare. So How Is It Handling HIPAA?
Uber Health is taking a comprehensive approach toward patient privacy. Otherwise, providers would “vote with their feet,” says one expert.
AbleTo Is Changing How We Use Behavioral Health Data
Oncology start-ups leverage data to develop predictive analytics and personalized treatments. Can therapy do the same?
Aiming for Patient Empowerment, White House Launches MyHealthEData Initiative
Announced during HIMSS 2018, the plan calls for patient access to their health records, in a push toward interoperability and value-based care.
Physicians Nationwide Again Reporting Allscripts Service Outages
As the EHR vendor celebrates its announcement of a major new partnership, physician staff across the country are again reporting service outages.
Cerner Touts Early Successes in DoD EHR Transition, but VA Deal Still in Limbo
Early returns from 4 Department of Defense facilities are out, but Veterans' Affairs officials had indicated they'd have a deal by the end of February.
Data Breach Affects 70K Tufts Health Plan Medicare Recipients
Patients were exposed by yet another snail-mail breakdown.
It Turns Out that Uber Is the Uber of Healthcare
Why the tech titan isn’t merely exploring a new space—it’s entering the care continuum.
Perfecting the Knowledge Flow for Medical AI
There are blind spots in our data-driven world, and there are some underlying weaknesses in healthcare delivery that can be traced to deficiencies in the adoption and application of new knowledge.
CMS is Leading the Way Toward Bundled Payments. Should It Be?
Bundled payments are an important part of the value-based care movement. But who is taking the lead on getting them implemented?
Phishing Emails Play on Our Fear of Failure
A new study highlights why healthcare organizations must do more than train employees to not click sketchy emailed links.
Mental Health AI Start-Up Woebot Labs Earns $8M
Why investors like the chatbot. Hint: natural language processing and cognitive behavioral therapy.
February's Reported Data Breaches (So Far): Over 140,000 Patients Potentially Impacted
More than 80% of the 140,335 affected patients had their information exposed in unauthorized access or disclosure incidents.
Algorithm-Driven Wearable Device Helped Patients Expend Less Energy
Harvard University researchers said their findings could help improve wearable robotic devices.
Pear Therapeutics and Novartis Will Collaborate on Prescription-Strength Apps
The Boston-based startup and the pharma giant will work on clinically-validated digital interventions for MS and schizophrenia.
For Some of Healthcare's Most Vexing Problems, a Venture Capitalist Looks Outside the Industry
Healthy Ventures invested $1.8 million in a clinical trial recruitment firm founded by healthcare outsiders. One of the fund's founders told HCA News why.
Trickle-Down Cyberwarfare Is Harming Just About Every Industry
But healthcare is among the hardest hit by extortion and data weaponization, according to a new report from the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
How Colossal Data Sets (and a Billion Tweets) Can Help Track Flu Outbreaks
Researchers at UChicago liken an influenza outbreak to a wildfire, and say that social connectivity is the wind that stokes it.
Striving to Commercialize CRISPR, Inscripta Lands $55M
The gene-editing start-up doesn’t demand licensing fees and royalties from academic and commercial researchers.
Bipartisan Senate Bill Seeks to Fight Opioid Abuse with E-Prescribing
"An epidemic of this magnitude requires us to address all aspects of the problem."
Genome Analysis Leads to New Insights Into Opioid Addiction
A genetic variant might be associated with opioid addiction. But it can’t yet predict outcomes for individual patients.
Contextual Genomics Gets $12M From Hong Kong Investor
How the early investment could help boost precision cancer therapies.
Defending Your Data From the Dark Overlord
No one knows who is behind the hacker collective, but hospitals must be prepared to fight these self-described “savage creatures.”
Why Data and Analytics Could See the Biggest Increase in Technology Spend in 2018
Spending on healthcare data and analytics is rising significantly, according to a recent survey. What factors are pushing the trend?
Meditech Rolls Out New Expanse EHR System
The company says the new system is “designed for the post-Meaningful Use era.”
Fitbit's Stumble Reflects a Changing Wearables Industry
Patients and physicians are more receptive to wearables than ever, but the industry's old guard have continued to see their share of the market slide.
How NLP and Genomics Can Scrape Psychiatric Insights Out of Unstructured EHR Data
A team of researchers from Harvard and Brigham and Women's says that their new methodology will be made freely available to other researchers.
The 6 Health-Tech Events You Must See at SXSW
From tech and psychedelics to virtual reality and hacks against the opioid crisis, the subjects of these sessions have drawn the interest of South by Southwest organizers.
In Cleveland, Health Tech Brings Hopes of Economic, Human Development
Economic development officials believe that if Cleveland can grow its health technology sector, it will also get the opportunity to combat health disparities.