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Companies face challenges, from courting customers to charming regulators.

From CVS and Aetna to Penn State Health and Humana, these moves made waves in December.

The experts have weighed in. These are the healthtech companies that won 2017.

Hype, reality, mental health diagnoses, ethical concerns, and more.

2017 produced a series of important interoperability stories that will spill into 2018, and well beyond.

Start-ups, venture capital funds, and research centers, oh my.

“Magical thinking won’t improve our health care system,” a pair of Harvard health economists write in a new commentary.

Why Frost & Sullivan expects the genome-editing technology to be a financial boon.

The bill would give medical clearinghouses some HIPAA exemptions, allowing them to give patients access to their EHRs—and charge a fee to do so.

Artificial intelligence was more likely than humans to advocate for electronic cigarette use, a new study found.

The 2 technologies can be made harmonious, but only if proactively guided by human physicians.

A new survey suggests executives are most concerned about ransomware in 2018, and email is the biggest vulnerability.

Experts say it would improve EHR patient safety, costing $20 million in the first 5 years.

A $3.6M government grant is funding University of Michigan’s potentially game-changing project.

Why the venture capital firm is betting on the “ability to engineer biology.”

Machine learning can reduce the physical risks of manual labor—not by replacing humans but by teaching them to work smarter.

Activbody is donating 200 data-driven mobile health devices to children in New York.

The overall impact of the ban was heterogeneous, but non-reputable drug retailers did suffer most from the action.

The drumbeat of consolidation continues to pound steadily in the healthcare market.

Its flagship analytics platform is built to crunch unused data to optimize the drug manufacturing process.

The global cyberattack infected computers in hospitals and elsewhere, costing billions of dollars, in May.

The collaboration will aim to encourage value-based, community-minded healthcare.

The world has known for months that the Department of Veterans' Affairs would be moving its EHR operations to Cerner's platform, but until recently, details were scant.

The CDC says it learned crucial lessons after prior storms.

The American Health Information Management Association's tips range from basics like encryption to concepts like a cybersecurity "State of the Union."

Because a fifth of all microbiology technologists will reach retirement by 2022, laboratories will need new tools to multiply their labor.

Why the United States might want to look abroad for ideas to improve training protocols.

Apps and other tools can ensure the safety of medications that typically require a prescription, the commissioner said.

Electronic medical records have become a valuable commodity for criminals on the dark web. The problem might get worse before it gets better.

The healthcare system’s average “door-to-needle” time is now 34 minutes, a decrease of nearly 20 minutes.