The American Medical Association (AMA) is calling on CMS and ONC to implement stricter data privacy controls in their health IT proposals.
In comments submitted to CMS, AMA responded to the...
By now, it seems that every player in the healthcare industry recognizes the impact social determinants have on overall health.
The circumstances in which individuals live, work, and play have a...
The NCI-MATCH precision medicine clinical trial, co-led by the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), has released findings revealing that a particular drug...
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and Johns Hopkins Medicine have launched a new data analytics tool to support precision medicine research and enhance care...
With the healthcare industry embracing a comprehensive, holistic approach to patient care, more organizations are seeking to improve their population health management efforts. While providers, payers,...
UCLA Health is deploying cloud computing services, powered by artificial intelligence, to advance precision medicine research and improve patient care.
The cloud computing services, provided by...
Countless studies have shown the many ways artificial intelligence could transform the medical imaging field.
From detecting lung cancer as well as human radiologists to predicting kidney function...
Mount Sinai has created a new chief data officer position to advance data-driven research, discovery, and patient care.
The institution has named Andrew Kasarskis, PhD as executive vice president and...
Although most Medicare ACOs are leveraging data analytics to inform their care coordination and population health efforts, many are also struggling with issues of data completeness and collection,...
Mutations that lie outside actual genes and in vast stretches of DNA are known to contribute to autism spectrum disorder, but scientists have struggled to translate the effects of these mutations on a...
Using real-time data to improve patient safety and clinical decision support can lead to workflow and data quality issues, according to a study published in JMIR.
The digitization of healthcare...
A pain management program aimed at urologic cancer patients who underwent robotic surgery resulted in just eight percent going home with opioid prescriptions after discharge, compared to 100 percent of...
Individuals’ social determinants of health, including education level, income, diet, and exercise, were strongly associated with the development of a chronic disease, suggesting that providers...
Kaiser Permanente has awarded over $20 million to programs that address and support young people’s social determinants of health.
The grants will go to community-based and national charitable...
FDA is working to eliminate health disparities in clinical trials, research, and treatments of chronic, debilitating diseases.
The agency needs to increase equity across the care continuum, stated a...
A deep learning tool built by researchers at Google detected lung cancer as well as or better than human radiologists, showing the potential for AI to boost chances of survival for patients at...
Using machine learning to analyze big data in the EHR revealed four subtypes of sepsis, showing that sepsis patients could benefit from different types of treatment instead of a one-size-fits-all...
Researchers at Intermountain Healthcare are using predictive analytics to develop risk scores for patients with COPD, which could help physicians provide better care at the end of life.
The...
A natural language processing tool was able to analyze notes in the EHR and identify prostate cancer patients experiencing social isolation, revealed a study conducted at the Medical University of...
The Penn Medicine Institute for Biomedical Informatics has released a free, open-source automated machine learning system for data analysis.
The team developed the system so that anyone can use it,...
