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Can Artificial Intelligence Boost Mental Healthcare Accessibility? 

January 28, 2022 - According to MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers, artificial intelligence could improve the accessibility of mental healthcare. The investigation was led by MIT Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Rosalind Picard and Associate Director of the Depression Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital Paola...

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ONC Projects Aim to Standardize SDOH Data for Precision Medicine

by Jessica Kent

The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) is working to standardize the collection of social determinants of health data to help advance precision medicine and inform new treatments. Information...

Could Artificial Intelligence Do More Harm Than Good in Healthcare?

by Jessica Kent

In recent years, artificial intelligence has rapidly become the chief topic of conversation among healthcare executives, vendors, and IT developers.  Experts at organizations across the care...

AMA Launches Data Management Model for Blood Pressure Devices

by Jessica Kent

The Integrated Health Model Initiative (IHMI), an effort funded by the American Medical Association (AMA), has launched a new data management model that will be able to produce an uninterrupted stream...

Walgreens, Google’s Verily Partner on Chronic Disease Management

by Jennifer Bresnick

Walgreens Boots Alliance and Verily, a healthcare company owned by Google’s parent entity Alphabet, have announced a collaboration on multiple projects intended to improve chronic disease...

FDA: Medical Device Innovation Can Combat the Opioid Crisis

by Jessica Kent

Combating the opioid epidemic will require advanced medical devices and sophisticated data analytics that can help detect and treat abuse, FDA officials wrote in a recent blog post. Opioid abuse is...

Cigna Targets Data Analytics Innovation with $250M Venture Fund

by Jennifer Bresnick

Cigna is planning to invest $250 million dollars in a new venture fund that will foster innovations around big data analytics, digital health strategies, and care management improvements. The new...

Humana Creates New Data Analytics, Digital Health Division

by Jennifer Bresnick

Humana has announced the launch of a new data analytics and digital health division, called Humana Studio H, which will focus on developing data-driven products and services for use across the entire...

Apple Explores Medical Data with Health Records API, Patents

by Jennifer Bresnick

Apple is quickly working to position itself as a leader in the race between consumer technology giants looking to harness the nearly-untapped power of medical data.  With players such as Google,...

New AHA Digital Tool Offers Chronic Disease Screening Services

by Jessica Kent

The American Heart Association (AHA) is working to improve community health with its Health Screening Services, which will allow consumers to identify potential chronic disease risks and inspire them...

ONC Health Data Resource Enhances Patient Data Sharing, Access

by Jessica Kent

ONC has released the ONC Guide to Getting and Using Your Health Records, an online resource that will inform patients, parents, and caregivers on how to access and share their health data and further...

Adopting Big Data Analytics, Precision Medicine Drives Quality Care

by Jessica Kent

The successful adoption of technological innovations in big data analytics, precision medicine, and digital health will increase quality care, according to a health policy statement from the American...

Artificial Intelligence Mobile Coach Can Aid Diabetes Care

by Jessica Kent

At-risk diabetes patients using a mobile health coach driven by artificial intelligence lost similar amounts of weight to patients participating in face-to-face interventions, according to a study...

40% of CIOs to Deploy a Healthcare Analytics Platform in 2018

by Jessica Kent

Forty percent of hospital CIOs plan to make launching of enterprise healthcare analytics platforms a top priority in 2018, according to a Spok survey of CHIME members. The survey results indicate that...

430M Internet of Things Devices Means a Healthcare Big Data Tsunami

by Jennifer Bresnick

By 2022, manufacturers will be shipping out 430 million Internet of Things devices each year, predicts a new report from Tractica, leaving healthcare providers little time to prepare for a massive...

IoT, Analytics, HIM Push Healthcare IT VC Market Past $5B

by Jennifer Bresnick

Venture capital investors are seeing major opportunities to support innovations that connect patients, providers, and their data more efficiently, says Mercom Capital Group in its annual healthcare IT...

Can Healthcare Exploit the $7 Trillion Internet of Everything?

by Jennifer Bresnick

Over the past few years, the Internet of Things has piqued the healthcare industry’s interest as providers continue the search for nimble, accessible, and engaging big data tools to streamline the...

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