Patients with acute pancreatitis may benefit from a screening for pancreatic cancer after a study found mounting evidence for a link between the two conditions. Banke Agarwal, MD, of Saint Louis...
UT Southwestern Medical Center has received a $5 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to establish their own Center for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research to support...
One isn’t just the loneliest number: it can also be a deadly one. Seniors who expressed feelings of extreme loneliness and social isolation had a 14% higher risk of dying prematurely than socially...
Nine providers are being recognized by HHS and the CDC for their fight against uncontrolled hypertension after winning the 2013 Million Hearts Hypertension Control Challenge. With more than 8.3...
Population health management requires providers to pinpoint the needs of individuals by reading the patterns created by tens of thousands of similar cases using algorithms and intelligent prediction...
Providers and pharmaceutical researchers at major academic institutions and medical centers are coming together to share the costs and quicken the pace of medical research. As part of the Partnership...
A colorectal cancer risk calculator developed by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute has been published online in order to help physicians target the right patients for...
The University at Buffalo, part of New York State’s SUNY system, has partnered with the recently formed New York Genome Center (NYGC), located in Manhattan, to advance research into genomics and...
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is planning a major new project to bring staggering amounts of cancer research data to the cloud. The Cancer Genome Atlas, anticipated to be 2.5 petabytes in size,...
One of the largest one-time research donations ever made will help six major academic medical institutions discover new methods of treating and preventing cancer. Johns Hopkins University, Harvard...
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is prescribing a financial shot in the arm for medical research this month after announcing an enormous grant to fund a brand new clinical...
The Kurt+Peter Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to research into Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy, Type 2C, also known as gamma sarcoglycanopathy (LGMD2C), has announced the formation of the first...
Healthcare is on the right track with its push towards data analytics, population health, and information sharing, according to the Intel Healthcare Innovation Barometer survey. Patients are eager to...
Professors at the University of Pittsburgh have digitized more than 87 million hand-written patient records from the last century in order to construct analytical models of the spread of infectious...
Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and John Thune (R-SD) have introduced a new bill to make Medicare data more transparent, allowing researchers, health plans, and providers to gain better insight into...
If there’s one patient bracket that gets population health managers nervous, it’s the ever-expanding number of baby boomers eligible for Medicare. How can providers track, manage, connect, and...
Nearly 100 providers in Rhode Island have a big problem on their hands. UnitedHealthcare of New England has decided to eliminate dozens of physicians from the payer’s Medicare Advantage offerings,...
The universal language of mathematics has plenty of potential to bring minds together, but there’s one number in healthcare that divides opinions faster than saying one plus one equals three. The...
At its heart, healthcare is an intensely personal experience. A physician and a patient in a closed room, discussing intimate details of health and behavior rarely shared outside that particular...
Sometimes having a lot of data can pose a problem instead of helping find the solution. When it comes to genetics, this is often the case. When trying to find a single trait to determine the...
