Merck relaunches diabetes management app as map4health

The app enables users to track their behavior and connect to healthcare professionals. Whether these new features will attract users in a crowded space remains to be seen.

By Nick Paul Taylor • Aug. 22, 2018

Fitbit updates wearable line with health tracking features

The newest addition includes SpO2 sensing to track changes in blood oxygenation levels, which could indicate sleep apnea or atrial defibrillation.

By Meg Bryant • Aug. 21, 2018

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Artificial intelligence

Amid mounting interest and investment in the space, it's clear AI’s applications in healthcare will only continue to grow.

By Healthcare Dive staff

Facebook, NYU team up to use AI to accelerate MRI scans

The partners want to make scans 10 times faster by using neural networks to reconstruct images.

By Nick Paul Taylor • Aug. 21, 2018

Health orgs aren't fully following IT safety advice, survey finds

Funding and personnel issues could contribute to systems not following through, according to the report published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

By Les Masterson • Aug. 20, 2018

Doctors often fail to list conflicts in device studies, JAMA report finds

Doctors got the highest payouts from Medtronic (more than $187.4 million), followed by Stryker and Intuitive Surgical, according to the JAMA analysis.

By Susan Kelly • Aug. 20, 2018

Apple may be looking to develop health chips, CNBC says

The company recently posted job notices for sensor ASIC architects and an engineer to help develop health and wellness sensors.

By Meg Bryant • Aug. 17, 2018

Geisinger and Merck launch patient communication, care delivery apps

The apps use SMART and FHIR technology to facilitate data sharing among disparate patient record systems.

By Meg Bryant • Aug. 17, 2018

Internet of medical things market to hit $158B by 2022, report predicts

However, more than seven in 10 medtech leaders feel providers are not ready to use the data generated by connected medical devices, the Deloitte analysis shows.

By Meg Bryant • Aug. 16, 2018

Best Buy snaps up health services company GreatCall for $800M

The acquisition may seem far afield for the electronics retailer, but in many ways it was "probably inevitable."

By Daphne Howland • Aug. 16, 2018

Aetna International pitches vision for interoperable health platform

The overseas wing of the health insurer thinks more stakeholders need to tackle data challenges.

By Nick Paul Taylor • Aug. 16, 2018

FDA sets out vision to use real-world data in product evaluations

The agency wants insights into safety and efficacy outside of controlled research environments.

By Nick Paul Taylor • Aug. 16, 2018

DeepMind's AI detects over 50 eye diseases with 94% accuracy, study shows

The work is a collaboration between Google's DeepMind subsidiary, Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College London to speed diagnosis and referrals for sight-threating eye diseases.

By Meg Bryant • Aug. 15, 2018

Study shows clear benefit with use of automated inpatient alerts

Patients whose doctors followed alerts had 29% fewer complications and 6.2% shorter hospital stays, according to the study.

By Meg Bryant • Aug. 15, 2018

Prior authorization moves to EHRs

Manual prior authorization can create administrative burdens for practices and hospitals, but case studies show some success in making the process electronic.

By Les Masterson • Aug. 15, 2018

Healthix switching software vendors for patient matching

The nation's largest public health information exchange will switch to software vendor Verato in a bid to improve its patient-matching capabilities.

By Susan Kelly • Aug. 15, 2018

Global EHR market on track to top $39B by 2022

Among the factors driving growth are system upgrades and vendor switches, according to a new Kalorama Research report.

By Meg Bryant • Aug. 14, 2018

Vital signs can be tampered with on hospital networks, McAfee report suggests

Undetected changes in vital signs could cause patients to get the wrong medication or undergo additional tests, according to McAfee.

By Meg Bryant • Aug. 14, 2018

Mayo Clinic tops U.S. News best hospital list for third straight year

Three of the other top five hospitals also held onto last year's ranking: Cleveland Clinic (2nd), Johns Hopkins (3rd) and Massachusetts General (4th).

By Meg Bryant • Aug. 14, 2018

Verma touts interoperability, corporate partnerships at Blue Button 2.0 conference

Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others pledged at the event they are committed to "removing barriers for the adoption of technologies for healthcare interoperability, particularly those that are enabled through the cloud and AI."

By David Lim • Aug. 14, 2018

Amazon to launch primary care clinics for employees, CNBC reports

The service will initially be offered to a select group of workers and later expanded.

By Meg Bryant • Aug. 10, 2018

Massachusetts fumbles on telehealth parity bill

Last year, the American Telemedicine Association gave the state an F on telehealth parity.

By Meg Bryant • Aug. 9, 2018

AI can save US insurers $7B in admin costs, Accenture says

The savings could stem from streamlining core functions for payers across the board, including customer service, billing, enrollment, claims and quality and compliance.

By Rebecca Pifer • Aug. 9, 2018

CHS under EHR meaningful use investigation

The Franklin, Tennessee-based provider is the latest to face scrutiny from federal investigators regarding the use of EHRs.

By Rebecca Pifer • Aug. 9, 2018

CVS rolls out virtual care offering in 9 states

The program leverages Teladoc's technology platform and is available through the CVS app.

By Meg Bryant • Aug. 9, 2018

Zocdoc steps back on pricing change amid physician pushback

Doctors filed an online petition demanding the online care-scheduling startup drop a planned booking fee for new patients.

By Meg Bryant • Aug. 8, 2018