A researcher at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management has linked over 2,100 patient deaths to hospital data breaches and lack of cybersecurity.
Patients overwhelmingly take non-clinical factors of care like compassion, comfort, personality and bedside manner into account when choosing a physician, according to a report by Healthgrades and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).
Mayo Clinic and Mytonomy, a provider of cloud-based patient education and information services, announced a collaboration to develop short videos addressing questions concerning breast cancer treatment.
Monitoring medication adherence may take a step forward with smartphone apps that require patients to snap 'selfies' before and after they take medication.
Researchers at Aalto University in Finland and Japan's Kochi University of Technology have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) that takes individual patient difference into account to optimize a user interface. Findings were published March 15 in IEEE Pervasive Computing Journal.
According to the 2018 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report (PHIDBR) from Verizon, cybersecurity in healthcare falls behind other industries in being able to protect personal information.
A woman going through pregnancy shouldn’t actively avoid going to the doctor—but Allison Matthews, considered at low risk for certain complications like preeclampsia during her first pregnancy, didn’t see much benefit in shuffling to and from physicians’ offices.
Royal Philips and Innovative Imaging Technologies (IIT) have announced a partnership to integrate Philips’ Lumify portable ultrasound system and IIT’s Reacts collaborative platform for a comprehensive tele-ultrasound solution.
The new CEO of Novartis, Vas Narasimhan, is pushing the drug company to embrace artificial intelligence, telemedicine and automation as keys to its future.
In healthcare, 21 percent of employees are concerned about their job security due to the adoption of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), according to a survey conducted by MindEdge.
