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By Laura Lovett | 05:35 pm | March 08, 2018
A recent Johns Hopkins study found that prediabetic patients who used the interactive mobile coaching program Sweetch lost weight and increased physical activity.
By Dave Muoio | 05:03 pm | March 08, 2018
It’s still the early days, but the FDA’s approval of Proteus Digital Health and Otsuka Pharmaceuticals’ Abilify MyCite has changed the discussion of digital technology in healthcare.
By Leontina Postelnicu | 04:15 pm | March 08, 2018
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica - Facebook data scandal, researchers set out a roadmap for the health and science community to restore the public's trust in big data.
By Laura Lovett | 01:23 pm | March 08, 2018
The Mayo Clinic has just released the results of a new study, which show an 80 percent increase in enrollment of clinical trials for breast cancer when using IBM’s Watson for Clinical Trial matching system.
By HIMSS TV | 08:42 pm | March 07, 2018
Claus Duedal Pederson talks about how the Danish single-payer system is leveraging technology to improve care quality.
By Dave Muoio | 06:37 pm | March 07, 2018
A cadre of Canadian digital health startups were at the forefront of a special HIMSS session organized by the Canadian government’s department of foreign affairs, trade, and development.
By Laura Lovett | 06:23 pm | March 07, 2018
The Department of Veterans Affairs has joined the bandwagon of government agencies looking for outside innovators to help update its health technology systems.
By Dave Muoio | 06:19 pm | March 07, 2018
Teams looking to AI and machine learning as a solution to their system’s problems should be reminded that the technologies are not a magic bullet, Leonard D’Avolio, cofounder of Cyft and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, said on Monday at HIMSS18.
By Dave Muoio | 04:24 pm | March 07, 2018
As virtual and augmented reality technologies continue to improve, researchers and entrepreneurs continue to investigate the role these tools may play in healthcare.