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Hackers are increasingly targeting healthcare, with 176.4 million patient medical records exposed over the last 8 years, per a new study

Text notifications can help people receiving surgery

Patients who used a digital asthma monitoring system had 54% fewer asthma-related emergency department visits over 1 year.

Using more than 470,000 chest X-rays, researchers built an artificial intelligence system that cut the average time needed to process the images from 11 days to fewer than 3.

For the first time, researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting that when pharma companies market opioids directly to doctors, there are increased rates of opioid overdoses.

In disasters, emergency responders often ignore or incorrectly use triage methods meant to ensure victims are treated efficiently

A new deep-learning algorithm was trained on more than 60,000 cervical images from a National Cancer Institute archive

A new prescription digital treatment called "Project: EVO" could help children with autism and ADHD improve cognitive control

A cancer center used patient and doctor feedback to cut the number of opioids prescribed

Of 370,000 patients with Type 2 diabetes, roughly 10% were deemed to be measuring their blood sugar too often, a new study finds

Wait times for autism diagnostic clinics can last a year or more

More 25% physicians said they are battling at least one symptom of burnout, a new study finds

Researchers used 158,323 chest radiographs from 3 health systems to test whether an AI system could detect pneumonia

Machine learning algorithms outperformed the clinical reference tool in terms of predicting complications after cardiothoracic surgery

HIV self-testing could cut the number of undiagnosed at-risk people with the virus, but counseling and interpretation support is often lacking

Over 8 years, healthcare data breaches affected 164 million patients

The US government spent $27 billion to get hospitals and doctors adopt electronic health records

Medicare fraud eats $19 billion to $65 billion per year

As genetic data grow more important to medicine, privacy issues arise

Physicians with burnout are twice as likely to be involved in patient safety incidents, twice as likely to deliver sub-optimal care due to low professionalism and three times more likely to receive low satisfaction ratings from patients…

In spring 2015, Liberia suffered a deadly Ebola outbreak

Medical scribes result in a "significant reduction" in the time doctors spend writing and editing clinical notes, a new study finds

Hackers are increasingly targeting healthcare, with 176.4 million patient medical records exposed over the last 8 years, per a new study

When doctors consulted with specialists via videoconferencing, survival rates for patients improved, a study of 62,000 people found

Psychiatrists are using VR to submerge patients in virtual worlds that allow them to face their fears without consequence

Wearable tech has enabled a real-time, objective look into health problems facing medical residents

A new smart wristband can count the number of blood cells in the user and measure toxins in the air

Seizure-prediction tools work for only some of the 65 million people with epilepsy

The first FDA-approved autonomous AI diagnostic system works without assistance from doctors

Antibiotic-resistant superbugs have infected an estimated 2 million people

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