Population and Public Health

Billed as more than 10 times the scale of previous endeavors, the Truveta Genome Project aims to ensure representation across ancestries, ethnicities, genders and other social drivers of health – and broaden the reach of precision medicine.

Mayo Clinic takes its artificial intelligence-powered documentation platform enterprise-wide, Google Cloud collaborates on drug repurposing AI and a government-funded infectious disease risk model aims to improve public health resilience.

Targeted by cybersecurity threat actors, providers must take extra precautions to safeguard maternal health data and ensure that they have the right levels of security, says Deepak Prakash, CTO and cofounder of Sonio.

South Korea's National Institute of Health has established a big health database that researchers can tap into to develop new technologies, says director Dr Hyun-Young Park.

Healthcare providers and IT vendors in the region have weighed in with their predictions for healthcare technology in the new year.

Besides saving significant time and cost, Taichung Veterans General Hospital also has the shortest emergency patient stay in Taiwan, shares computer and communications center director Lai-Shiun Lai.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has published updated draft recommendations to help improve the performance of pulse oximeters across skin tones.

Join the editors of Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews as they forecast new trends and developments for the year ahead: AI, cybersecurity, patient engagement, reimbursement and rev cycle, virtual care and more.

In a HIMSS25 preview, Muhammad Babar, management information systems officer for the Pakistan Ministry of Health, notes healthcare technology hurdles the ministry has faced and how it's strengthening the country's health information systems.

Also, AIIMS Delhi is setting up a hub for healthcare AI development with GE HealthCare.