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Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 04:59 pm | November 05, 2018
The Attorney General also banned the former business associate of Virtua Medical Group from doing business in the state for accidentally uploading 1,654 patient files to an FTP server left open to the public.
Artificial Intelligent
By Mike Miliard | 04:14 pm | November 05, 2018
A Chinese company, working with researchers in Sichuan and Boston, says its algorithm – similar to that enabling self-driving vehicles – could be a second set of eyes for polyp detection.
Population Health
By Leontina Postelnicu | 08:05 am | November 05, 2018
Public Health England will bring together a group of experts to scale up the agency's work on "predictive prevention", enabling people to take greater control of their health and care through personalised advice and interventions, according to a new policy paper released this week.
Analytics
By Mike Miliard | 01:00 am | November 05, 2018
AI, machine learning, cognitive computing, neural networks? Supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised? Object recognition, natural language processing? What does it all mean?
Connected Health
By Dean Koh | 05:42 am | November 04, 2018
In July 2018, IDC Thailand named Khon Kaen as having the most outstanding smart-city project in APAC excluding Japan, alongside Phuket.
By Laura Lovett | 05:57 pm | November 02, 2018
Both the clinician and the patient hold an important piece to the care puzzle, according to Kristina Sheridan, head of the enterprise strategy and transformation department at the nonprofit MITRE Corporation.
By Laura Lovett | 05:43 pm | November 02, 2018
MIT's Cynthia Breazeal is developing "social robots" that could help care for patient's emotional wellbeing.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 04:27 pm | November 02, 2018
Introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden, the Consumer Data Protection Act overhauls internet privacy protections and gives FTC the authority to create standards and penalize law-breakers.
Telehealth
By Bill Siwicki | 02:39 pm | November 02, 2018
Central Island Healthcare now is able to regularly treat common ailments among residents such as hypertension, fever, chest pain and COPD in place, rather than sending patients to an emergency room.
By Jeff Lagasse | 02:30 pm | November 02, 2018
There are a lot more blockchain jobs today than there were at this time last year and plenty of those are coming to healthcare, according to Glassdoor.