“Alexa, what is Tylenol?”

Amazon’s cloud-based voice service can now answer health questions like this after partnering up with a drug and medical device knowledge company.…

GoodRx, a telemedicine platform that helps patients find the cheapest prescription drugs and discounts, has been accused of sharing patient data with technology giants, including Google and Facebook.

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More than 27 million people were affected by breaches of private health information (PHI) in 2019, according to a new report…

CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have issued their strategy to reduce the burdens clinicians face when it comes to using EHRs.

HHS released the “…

Patient privacy was under attack last year, with more than 41 million patient records breached, according to a new report from Protenus.

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Mayo Clinic is expanding its library of clinical insights by enabling other healthcare organizations to access and deliver digital content across the clinical and operational aspects of a patient care journey. Mayo Clinic has…

San Francisco-based One Medical, a membership primary care company, has launched its initial public offering with a starting share price of $14. The company expected to gain gross proceeds of $245 million.

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Humana is expanding the connectivity of its health and wellness program, Go365, by partnering up with personal health data company Validic.

Members of Go365 will be able to connect hundreds of…

Electronic health record vendor Practice Fusion has settled criminal and civil investigations with the Department of Justice for $145 million.

Practice Fusion, based in San Francisco, admitted under…

Hospitals have partnered with several technology giants, including Microsoft, IBM, Google and Amazon and handed over valuable and identifiable patient information in data deals, according to The Wall Street Journal.…

TeachAids, a nonprofit organization focused on health education, has launched a new virtual reality (VR) program that teaches young athletes how to play safe and properly diagnose and treat a concussion. …

CMS is planning to launch a simplified comparison tool for Medicare beneficiaries to find care.

The plan will tackle the differences between current available tools. For example, each of the eight…

HHS has released a draft of its five-year Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, outlining the goals, objectives and strategies for the government to pursue.

The plan was created by the Office of the…

Digital health is having a moment as a healthcare subsector, reaping in billions in funding over the last several years, but its…

Google’s DeepMind AI system is better at detecting breast cancer than human experts, according to a new study…

Electronic medical record products may have patient safety issues––even if they’re certified, according to a new study published in JAMA…

Several major technology companies have come under scrutiny for being granted…

Partners Healthcare, an integrated healthcare system founded by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, has launched a five-year, $100 million digital health initiative to provide a number of new services for…

As more technology companies are working on healthcare solutions and developing new products, health information and patient data is becoming more valuable––and hospital executives are seeing a flood for requests, according to a…

The Department of Justice will probe Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of wearables company Fitbit, The New York Post reported, citing a source close to the situation.

Google’s parent company,…

One of the nation’s largest health insurers is using AI to help persuade patients to get their seasonal flu shot, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Specifically, Humana’s AI is helping the company…