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By Mike Miliard | 03:44 pm | September 08, 2016
By combining Dragon Medical and Imprivata Cortext, the companies can offer a speaker-adaptive engine, custom vocabularies, built-in visualization, voice navigation and other features.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:32 am | September 08, 2016
The $8.2 million deal with Moderna aims to accelerate the development of vaccine technology and is expected to be faster than other approaches in developing vaccines.
By Mike Miliard | 08:42 am | September 08, 2016
These approaches have enormous potential to enable clinicians, doctors and researchers to spot patterns in existing data sets. We take a look at the two styles and what they mean to healthcare organizations.
By Bernie Monegain | 02:46 pm | September 07, 2016
The funding will help speed the development of a new test that uses digital images of a biopsy slide to detect Barrett’s Esophagus, a condition that can lead to cancer, the companies said.
By Gus Venditto | 05:06 pm | September 06, 2016
A team at Houston Methodist believes it has developed an artificial intelligence software program that can improve mammography readings to 99 percent accuracy by analyzing the free form text of clinical reports.
By Kaiser Health News | 11:25 am | September 06, 2016
The FDA has approved more generics the past few years, but a flood of new applications has steadily added to the demand. And critics say getting generic alternatives to the U.S. market for products like EpiPen is still taking far too long.
By Eric Bailey | 10:28 am | September 06, 2016
Harun Rashid, CIO of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, describes how new patient engagement initiatives at his organization are helping patients, parents and care teams improve treatment plans together.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:11 am | September 02, 2016
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said that if the work advances and is approved quickly clinical trials could begin in the U.S. next year.
By Jessica Davis | 03:20 pm | September 01, 2016
The West Virginia and Kentucky health system announced a cyberattack over the weekend, but has yet to determine the cause. The situation is testing just how long a hospital can survive when clinicians and operations are running on pencil and paper.
By Jack McCarthy | 10:28 am | September 01, 2016
Congress is set to vote on a $1.1 billion package the day it returns from summer vacation but whether Democrats and Republicans can immediately compromise remains to be seen. The Zika virus, meanwhile, continues to spread in Florida.