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The state Department of Commerce’s Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy is working with an AI-powered health platform to support faster prescription renewals for state residents with chronic conditions. -
Medicare began covering telemedicine services during the COVID-19 pandemic and has maintained the popular offering through temporary waivers approved by Congress since.
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Double-digit premium increases are leading to an outcry that the Affordable Care Act is not working, yet parts of it are. Here’s what works, and ideas on how to fix what doesn't. -
Do agile development principles have a place in upcoming state IT projects?
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Ownership of health data, cost of health care and other issues are rising almost as fast as technological advances that are transforming the industry.
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Mine communications are complex, slow and unreliable. The solution to keeping miners safe, and rescuing them when disaster strikes, might just be in their hands already.
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Charges that manufacturers or marketers improperly promoted non-FDA-approved uses of products or that companies failed to tell the FDA about “device-related safety concerns” as federal regulations require are a few things that might be reported.
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Brilliant men and women showcased how they're looking at developing and applying different types of technology in fundamentally new ways at the Emtech conference at MIT's Media Lab.
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The chief medical officer of UnitedHealth Group said the health insurer formed its Optum Labs subsidiary in cooperation with the Mayo Clinic several years ago to address the need to bring together disparate sets of data and see what insights emerge.
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St. Jude confirmed that it is evaluating new internet videos purporting to demonstrate four cyber vulnerabilities of its implantable devices.
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Medical devices could theoretically be hacked to secretly transmit patients' health and financial data outside the hospital, where it could be exploited for identity theft. And the FDA wants cooperation to thwart such attacks.
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Officials with the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) said that metro area counties will pilot the new crisis line within a year before it is implemented statewide by 2018 or 2019.
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Instruments will measure water temperature, salinity, oxygen content, pH, clarity and, eventually, levels of nitrogen pollution. The data will be transmitted directly to an EPA website being designed for the average person to understand.
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Such systems, known as predictive analytics, aim to make health care more efficient and effective by opening the door to addressing medical issues before they become serious problems -- but do they threaten patient privacy?
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One letter sent to the state in September says staff with the federal Food and Nutrition Service had noted "serious issues" with the new United Health Infrastructure Project, dubbed RIBridges, and with "business processes."
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When hepatitis breaks out, time is critical for curbing an epidemic.
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Improved autonomous vehicle technology could reduce the tens of thousands of annual U.S. deaths due to human error behind the wheel. Are driverless cars the next big public health intervention?
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