Cyberattack stalls prescription dispensing at UnitedHealth
Feb 27, 2024
This latest cyberattack underscores the vulnerability of healthcare data, particularly the privacy of patients’ personal information.
FDA warns of smartwatches that claim to measure glucose levels
Feb 22, 2024
Many companies are illegally marketing smartwatch or smart ring devices that claim to measure blood glucose without piercing the skin.
Palliative telecare team aids QOL, health status for chronic conditions
Jan 23, 2024
The findings were for veterans with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure or interstitial lung disease.
Dana Farber Cancer Center to retract or fix dozens of studies
Jan 23, 2024
(HealthDay News) — The prestigious Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston will retract six studies and correct 31 more as part of an ongoing investigation into claims of data manipulation. The action...
Telemedicine has declined since pandemic, but video encounters still frequent
Jan 22, 2024
“Although these nationwide trends can inform research and policy, they obscure disparities in access to and use of telemedicine that disproportionately affect older adults, individuals in rural regions...
AI can improve identification of social determinants of health in EHRs
Jan 12, 2024
93.8% of patients with adverse social determinants of health were identified with large language models.