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Healthcare has undergone dramatic revolutions over the last few decades with the introduction of technology. This is especially so with the collection of medical data using everyday objects such as ...

Brazilian researchers have created an innovative and agile computational tool to link and analyze different health databases with millions of patient records. Called Tucuxi-BLAST, the platform encodes ...

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Which conditions are caused by infection? Though it may seem like an amateur concern in the era of advanced microscopy, some culprits evade conventional methods of detection. Large medical databases ...

A new study found FAIR Health outperformed other national databases as a reliable source for out-of-network physician rate benchmarking. Physicians for Fair Coverage, an alliance of multispecialty ...

Nearly half of federal health surveillance databases either stopped or delayed routine updates last year, with potentially dire consequences to public health, according to researchers. A ...

David Feinberg has worn multiple hats in his three decades in healthcare, including chief executive of major health systems UCLA and Geisinger and leader of Google Health. Most recently, Feinberg ...

Nearly a decade ago New York signed a lucrative contract with a health services firm to build a database to boost transparency on the pricing of medical procedures across health systems. It’s still ...

More than 40 million Americans' medical records have been stolen or exposed so far this year because of security vulnerabilities in electronic health care systems, a USA TODAY analysis of Health and ...