In October 2020, the US federal government released the 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, a roadmap for federal agencies to leverage ...

Annually, over 50 million surgical procedures take place in the United States. With the incidence of new persistent opioid use ...

Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting assets and systems from digital attacks. As companies modernize and adopt new technologies, cybersecurity ...

Compared to other pathogens, viruses reproduce and mutate quickly. This adaptation allows them to spread across many hosts and evade immune system defenses. However, it ...

In late October 2020, federal government officials warned that a group of Russian hackers were planning to attack up to ...

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, protected health information (PHI) constitutes all “individually identifiable health ...

Telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support clinical health care, public health, patient health-related education, ...

In the past twelve years, over 90% of hospitals in the United States have become computerized [1]. Electronic Health Records, ...

A “digital front door” is an app that provides the first point of contact for a patient. One example is ...

As we observe artificial intelligence (AI) extending its reach into many interdisciplinary fields (well beyond that of just the technology ...

Computing technologies have become crucial to the improvement of drug research, whether through streamlining the drug design process or predicting drug targets and target-drug interactions. These ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is human-level intelligence displayed by machines (e.g. computers). One subset of AI is machine learning, the study ...

The HIPAA Privacy Rule, issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has a major goal of ...

According to a 2019 study undertaken by the Pew Research Center, seven-in-ten Americans use social media to connect with one another, ...

The field of robotics is becoming increasingly useful in the context of assisting healthcare professionals. Robots can help perform highly ...

Social media is being used today by health care practitioners mostly for marketing and research purposes, to establish professional contacts, ...

Digital health is growing and having a profound effect on health systems, impacting remote diagnostics, treatment, and better access to ...

Disruptive technology currently gathers significant influence throughout the spectrum of medicine from biomedical research to clinical practices. Advancements in technology have resulted in ...

As artificial intelligence algorithms become more refined, electronic medical records (EMRs) could become a frontier for effective and relevant applications ...

Artificial intelligence (AI), defined by the ability of a machine to simulate human cognitive functions, might be significant within the ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects over 35 million people worldwide, and as the population ages, that number is projected to increase ...