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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 ...

In 2025, CDC databases faced unexplained pauses, affecting public health decision-making and transparency, with vaccination data particularly impacted. Factors contributing to these pauses included ...

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 ...

Last week at Oracle CloudWorld, co-founder and CTO of Oracle, laid the foundations for the company’s healthcare vision. They’re ambitious, but can it overcome the hurdles? (Image taken by author at ...

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 ...