Individuals with anxiety or social disorders such as Asperger syndrome experience difficulties communicating with others. Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) have developed a wearable device capable of predicting if conversations are happy, sad or neutral to improve communication.

There are guidelines about how many hours interns and more senior residents can work in a day or week. Many, however, go past those limits and lie about it.

Lower inpatient admission rates at hospitals seemed to correlate to higher rates of unexpected deaths within seven days of discharge from an emergency department, according to a new study published in BMJ.

Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini said the uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its insurance marketplace is too big of a risk for his company, saying it has “no intention of being in the market for 2018.”

A day after Senate Democrats boycotted a confirmation vote for President Donald Trump’s nominee for HHS Secretary, the Senate Finance Committee move the nomination to the full Senate anyway by suspending the typical committee procedures. 

HHS has appointed Christopher Wlaschin, a retired Navy commander, as its new chief information security officer.

The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today that Nebraska Medicine will integrate POC Advisor™ into clinical workflows to improve sepsis outcomes. POC Advisor uses real-time clinical surveillance and analytics to deliver highly accurate sepsis alerts and patient-specific treatment advice to clinicians at the point of care.

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