BOSTON--Bill Evans’ own healthcare experience only served to strengthen his work on IBM Watson Health and its potential benefits to all patients. 

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts has signed into law a new bill (LB 817) allowing medical practitioners to offer direct primary care agreements.

BOSTON—The FDA is working on building community openness through initiatives that aim to drive innovation, explained Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS, the agency’s first chief health informatics officer as well as director of its Office of Health Informatics, speaking at Bio-IT World Congress.

As analysts and investors had expected, Pfizer and Allergan have terminated their record $160 billion merger by mutual agreement just days after the Obama administration introduced new rules meant to limit the ability of American companies to shift their home overseas simply to lower their tax bills, wrote the New York Times.

New York, NY (April 6, 2016) – Spreemo, a leading healthcare platform providing evidence-based quality metrics and predictive analytics to facilitate high-quality patient care, has named Aleksandar Beric, MD, as its Senior Medical Advisor and Director of Neurophysiology. Currently Director of Clinical Neurophysiology at NYU's Hospital for Joint Diseases, Dr. Beric will help oversee Spreemo’s clinical research and quality-focused efforts in neurophysiology and electrodiagnostic testing.

Diagnostic medical physics has changed significantly over the years, according to a new editorial published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology. What was once an activity carried out by trained individuals is now a full-time profession.

Most Americans don’t believe that the price of healthcare services ties to the quality of the care they receive, according to research published in Health Affairs.

The idea was quickly met with expressions of resolve to never let it see the light of day, but it’s out in the open now: A high-level commission has suggested transitioning the Department of Veterans Affairs from a provider network into a Medicare-like payer.