Walgreens store associates and managers across the U.S. will soon be equipped with small, AI-powered devices that will allow them to remain “heads-up and hands-free” while communicating among themselves to help customers.

The financial impact of healthcare data breaches on organizations is nearly $6.5 million, according to a recent IBM study on data breach costs. Healthcare organizations had the highest cost of a breach than other industries for the ninth year in a row––about 60% more than other industries in the study.

AI in healthcare is advancing many areas of care and diagnosis, but it is also helping predict the clinical risk and severity of malaria.

Compared with standard statistical reviews of process-control charts, AI analysis of data routinely captured by hospitals monitoring handwashing compliance can provide highly targeted and actionable feedback to individual healthcare workers.

Medical-device giant Medtronic is partnering with Viz.ai to offer stroke centers capabilities for automatically flagging large vessel occlusions while the patient is still on the bed of a CT scanner.

A convolutional neural network (CNN) has beaten a team of 11 pathologists at diagnosing melanoma.

Combining machine learning with statistical modeling, researchers have analyzed tweets to figure out who’s doing more to keep fit—men or women—along with exactly how the sexes are exercising and approximately where they live.

Over the last few years, the number of physicians using telemedicine has doubled, according to a new report from Doximity, and the number continues to increase 20% annually. The new report underscores the growing emergence of the new technologies and the rising need for easy access to medical care among certain populations.