Ashburn, Virginia-based BlackMesh has launched a HIPAA-compliant cloud platform designed to meet the everyday technical and regulatory needs of clinics and hospitals.

A 34-year-old woman is putting her needed hysterectomy on hold because her physician won’t perform the surgery unless she pays her $2,500 share of the cost upfront, and the hospital may demand the same before allowing the procedure.

With the enormous number of apps promising better health or improved eating habits, how are physicians evaluating these options? What guidelines do they have in recommending apps to patients?

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 1, 2016 — Use of machine learning and predictive analytics to improve health outcomes has so far been limited to highly-trained data scientists, mostly in the nation’s top academic medical centers.

DUBLIN and CLEVELAND – Nov. 29, 2016 – Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT), the global leader in medical technology, today announced the signing of its first Integrated Health Solutions agreement in the United States with University Hospitals (UH), one of the nation’s leading healthcare systems, designed to improve delivery of care and patient experience.  Together the organizations will implement innovative operational models that will optimize workflow and redefine operational efficiency for catheterization (cath) and electrophysiology (EP) laboratories at the University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.  Medtronic brings its international expertise from managing cath labs and operating rooms for over 100 hospital systems around the globe to manage clinical support operations in UH select labs. The agreement signals the expansion of Medtronic’s managed services offering to U.S. health systems.

Researchers have found that children who take music lessons may have improved brain fiber connections, which could potentially be useful in treating autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Interested in knowing your chances of getting dementia? An app can now tell you.

Medical researchers are becoming more open to letting participants in clinical trials see their test results, but drug companies doubt most volunteers will find the information useful.