Patients undergoing heart surgery might see better outcomes and shorter hospital stays if they opt for intraoperative autologous blood donation, according to research out of New York.

New research published in JAMA suggests primary care follow-up within seven days of a hospitalization is associated with fewer Medicaid readmissions.

A seemingly harmless disease could actually be a cause of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a recent study reported by BBC News.

A team from Singapore demonstrated that an object detection convolutional neural network (CNN) could accurately detect and localize fractures on wrist x-rays, according to a Jan. 30 study published in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence. The method may be more verifiable than traditional CNNs.

The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) has ended its data collaboration relationship agreement with UnitedHealthcare, the nation’s largest health insurer. The relationship provided HCCI with de-identified insurance claims for data analysis of U.S. healthcare spending, utilization and market performance.

Aetna has launched Attain, a new application for the Apple Watch that tracks daily activities and rewards users for achieving certain health-related goals. It will also be able to help patients find low-cost medical imaging options.  

Researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering have utilized machine learning to detect clusters of potential biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease. This will allow for earlier diagnosis and could potentially lead to non-invasive methods of tracking the progression of the disease in impacted patients. Findings were published in the journal Frontiers in Aging NeuroScience.

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UnitedHealthcare, the nation’s largest health insurer, will have to shell out $91 million to patients who were wrongfully denied coverage for some healthcare services.

Although recent recommendations—such as those released in 2014 from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons—say routine mammograms should be completely avoided before surgery unless breast cancer risks exist, research published in JAMA Surgery found that one-third of women younger than 40 undergo mammography exams before breast reduction surgery.