CMS, in conjunction with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), recently proposed new rules to regulate interoperability standards. The rules would impact healthcare providers and plans, and ultimately give patients better access to all their health information—for free.

Researchers have developed a machine learning system that predicts the severity of arthritis in a pediatric population, allowing for treatment to be personalized. Findings of their research were published in PLOS Medicine.

As the number of diabetes cases continues to rise in India, Google and Verily, the life sciences research organization under Alphabet, have a solution to better screen for the disease and associated eye diseases.

Employees at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston made 122 mistakes in the labeling of blood over a four-month period, according to a federal review prompted by the December death of a 75-year-old woman who received the wrong blood type and died after suffering repeated bouts of cardiac arrest.

Physician bias against overweight and obese patients is not only prevalent in today’s medical landscape, according to an analysis published in JAMA Feb. 20—it could also be overshadowing quality care and driving some of those patients further from the doctor’s office.

The American Heart Association and Verily, Alphabet’s life sciences and healthcare arm, have joined forces to promote a new initiative called Research Goes Red—an attempt to engage more women in cardiovascular research—the AHA announced Feb. 26.

Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a new AI-based software––Ensemble Algorithm with Multiple Parcellations for Schizophrenia Prediction, or EMPaSchiz––that will allow physicians to identify schizophrenia in fMRI scans with 87 percent accuracy. Their research was published in NJP Schizophrenia.

Dana Solutions, a California-based AI company, is partnering with the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research to improve the drug development process by using AI, the company announced Feb. 25.