Years ago, one of the nation’s top hospital systems took a radical stance—it wasn’t going to play the merger and acquisition game to continue growing. Instead, Mayo Clinic, based in Rochester, Minnesota, decided it was going to form an extensive network of providers to work with and focus on fixing the fragmentation problems plaguing the healthcare space.

A machine learning tool developed by researchers at Michigan State University can accurately predict an individual’s height within an inch and may offer more precise CVD and cancer risk assessment in the future, according to a report featured this month in Genetics.

Respiratory tract infection (RTI) patients who were prescribed antibiotics during virtual visits rated their physicians better than patients who weren’t prescribed any antibiotics.

With help from a $250,000 grant, a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization is working to provide asthmatic children with “smart” inhalers.

Rising healthcare costs aren’t good for workers or employers, which wind up shouldering higher costs even though employers could negotiate better prices with insurance companies, NPR and ProPublica reported.

A woman’s Fitbit health data was used to arrest her 90-year-old stepfather accused of killing her and staging her death to look like a suicide, according to a report by USA Today.

Though AI-based systems have proven their worth when it comes to diagnosing various conditions from medical images, there’s still a need to prove the capabilities in a clinical setting, according to a recent invited commentary piece published in JAMA.

Digital pathology company Proscia raised $8.3 million in a Series A financing round to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for cancer diagnosis.