AI predicts and Medicare pays; a new model could change everyday healthcareMedicare has introduced a new payment model that could make it easier for AI tools to become part of everyday healthcare. By paying for car...
15 May, 2026, 04.09 PM IST
Is Hantavirus spreading in Texas? Cruise Ship connected to Texas passengers sparks new fear about symptoms and human spreadA rare hantavirus outbreak connected to a cruise ship has sparked fresh concern across the United States, especially after health officials...
10 May, 2026, 02.27 PM IST
How a Bengaluru professor turned eye scans into AI-powered diagnostic toolsAn Indian researcher is changing healthcare with AI-driven, non-invasive diagnostic systems. These tools, including retinal scans for neuro...
08 May, 2026, 07.28 PM IST
Are you affected? Medicare breach may expose Social Security Numbers — steps to check nowThe Medicare data leak has triggered fresh fears around Social Security number exposure and identity theft across the United States. A publ...
07 May, 2026, 09.17 PM IST
AI in Healthcare: Setting new benchmarks in modern medicineAI is transforming India’s healthcare ecosystem, enabling faster diagnostics, smarter treatments, and wider access to care. The Healthcare ...
05 May, 2026, 03.51 PM IST
Why many Americans are turning to AI for health advice, according to recent pollsTurning to artificial intelligence tools for health advice has become a habit for Davis and many other Americans, according to a West Healt...
15 Apr, 2026, 05.28 PM IST
As AI use increases at work, many employees still choose not to use it: Gallup pollMost workers using AI report productivity boosts. Roughly 3 in 10 employees are frequent users of AI in their jobs, meaning they use it dai...
13 Apr, 2026, 09.44 AM IST
Hospitals, insurers rejig operations as DPDP kicks in next yearIndia’s healthcare and health insurance sectors are ramping up data protection as the DPDP Act comes into force in May 2027. Hospitals and ...
21 Jan, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
From AI to Telemedicine: Digital skills every healthcare professional should learnDigital skills are crucial for healthcare professionals, with growing fields like telemedicine, AI-driven diagnostics, and data analytics. ...
29 Mar, 2025, 10.55 PM IST
Patients' health data is not shared with insurance, pharma firms without consent: Govt'Privacy by Design' is one of the key guiding principles of ABDM and implemented following the principles of federated digital architecture...
20 Dec, 2022, 06.24 PM IST
Meta sued for using tracking tool to access patients' data for adsTwo proposed class-action lawsuits alleged that Meta and major US hospitals used a Meta Pixel tracking tool that sends health information t...
03 Aug, 2022, 11.38 AM IST
View: Blockchain could fix critical pain points in India's healthcare sectorThe very nature of blockchain protects privacy and more importantly, gives patients control over their health records, making them both own...
25 Jan, 2022, 03.44 PM IST
Your data may no longer be personal as little regard given to Covid patients' informationDiscrepancy was found in the Covid-19 data reported by the health ministry and that by the Indian Council of Medical Research. The Niti Ayo...
26 Nov, 2020, 06.11 AM IST
Building a consent-based mental health database puts patient privacy in focus“How do you get consent from patients belonging to different demographics? How to authenticate the information, is something that we are lo...
21 Jul, 2020, 10.38 AM IST
Telcos, DoT in sync with states to track movement of Covid-19 patientsThe Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and mobile phone operators are working in tandem with state governments to use call data of subs...
27 Apr, 2020, 08.53 AM IST
Health ministry working on law to safeguard patients' privacyAccording to sources, the proposed law will strengthen the plan to have electronic health records (EHR) by addressing concerns surrounding ...
25 Sep, 2019, 04.22 PM IST
CVS and IBM team up to use artificial intelligence to predict when people get sickThe resulting analytics could help patients manage chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension and help predict which patients are getting...
31 Jul, 2015, 12.16 PM IST