Getting your hands on a large, rich, longitudinal set of patient data is a data scientist’s dream. You can’t train a model that predicts sepsis without access to a good dataset of hospital visits. You ...

As money pours into health care startups built around artificial intelligence — more than 350 deals totaling $4 billion in 2019 — the field is generally overlooking the potential litigation risk ...

Medical genetics company Invitae released a first-of-its-kind data use transparency and impact report today detailing the impact of patient data on genetic research. The report comes as concerns about ...

School districts and the companies that work with them need to put a greater emphasis on ensuring that the massive amounts of student data collected every year are cleared of identifying information ...

We collaborate with the world's leading lawyers to deliver news tailored for you. Sign Up for any (or all) of our 25+ Newsletters. Some states have laws and ethical rules regarding solicitation and ...

Rebecca Perrault is the VP and Global Leader of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) at Magnit where she launched Magnit's DE&I offering. Gaining insight into workers' diverse backgrounds can help ...

A growing number of hospitals are banding together with tech companies to create analytics businesses, or develop predictive algorithms. These efforts are fueled by de-identified data, which gives ...

Storing data in DNA sounds like science fiction, yet it lies in the near future. Experts expect the first DNA data center to be up and running within five to ten years. Data won't be stored as zeros ...

Healthcare organizations and hospitals in the United States all sit on treasure troves: a stockpile of patient health data stored as electronic medical records. Those files show what people are sick ...