"Payers have understood the value prop very quickly: the best fit for the customer is ideally the best fit for the plan," says one executive. The data scientists will see you now. In fact, they're ...

The blizzard of health data, enabled by performative leaps in data collection technology, data organization and computational power, will only help us if there is a corresponding advance in analytics, ...

The SeattleStatGROWS program (Statistical Growing Research Opportunities for Undergraduates in Washington State) is a Fred ...

Medical data science is a relatively new scientific field that uses the power of data mining and machine learning techniques to support improved decision-making in healthcare, says certified physician ...

This post was updated June 1 at 4:04 p.m.. The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health announced it will offer a new master’s degree in data science in health. The degree program, launched by the school ...

One thing about South Asian populations is that we do have a very different presentation of diabetes, partly due to our genetics, partly due to migration pressures”, says Rohini Mathur, Professor and ...

Meharry Medical College will use a $600,000 donation from HCA Healthcare, announced during a ceremony Monday, to help educate future data scientists. The money will help with paid internships and ...

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 ...