In the News

• CDC Creating a ‘Ruckus’ Around Mortality Reportingexternal icon, aitrends, August 22, 2019
• Pentagon Makes Its Case for JEDIexternal icon, Nextgov, August 9, 2019
• Novartis C.E.O. Defends Company’s Decision to Withhold False Data From the F.D.A.external icon, The New York Times, August 7, 2019
• FHFA Wants an App to Guide Employees During Emergenciesexternal icon, Nextgov, August 7, 2019
• What To Expect From Future FITARA Scorecardsexternal icon, Nextgov, August 2, 2019
• Hackathon Aims to Enhance Veterans’ Care through Public-Private Innovationexternal icon, Nextgov, August 2, 2019
• Building for the Future of Government When IT Modernization Isn’t Just a Technology Upgradeexternal icon, Nextgov, August 2, 2019

• DOD’s Next Electronic Health System Rollout Will Be Different, Officials Sayexternal icon, Nextgov, July 31, 2019
• Blockchain: Taking a Cue from Historyexternal icon, Nextgov, July 31, 2019
• CMS, USDS Pilot Unlocks Patient Data to Boost Provider Careexternal icon, Nextgov, July 30, 2019
• Death Rates Rising for Young, Middle-Aged U.S. Adultsexternal icon, Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2019
• Measles in U.S. creeps back toward endemic statusexternal icon, Axios, July23, 2019
• Physician Counseling After HIV Diagnosis Could Stem Epidemicexternal icon, Medscape, July 23, 2019
• Scientists Who Studied Candida Auris Fungus Warn Global Warming May Lead to Diseases ‘We Don’t Even Know About Right Now’external icon, Newsweek, July 23, 3019
• CDC Urges Rapid Reporting of AFM Ahead of Prime Seasonexternal icon, Contagion Live, July 22, 2019
• An Unprecedented Drop in Overdose Deaths Is Sadly Not Reason to Celebrateexternal icon, Vice, July 22, 2019
• The Complexities of the DRC Ebola Outbreakexternal icon, Contagion Live, July 22, 2019
• Wall Street’s tech transformation, a divide at Google, and the future of healthcareexternal icon, Business Insider, July 21, 2019
• Amazon to Spend $700 Million Retraining a Third of U.S. Workersexternal icon, Bloomberg, July 11, 2019
• How precision medicine and genomics aid in cancer careexternal icon, Health Data Management, July 9, 2019
• Experts Say Federal Data Strategy Needs Leaders and Funding to Succeedexternal icon, Nextgov, July 8, 2019
• CDC, lieutenant governor, Florida surgeon general, health department join forces to control hepatitis A statewideexternal icon, TC Palm, July 3, 2019
• The Federal Data Strategy is a Trump Plan We Should All Supportexternal icon, Nextgov, July 2, 2019

• Overdose Deaths Likely to Fall for First Time Since 1990external icon, The Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2019
• White House Wants to Know How Tech Can Help Prevent Veteran Suicidesexternal icon, Nextgov, June 26, 2019
• San Francisco Bans Sales of E-Cigarettesexternal icon, NPR, June 25, 2019
• People-First Policies Will Help Close the Government’s Skills Gapexternal icon, Nextgov, June 25, 2019
• Why America Needs a Thoughtful Federal Privacy Lawexternal icon, The New York Times, June 25, 2019
• Five-year-old boy dies in Uganda as Congo Ebola outbreak spreadsexternal icon, The Guardian, June 12, 2019
• Managing population health with analytics and social determinants of healthexternal icon, Healthcare It News, June 7, 2019
• FDA Turns to Emerging Tech to Secure the Food Systemexternal icon, Nextgov, June 6, 2019
• New CIO Wants to Make HHS a Testbed for Budding Techexternal icon, Nextgov, June 5, 2019

• ONC, CMS proposed rules continue to come under fire from stakeholdersexternal icon, Health Data Management, May 31, 2019
• Measles Cases Reach Highest Level in More Than 25 Years, C.D.C. Saysexternal icon, The New York Times, May 30, 2019
• How the Bureau of Labor Statistics is Ditching Hand-coding Dataexternal icon, Nextgov, May 24, 2019
• Why the Future of Work Is a Challenge for Governmentexternal icon, Nextgov, May 24, 2019
• Government Needs to Diversify Its Cyber Workforceexternal icon, Nextgov, May 21, 2019
• Healthcare in 21 years will be driven by ‘radically interoperable data’external icon, Healthcare IT News, May 21, 2019
• Grieve: FHIR has disrupted health IT, but not healthcareexternal icon, Health Data Management, May 15, 2019

• HHS moves forward with plans to transform data exchangeexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 22, 2019
• FHIR Standards Continue to Shape Health IT’s Interoperability Progressionexternal icon, Forbes, April 19, 2019
• How AI and emerging tech are transforming the healthcare workforceexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, April 18, 2019
• National effort urged to overhaul ‘broken’ health data systemexternal icon, Ohio State News, April 17, 2019
• How to ensure interoperable data is usable by caregiversexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, April 11, 2019
• Typical data workloads increased by 569% in the past 2 yearsexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 11, 2019
• What you need to know about healthcare APIs and interoperabilityexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, April 11, 2019
• Apple consumer base could fuel digital disruption in careexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 10, 2019
• How to ensure interoperable data is usable by caregiversexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, April 11, 2019
• Typical data workloads increased by 569% in the past 2 yearsexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 11, 2019
• What you need to know about healthcare APIs and interoperabilityexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, April 11, 2019
• Apple consumer base could fuel digital disruption in careexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 10, 2019
• CDC clarifies opioid prescribing guideline, says doctors should use their ‘clinical judgement’external icon, Fierce Healthcare, April 10, 2019
• ONC chief Don Rucker on the current state and ‘next frontier’ of interoperabilityexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, April 3, 2019
• Understanding the Terminology Around Citizen Service Delivery Technologyexternal icon, NextGov, April 1, 2019

• The Pathway to Machine Learning in Federalexternal icon, NextGov, March 29, 2019
• Management, Not Money, Will Make or Break VA Modernization, Lawmakers Sayexternal icon, NextGov, March 26, 2019
• Flu season nears end, but medical visits remain high, CDC saysexternal icon, USA Today, March 24, 2019
• NIH-backed startup uses machine learning to catch opioid, drug theftexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, March 22, 2019
• Digital health just had a record year. But is a day of reckoning ahead?external icon, STAT, March 22, 2019
• Your health app could be sharing your medical dataexternal icon, Reuters, March 22, 2019
• U.S. fentanyl deaths are rising fastest among African Americansexternal icon, ScienceNews, March 22, 2019
• FHIR, cloud, pop health and social determinants spark new security challengesexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, March 20, 2019
• When Email Comes to the Doctor’s Office, Wait Times Decreaseexternal icon, The New York Times, March 18, 2019
• Apple Watch may spot heart problem but more research neededexternal icon, The Washington Post, March 16, 2019
• U.S. hopes to send more experts to Congo as Ebola outbreak ragesexternal icon, The Washington Post, March 14, 2019
• Security and tech advice for pharma looking to move to the cloudexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, March 13, 2019
• IT modernization at CDC just one piece of a bigger strategyexternal icon, Federal News Network, March 8, 2019
• WHO unveils plans to create a Department of Digital Healthexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, March 8, 2019
• Implementation best practices: Launching clinical decision supportexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, March 7, 2019
• EHR challenges, information overload often lead to staff workaroundsexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, March 5, 2019

• CDC says HIV prevention progress in the US has stalledexternal icon, Healio, February 28, 2019
• Digital transformation in healthcare remains complex and challengingexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, February 19, 2019
• Smartwatches Are Changing the Purpose of the EKGexternal icon, The Atlantic, February 17, 2019
• With fitness trackers in the workplace, bosses can monitor your every step — and possibly moreexternal icon, The Washington Post, February 16, 2019
• As Measles Outbreak Flares, Vaccination Rates Soar and Some Come Off the Fenceexternal icon, The New York Times, February 16, 2019
• Proposed rules from HHS open door to healthcare API economyexternal icon, Health Data Management, February 14, 2019
• This year’s flu vaccine is doing well, but deaths are still highexternal icon, The Washington Post, February 14, 2019
• This Year’s Flu Shot Was Far More Effective Than Last Year’s. Here’s Whyexternal icon, Time.com, February 14, 2019
• Evaluating visual analytics for health informatics applications: a systematic review from the American Medical Informatics Association Visual Analytics Working Group Task Force on Evaluationexternal icon, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, February 14, 2019
• Meth Abuse Driving Big Spike in Syphilis Casesexternal icon, HealthDay, February 14, 2019
• A Crucial Step for Averting AI Disastersexternal icon, The Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2019
• Microsoft Aims to Connect Patient Health Records in the Cloudexternal icon, Bloomburg, February 7, 2019
• Hospitals Turn to Biometrics to Identify Patientsexternal icon, Wall Street Journal, February 6, 2019
• New voices at the bedside: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Appleexternal icon, Stat News, February 6, 2019
• Infectious Disease Diagnostics Market is Expected to Exhibit US$ 20 Billion by 2024external icon, MarketWatch, February 6, 2019
• CDC Data Highlights Returning Popularity in House Call Style Care, says Dr. Michael Farzam of House Call Doctor Los Angelesexternal icon, San Francisco Business Times, February 5, 2019
• New disease surveillance tool enables early detection of viral outbreaks,external icon News Medical Life Sciences, February 5, 2019
• New disease surveillance tool helps detect any human-infecting virusexternal icon, ScienceDaily, February 4, 2019
• New disease surveillance tool helps detect any human virusexternal icon, Phys Org, February 4, 2019
• 4 Trends We Expect to See at HIMSS 2019external icon HIT, February 1, 2019

• An early look at a CDC project digitizing infectious disease guidelines to work in EHRsexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, January 30, 2019
• Fewer Americans see doctors in their office, CDC data showexternal icon, Healthcare Dive, January 25, 2019
• CDC Fights Opioid Crisis, Infectious Disease Outbreaksexternal icon, NIH Record, January 11, 2019
• Using Social Media Data to Identify Outbreaks and Control Diseaseexternal icon, Government Technology, January 7, 2019

December

• Most drug overdoses involve fentanyl, CDC findsexternal icon, NPR, December 12, 2018
• Amid opioid crisis, methamphetamine deaths now on riseexternal icon, AP, December 12, 2018
• AI can predict mental health issues from your Instagram posts. But should it?external icon, New Hampshire Union Leader, December 9, 2018
• Sioux Falls nurse helped Avera Health abandon using pagersexternal icon, AP News, December 8, 2018
• Most Insured Patients Not Using Online Portalsexternal icon, Physician’s Briefing, December 7, 2018
• FDA issues new framework to advance use of real-world dataexternal icon, Health Data Management, December 7, 2018
• A Fresh Approach to the American Opioid Problemexternal icon, MediaPlanet, Accessed December 7, 2018
• Surgeon General: Federal drug classification needs changesexternal icon, AP News, December 6, 2018
• CDC says nine more people added to E.coli infection investigationexternal icon, Reuters, December 6, 2018
• Secondhand smoke still a problem for Americans: CDCexternal icon, ABCNews, December 6, 2018
• Linked to Obesity Epidemic, CDC Says This Cancer Is On Rise in U.S. Womenexternal icon, Fortune, December 6, 2018
• White House convenes healthcare stakeholders for interoperability forumexternal icon, Health Data Management, December 4, 2018

November

• America is Losing Ground to Death and Despairexternal icon, Washington Post, November 30, 2018
• House Passes Bill to Improve Government’s Digital Servicesexternal icon, Next Gov, November 29, 2018
• The Top 10 Causes of Death in the U.S.external icon, U.S. News and World Report, November 29, 2018
• U.S. Life Expectancy Drops Amid ‘Disturbing’ Rise In Overdoses And Suicidesexternal icon, NPR, November 29, 2018
• U.S. life expectancy declines again in sobering ‘wake-up call’external icon STAT News, November 29, 2018
• HHS pledges to reduce health IT regulatory burdens on cliniciansexternal icon, Health Data Management, November 28, 2018
• ‘The Numbers Are So Staggering.’ Overdose Deaths Set a Record Last Year.external icon, New York Times, November 20, 2018
• Protecting Americans from the Public Health Crisis of Our Timeexternal icon. Media Planet, accessed November 20, 2018
• These jobs have highest suicide rates in the United States, according to the CDCexternal icon, CNN, November 16, 2018
• Digital Bridge launches its first live electronic case reporting siteexternal icon, Robert Wood Johnson, November 15, 2018
• How Wearables Could Help NIH Fight Cancerexternal icon, Nextgov, November 15, 2018
• The new Google Health unit is absorbing health business from DeepMind, Alphabet’s AI research groupexternal icon, CNBC, November 13, 2018
• Health system moves from text-only to AI-powered interactive multimedia radiology reportsexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, November 12, 2018
• How analytics can spot data relationships indicating opioid misuseexternal icon, Health Data Management, November 12, 2018
• Draft Federal Data Strategy Too ‘Unwieldy’ to Implement, Stakeholders Sayexternal icon, Nextgov, November 8, 2018
• CDC: Cigarette smoking hits new low among adults, but youth vaping ‘epidemic’ still a concernexternal icon, USA Today, November 8, 2018
• CDC Confirms First Death Related to Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Raw Turkeyexternal icon, Time.com, November 8, 2018
• CDC: Opioid use helping drive spread of hepatitis Cexternal icon, UPI.com, November 6, 2018
• CDC director warns that Congo’s Ebola outbreak may not be containableexternal icon, The Washington Post, November 5, 2018
• Transportation Wants to Use Data to Predict Accidents and Make Roads Saferexternal icon, DALOOP, November 4, 2018
• The opportunities and challenges of data analytics in health careexternal icon, brookings.edu, November 1, 2018

October

• What it will take for big data to achieve its potential in healthcareexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, October 31, 2018
• CDC director Robert Redfield says pandemic flu is “very possible”, CBS News, October 30, 2018
• CDC director says polio-like illness acute flaccid myelitis “doesn’t appear to be transmissible”external icon, CBS News, October 29, 2018
• US health chief says overdose deaths beginning to level offexternal icon, AP News, October 24, 2018
• CDC says 63 more sick in ground beef recallexternal icon, NBC News, October 23, 2018
• Patient health data gathered via mobile apps could improve careexternal icon, Healio.com, October 23, 2018
• Tokenization Of Healthcare Data Could Revolutionize Industry’s Futureexternal icon, Forbes, October 23, 2018
• Should Healthcare Shift Toward A Blockchain-Based Efficiency Model?external icon, Forbes, October 22, 2018
• CDC investigating more cases of polio-like syndromeexternal icon, NBC News, October 22, 2018
• Individuals’ use of online medical records is on the riseexternal icon, Health Data Management, October 21, 2018
• FHIR supporters want feds to make the standard a requirementexternal icon, Health Data Management, October 19, 2018
• Investments in cloud computing to grow 50% in the next 4 yearsexternal icon, Health Data Management, October 19, 2018

September

• What the Experts Want Us to Know About Public Healthexternal icon, NYT’s TheUpshot, September 4, 2018
• Flu season is around the corner. Is your family prepared?external icon, CNN.com, September 4, 2018

August

• Nationwide prescription safety alert system proposed by House billexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, August 31, 2018
• Congo’s Ebola outbreak still spreading, with possible signs of hopeexternal icon, CNN.com, August 31, 2018
• Patient safety demands more robust testing of EHR usability, says Pewexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, August 30, 2018
• AI diagnostic tool plows through FDA clearance, but some experts not convincedexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, August 29, 2018
• How Facebook — yes, Facebook — might make MRIs fasterexternal icon, CNN Tech, August 20, 2018
• CDC awards ICF $20M health informatics and surveillance task orderexternal icon, Seeking Alpha, August 17, 2018
• Apple sees FHIR as way to liberate patient dataexternal icon, HealthData Management, August 9, 2018
• CDC finds big hike in number of women with opioid addiction delivering babiesexternal icon, Boston Globe, August 9, 2018
• ONC interop forum kicks off,external icon Politico Morning eHealth, August 6, 2018
• After tragedy hit Stark County, local officials and the CDC set up plans to prevent youth suicides, ABC/News5, August 7, 2018
• CDC examines risky teen behavior, Contemporary Pediatrics, August 7, 2018
• Public Trust in use of Big Data for Health Science ‘is vital’: Researchersexternal icon, European Pharmaceutical Review, August 7, 2018
• Zika’s Lingering Effectsexternal icon, US News, August 7, 2018
• Rural Health Disparities in HIV Testing Found in the United Statesexternal icon, Infectious Disease Advisor, August 7, 2018
• CDC: Use of Unapproved Opioid-Like Antidepressant on the Rise in the USexternal icon, Monthly Prescribing Reference, August 7, 2018
• HIV diagnoses down from last year, state health officials sayexternal icon, The Gazette, August 6, 2018
• Opioids Have Sparked An HIV Outbreak In Massachusettsexternal icon, Huffington Post, August 6, 2018
• New Ebola outbreak declared in the Congo, this time in a war zoneexternal icon, Axios, August 3, 2018
• Lessons from HIV/AIDS crisis can apply to the opioid crisisexternal icon, Newsday, August 2, 2017
• CDC: US meets fitness goal, but more work neededexternal icon, Healios, August 1, 2018

July

• CDC Addresses Need for Eye Care with New Surveillance Systemexternal icon, Pharmacy Time, July 25, 2018
• Disease surveillance innovations help defeat the poliovirusexternal icon, Reliefweb, July 23, 2018
• Diabetes May Increase Risk for Cancer, Especially for Womenexternal icon, Livescience, July 19, 2018
• Liver cancer death rates rise 43 percent in U.S., CDC reportsexternal icon, Chicago Tribune, July 17, 2018

June

• How Suicide Quietly Morphed Into a Public Health Crisisexternal icon, The New York Times, June 8, 2018
• NIH strategic plan seeks to keep pace with changes in data scienceexternal icon, Health Data Management, June 5, 2018
• Opioids Are Now Responsible for 1 in 5 Deaths Among Young Adultsexternal icon, Time.com, June 2, 2018
• A Guide to Differing Hurricane Death Tollsexternal icon, New York Times.com, June 2, 2018
• The Burden of Opioid-Related Mortality in the United Statesexternal icon, JamaNetwork.com, June 1, 2018
• What’s killing America’s teens? Inside CDC’s new mortality reportexternal icon; AJC.com, June 1, 2018

May

• Two-thirds of patients with HIV had missed opportunities for PrEPexternal icon, Healio.com, May 31, 2018
• Outbreak prevention will be focus for new task forceexternal icon, The Packer, May 31, 2018
• CDC report examines Legionnaires’ at Illinois veterans homeexternal icon, AP news, May 30, 2018
• Multi-state Hepatitis A outbreak fueled by personal contact; rates for homeless, drug users soarexternal icon, The Washington Times, May 30, 2018
• How the Cherokee Nation Is Trying to Eliminate Hepatitis Cexternal icon, Healthcare.com, May 30, 2018
• Effects of E.coli Outbreak in Lettuce Ripple Through U.S. Food-Supply Chainexternal icon, The Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2018
• CDC warns pools, hot tubs and water parks are hotbed for disease outbreaksexternal icon; AJC.com, May 22, 2018
• N.H. Senators Want EPA to Allow Release of PFC Health Risk Dataexternal icon, New Hampshire Public Radio, May 15, 2018
• FHIR information exchange capability now coming of ageexternal icon, HealthData Management, May 14, 2018
• Salmonella outbreak cases linked to massive Rose Acre egg recall climbs to 35external icon, Indianapolis Star, May 13, 2018
• Here’s What the Next Pandemic Pathogen Might Look Likeexternal icon, Live Science, May 12, 2018
• Medical examiners can now upload death certificates via – what else? – an appexternal icon, Concord Monitor, May 7, 2018
• CDC: Illnesses caused by ticks, mosquitoes, fleas have surgedexternal icon; Newsday, May 1, 2018

April

• Google’s parent aims to shape healthcare with AIexternal icon, Modern Healthcare, April 19, 2018
• Another company recalls kratom after illness reportedexternal icon, Food Safety News, April 19, 2018
• More illnesses reported in E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuceexternal icon, CNN.com
• CDC says addiction treatment, syringe service programs are key in preventing spread of Hep Cexternal icon; Beckley Register-Herald, April 18, 2018
• Endocarditis Joins HIV and Hepatitis Among Infections Related to Opioid Epidemicexternal icon, ContagionLive.com, April 18, 2018
• How is health care in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria? No one knows.external icon, WashingtonPost.com, April 18, 2018
• Intermountain study to link genomic data to clinical outcomesexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 18, 2018
• Senate bill calls for data, technology to combat opioid crisisexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 18, 2018
• 7 challenges physicians face accessing patient dataexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 18, 2018

February

• Can Technology Be The Magic Pill That Cures Health Care?external icon, Forbes, February 21, 2018
• Digital Bridge collaboration with Cerner, Epic, CDC and others hope to connect EHRs to public healthexternal icon, Healthcare It News, February 20, 2018
• How health authorities fight the spread of infectious diseases: Algorithm could help public health programs better locate, and treat, people living with undiagnosed infectious diseasesexternal icon, Science Daily, February 20, 2018
• Algorithm improves treatment of patients with spinal metastasesexternal icon, Health Data Management, February 20, 2018
• How biometrics is giving identities to ‘invisible citizens’external icon, CNN.com, February 19, 2018
• Analytics Part 1: Why Every Company Has a Big Data Problemexternal icon, Medium.com, February 19, 2018
• Fighting the flu? This technology tries to help you get well fasterexternal icon, USAToday.com, February 18, 2018
• The Flu Vaccine Is Working Better Than Expected, C.D.C. Findsexternal icon, The New York Times, February 15, 2018
• A Citizenship Question on the Census May Be Bad for Your Healthexternal icon, The New York Times, February 14, 2018
• Reference: Larry Page’s Wish To Make All Health Data Public Has Big Benefits — And Big Risksexternal icon, techcrunch.com, Mar 18, 2014

January

• Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhoneexternal icon, New York Times, January 24, 2018
• ONC: Artificial Intelligence Has Potential to Reshape Healthcareexternal icon, HealthIT Analytics, January 19, 2018
• Few physicians are fluent in data. New program aims to fix thatexternal icon, AMA Wire, January 16, 2018
• CDC wants to bring clinical guidelines into the ‘digital age’: 3 things to knowexternal icon, Becker’s Hospital Review, January 16, 2018
• Flu Closes Schools, Flusters Hospitals Nationwideexternal icon, ABC News, January 15, 2018
• CDC looks to bring its clinical guidance into the digital ageexternal icon, Fierce Healthcare, January 12, 2018
• The 2018 Flu Season Is Already a Deadly One. Here’s What You Can Still Do About Itexternal icon, Fortune, January 8, 2018
• These are the states where infant mortality is highestexternal icon, CNN.com, January 4, 2018

• Federal health officials head Monterey County, collecting local data to gauge the nation’s healthexternal icon, Monterey County Now, January 4, 2018
• CDC reports E. coli death; link to romaine investigatedexternal icon, The Packer, January 3, 2018
• ‘Raw Water’ Is a New Health Trend. But Is It Safe?external icon, Time.com, January 3, 2018
• Widespread Flu Activity Has Tripled in Two Weeksexternal icon, ContagionLive, January 3, 2018
• Epidemic of Opioid Abuse Is Top Health News of 2017external icon, Health, January 1, 2018

December

• Black victims of heroin, opioid crisis are ‘whitewashed’ out of picture, report findsexternal icon, Chicago Tribune, December 26, 2017
• Tracking the opioid crisis a challengeexternal icon, The Intelligencer, December 26, 2017
• How big tech is going after your health careexternal icon, The New York Times, December 26, 2017
• New Nevada Law to Begin Fast-Track Opioid Data Collectionexternal icon, U.S. News and World Report, December 26, 2017
• The man with a plan: on Ashok Alexander and Antara Foundationexternal icon, The Hindu, December 25, 2017
• Eastern Oregon health departments to target opioid abuseexternal icon, East Oregonian, December 25, 2017
• The opioid crisis is driving down US life expectancy, new data showsexternal icon, PBS News Hour, December 21, 2017
• Tech Alone Can’t Solve The Opioid Crisisexternal icon, Wired, December 21, 2017
• Drug overdoses contribute to drop in US life expectancyexternal icon, Washington Examiner, December 21, 2017
• Physician-Level Data May Not Reduce Opioid Prescription Ratesexternal icon, Health IT Analytics, December 18, 2017
• ‘Data Across Sectors for Health’ grantees in New York City, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Seattle
  describe their workexternal icon, Healthcare Informatics, December 15, 2017
• How Do We Automate Population Health Management?external iconOpen Minds, December 14, 2017
• DHEC introduces Public Health Data Appexternal icon, WBTW.com, December 13, 2017
• Collaboration is the best strategy to combat population health concernsexternal icon, The Hill, December 13, 2017
• How HHS Gathered 300 Coders to Solve a Public Health Crisisexternal icon, Government CIO Magazine, December 12, 2017
• How to Put Data to Work in Your Neighborhoodexternal icon, Government Technology, December 12, 2017
• Massachusetts credits database with reducing opioid prescriptions by 30% external icon, Health Data Management, December 7, 2017
• CDC combats opioid crisis with health, prescription dataexternal icon, Health Data Management, December 6, 2017
• Why HIPAA shouldn’t be an impediment to public health data sharingexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, December 6, 2017
• The Promise And Danger Of Health Care’s Big Data Revolutionexternal icon, Huffington Post, December 5, 2017
• Google makes AI tool for precision medicine open sourceexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, December 5, 2017
• Education is key to getting patients to share electronic medical recordsexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, December 5, 2017
• HHS opioid code–a–thon seeks new technologies to help stem epidemicexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, December 4, 2017
• Post–Ebola ‘soul searching’ prompts the CDC to rethink data collection and clinical decision supportexternal icon, FierceHealthcare, December 1, 2017
• ONC Annual Meeting, Tackling Barriers to Interoperability and Usabilityexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, December 1, 2017

November

• How Opiods Started Killing Americansexternal icon, Bloomberg/Quint, November 28, 2017
• CDC Data Confirm Connection Between Student Heath and Academic Achievementexternal icon, Fayette Tribune, November 27, 2017
• 3 Challenges and Considerations for Measuring Population Health Successexternal icon, HIT Consultant, November 27, 2017
• The Biggest Interoperability Holdup? There’s No Business Case for Itexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, November 27, 2017
• Data Registry to Track Childhood Health, Illness Trendsexternal icon, Healthcare Informatics, November 26, 2017
• Amazon’s cloud is about to announce a huge health-care deal with Cerner, sources sayexternal icon, CNBC, November 22, 2017
• Five Reasons to Be Thankful for Healthcare Big Data Analyticsexternal icon, Health IT Analytics, November 21, 2017
• Insider Q&A: Health Data Helps Doctors Pick Drugsexternal icon, ABC News, November 19, 2017
• Ohio Valley Public Health Agencies Take Proactive Look at HIVexternal icon , The Intelligencer, November 18, 2017
• About 90% of Americans Don’t Eat Enough Fruits and Vegetablesexternal icon, Time, November 17, 2017
• Modern Health IT Infrastructure Key to Health Data Securityexternal icon, Health IT Infrastructure, November 17, 2017
• The Big Idea Behind Big Data,external icon Jefferson Public Radio, November, 17, 2017
• IBM Partners with the CDC to Bring Blockchains to Public Healthexternal icon, Nasdaq.com, November 16, 2017
• Fusion Genomics Turns to IBM Cloud to Help Support Advances Designed to Conquer Global Pandemicsexternal icon, Markets Insider, November 16, 2017
• Baker Calls For Improvements To Opioid Treatment And Prescribingexternal icon, WBUR, Common Health, November 15, 2017
• Teen suicide rate suddenly rises with heavy use of smartphones, social mediaexternal icon. The Washington Times, November 14, 2017
• Apple Watch Can Detect Hypertension And Sleep Apnea: Studyexternal icon, I4U News, November 14, 2017
• How HIT Can Impact Use of Social Determinants of Healthexternal icon, Health Data Management, November 14, 2017
• Wearable Devices to Gather Data for All of Us Initiativeexternal icon, Health Data Management, November 13, 2017
• How Facebook and Google threaten public health – and democracyexternal icon, The Guardian, November 11, 2017
• Data Analytics Can Drive Change in Health Careexternal icon, US News and World Report, November 11, 2017
• Social media data could transform public health, new book saysexternal icon, University of Colorado, November 9, 2017
• Big Data Resources for Public Healthexternal icon, Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburghexternal icon, November 7, 2017
• Embracing a Holistic Approach in Care Managementexternal icon, US News and World Report, November 2, 2017
• Commission calls for integrated data environment to combat opioid crisisexternal icon, Health Data Management, November 2, 2017
• How a Healthcare Data Scientist Can Aid in Value-based Careexternal icon, Tech Target, November 2017
• Report: Social Determinants:  The Next Phase of Value-Based Innovationpdf iconexternal icon, RAM Technologies, Inc., November 2017

October

• Data Adds Detail, Meaning to Population Health Programsexternal icon, mHealth Intelligence, October 31, 2017
• How sensing technologies can reshape architecture, public health, and cities, external iconcom,  October 30, 2017
• Using EHR Data to Automate Public Health Reporting, Analysisexternal icon Healthcare Informatics, October 26, 2017
• IBM Watson Health Signed Agreement with CDC to Research Blockchainexternal icon, Coinspeaker, October 26, 2017
• Machine Learning Detects Marketing and Sale of Opioids on Twitterexternal icon, Press Release University of California San Diego, October, 25, 2017
• Hottest Issues in Health Information Technology on Tap at 8th Annual Health IT Leadership Summit November 7, 2017external icon, Global Newswire, October 23, 2017
• The Importance Of Data Quality — Good, Bad Or Uglyexternal iconForbes, October 20, 2017
• Anatomy of an Opioid Overdose Outbreak: How One Georgia Doctor Sounded the Alarmexternal icon, NBC News, October 9, 2017

September

• Addressing The Gap In Noncommunicable Disease Data With Technology And Innovationexternal icon, September, 21, 2017
• Age matters when it comes to screening for cervical cancerexternal icon, Associated Press, September 12,2017
• Drug Overdoses Are Killing A Lot More People Than HIV Or Guns At Their Worstexternal icon, Huffington Post, September, 7,2017
• The First Count of Fentanyl Deaths in 2016: Up 540% in Three Yearsexternal icon, New York Times, September 2, 2017

August

• The Case For Sharing All Of America’s Data On Mosquitoesexternal icon, Huffington Post, Aug 29,2017
• Local public health is critical in fight against opioid addictionexternal icon, Times-Georgian, Aug 26, 2017
• Fitzgerald: CDC stands in defense against health threatsexternal icon, Times-Georgian, Aug 26, 2017
• Fitzgerald leading CDCexternal icon, Times-Georgian, Aug 26, 2017
• With Great Health Data Comes Great Potential for Biasexternal icon, Pacific Standard, August, 10, 2017
• Local Infectious Disease Response Efforts Receive $200 Million Boost from CDCexternal icon, Contagion Live
  August 4, 2017

July

• 10 facts that sum up our nation’s health in 2017external icon , Public health matters, 13 July 2017
• Integrating Genomics into Public Health Surveillance: Ushering in a New Era of Precision Public Health, CDC Genomics and Health Impact Blog, July 19, 2017

June

• CDC Works to Improve Public Health Data Analytics, Surveillanceexternal icon, HealthIT Analytics, June 16, 2017
• CDC plans to improve public health data collection by moving to the cloud and accessing EHRsexternal icon, FierceHealthcare, June 14, 2017
• The Dawn Of Data-Driven Healthcareexternal icon, HealthITAnalytics, June 14, 2017, Webcastexternal icon by Intel
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• Modernizing Public Health through Shared Servicesexternal icon, CSTE, June 6, 2017