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Osaro, a new, San Francisco-based startup that’s developing advanced machine learning known as deep reinforcement learning, has raised $3.3 million in seed funding to take its technology to market. The money comes from Scott Banister, Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures, and Peter Thiel, for whom Osaro...

In October, Mother Jones published an article attacking Epic, saying the EHR vendor has not delivered on the industrywide goal of connecting patient health records and optimizing digitization in healthcare. Now, Epic has written a response to Mother Jones in which the vendor refutes the...

HealthMyne, a Wisconsin Start-up has announced that that their quantitative imaging analytics platform will now integrate with Epic and UW Health, HealthMyne provides radiologists a view of electronic health record (EHR) data and imaging information. According too the company, this will unify and improve more...

Rumors of feuds between Epic and other electronic health care records vendors like Cerner are greatly exaggerated, according to company insiders. Those supposed feuds have been made famous by several high-profile media reports, including an article last month in Mother Jones, a liberal-leaning newsmagazine....

Nov. 11--Some Congress members and national media outlets say Epic Systems Corp. is blocking the sharing of electronic medical records, but that's not true, an Epic executive said Tuesday at a forum that included a leader from a chief Epic competitor. Bob Robke, vice president of...

Sheldon Cuffie, vice president of information risk at Northwestern Mutual, knew cybersecurity was moving up in the world when a board member invited him to lunch. “Two years ago the chief information security officer (CISO) didn’t attend board meetings, didn’t talk to our leadership team,” he...

“If I buy a toaster and my wife says, ‘It’s lousy; throw it out,’ to preserve domestic tranquility I throw out the toaster and buy a new one,” says Ross Koppel, a scholar in the Sociology Department & School of Medicine at the University of...

Square has officially gone public, and now the payments-processing company needs to put its money where its mouth is. With its market debut, chief executive Jack Dorsey had a lot to celebrate Thursday. His mother Marcia rang the bell for the market’s open — even though...