Apple has disabled the Walkie-Talkie app on Apple Watches after finding a security glitch that allowed a person to eavesdrop on other iPhone conversations without consent, reports The Wall Street Journal.

In a new beta program, 23andMe is asking a subset of customers if they would be willing to incorporate their lab results, prescription information and medical information with their genetic test results, according to CNBC.

A majority of women who completed monthly prenatal urine tests at home using Tel Aviv-based Healthy.io's smartphone app not only found the process simple, but preferred it to in-clinic testing, according to a study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Since Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston launched the MIMIC compendium of de-identified medical records in 2009, the database has proved essential to the advancement of artificial intelligence research in medicine, STAT reports.

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced July 10 the appointment of Gil Alterovitz, PhD, as its first director of artificial intelligence, a position that will be based in the VA's Office of Research and Development.

Hospitals across the country may be considering adopting medical scribes to relieve physicians of different burdens. Although the role of a scribe may seem tedious, the position can require an extensive background in the medical field. It can also be quite challenging for beginners.

Health insurer Premera Blue Cross has agreed to pay 30 states $10.4 million to settle an investigation into a data breach that exposed personal information of more than 10 million people, according to GeekWire.

When it comes to the security of their patient portals, more than half of healthcare organizations consider theirs as above average or superior in comparison to other patient portals, according to a LexisNexis report.

Here are six recent studies and product launches that incorporate machine learning into clinical settings:

It can be difficult to effectively document sensitive health information of pediatric patients and older adults whose family members have access to their patient portals without violating the patient's privacy, according to a viewpoint article in AAP News and Journals.

As artificial intelligence increasingly transforms industries and society at large, it is crucial to consider how that transformation will affect human reasoning and decision-making, according to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, PhD, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, PhD, and Daniel Huttenlocher, PhD, dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.

Researchers from Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor have been granted access to San Francisco-based Atomwise's artificial intelligence software to accelerate their drug discovery projects.

MassChallenge, the Boston-based startup accelerator, announced on July 10 the first cohort of its Texas outpost's Houston-based program, which includes seven companies developing new technologies for use in healthcare.

After 11 years at Boston Children's Hospital, John Brownstein, PhD, stepped into a new role in June 2015 at the hospital: chief innovation officer. Over the past four years, Dr. Brownstein has grown his innovation team to 70 members and has expanded the hospital's partnership portfolio.

Placerville, Calif.-based Shingle Springs Health and Wellness Center discovered that its server infrastructure was infected with ransomware on April 7, which may have compromised the protected health information of 21,513 patients.

Healthcare IT provider Medsphere Systems Corp. has added artificial intelligence capabilities to its CareVue EHR platform.

Sixty-nine percent of hospital executives consider enhancing the healthcare consumer experience as the first or second most important strategic priority their organization has for this year, according to a recent survey.

Houston-based Texas Medical Center and ABB, a robotics company headquartered in Switzerland, will launch a non-surgical robotics research and development facility at the TMC Innovation Institute. 

Healthcare organizations have a tremendous opportunity to harness artificial intelligence in an area that may not seem flashy but is important nonetheless: revenue cycle management.

Machine learning analysis of patient data was able to predict the severity of malaria outcomes and the progression of the disease with significantly greater success than previous approaches, according to the results of a study published July 10 in npj Digital Medicine.