IBM’s Watson supercomputer may be boning up on its medical bona fides, but the concept of Dr. Watson is nothing new. We’ve been waiting on our super-smart ...

For physicians, the computer has become the instrument of obedience to a senseless body of regulations that directs not only the technology itself but also its use as a vehicle to "improve quality of ...

Adolescents more likely to reveal secrets to computer than doctor, study says. June 4, 2008 — -- A teenager who is sad and maybe even considering suicide may be reluctant to tell a doctor about ...

Americans are aging and doctors are in short supply. By 2025, there could be a shortage of 90,000 physicians, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. To deliver results more ...

Could machines and algorithms eventually replace doctors, leading to a more automated healthcare process? It's possible, says Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla in a TechCrunch post this week, who ...

Computer Doctor was a syndicated American television documentary seriesa documentary entertainment TV Program created by Nine Star Productions which aired in 1992. Show host, Gene R. Lowry reviewed ...

Digitized medical data presents promise and peril. Increasingly, it can be acquired anywhere, as the quality of wearable and home health-monitoring devices improves. On the downside, cloud-based ...

The Trump administration this month announced its own effort to update the Electronic Health Record systems, which disrupt the doctor-patient relationship. The government could do even more good by ...