Newsweek is hosting a webinar for health care executives on Thursday, February 13, to discuss crisis management in an ...

The healthcare industry can no longer afford to rely on manual processes and disparate systems for provider data management.

The Lancet medical journal’s Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission last week proposed a new definition and method for diagnosing obesity, beyond simply looking at a person’s Body Mass Index (BMI), the ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help most,” said Dr. David Cummings, an obesity expert at the University of ...

Obesity needs a new definition, argues a global group of ... It’s up to individual doctors and health care systems to decide whether to put these guidelines into clinical practice.

By Gina Kolata Obesity should be assessed in a way that goes beyond the standard measure of body mass index, or B.M.I., according to a new definition of the condition released by an international ...

The current definition of obesity, as set by the World Health Organization (WHO), is having excess body fat that poses a risk to health. The WHO recommends that healthcare workers assess whether ...

Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a harbinger of other diseases, not a disease in itself. The idea of obesity as a ...

When it comes to data, perhaps no sector has as much of it and in as many distinct silos as the healthcare industry ... population health management, and customer relationship management (CRM ...