Bill Siwicki

The new telehealth technology enables care teams to engage with patients via live video chat on Apple iOS and Android mobile devices.

Forrester Research offers insight into best practices to prevent criminals from wreaking havoc as IoT innovation outpaces medical device security.

Patients claim they take responsibility for their own health. Doctors don’t believe that. The discrepancy means clinicians have an opportunity to improve communication to better partner with their patients.

CareSkore tech uses predictive analytics with the goal of improving clinical and financial outcomes through personalized, real-time interventions in diverse patient populations.  

In conjunction with the Keystone Health Information Exchange, Geisinger Health System sends clinicians push HL7 ORU messages in a population health management program to identify at-risk patients and reduce readmissions.

Hospital IQ’s operational planning and management platform will enable Allscripts clients to save money, reduce uncertainty and improve the quality of care, Allscripts says.

Health and Humans Services head Sylvia Burwell pressed for urgent action as her department’s dwindling resources will make it harder to help states with mosquito control and for the National Institutes of Health to conduct trials of Zika vaccines.

The Colorado network’s South Denver unit is giving patients an app for house calls and assigning care coordinators to help navigate the system. And it’s already seeing Triple Aim results. 

OpenNotes Executive Director Catherine DesRoches said the growing number of patients able to access their medical records online is advancing the shift toward transparency between doctors and patients.  

As providers, payers and patients align in what Schoenberg calls a national play for delivering real-time care anywhere patients and providers can connect, telemedicine stands ready to revolutionize healthcare the way Amazon has rewritten retail.