Jack McCarthy
Of the 165,000 apps residing in Apple and Google stores, a surprisingly minute number comprise 50 percent of all downloads. And those that connect to providers are considerably smaller than that in number.
Lots of hospitals are snapping up clinics and physician practices. One major consultancy recommends they also consider acquiring digital health startups and other vertically-integrated companies.
Security specialists bring to market new cloud services to secure PHI and PII for Salesforce users.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded grants totaling more than $30 million to 12 universities, hospitals and medical groups to pursue research projects that tie DNA sequence information into electronic medical records.
The money will fund projects that focus on improving care in vulnerable populations.
A job listing for a small but growing team to create a large distributed security services has Microsoft watchers speculating about the company's intentions.
Not everyone is going to like this but a new study found that EHR adoption has risen in America for reasons other than the federal meaningful use incentives.
Even after $30 billion in taxpayer money spent on funding the digitization of America's healthcare system more than half of doctors view EHRs as having a negative impact on cost, efficiency and productivity.
The companies will work together to create small, low-cost diabetes sensors.
The use of big data and analytics tools faces many challenges, including EHRs, interoperability, data de-identification and more.