Molly Merrill
The iPhone 4S will be available on October 14, and one expert says Apple's new release "certainly boosts its suitability for healthcare applications." But one team of UC Davis researchers didn't need an upgrade to transform their iPhones into medical-quality imaging and chemical detection devices.
Two surgeons from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are touting the benefits of social media to their colleagues as a way to disseminate accurate information to their trainees and patients.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced new recommendations and initiatives on Monday to support health text messaging and mobile health (mHealth) programs.
A unique summer program, which paired physicians at Mount Nittany Medical Center with pre-med students at Penn State, has proved to be successful in coaching doctors on EMR use and giving students a real-life experience in a hospital setting.
University of Utah engineers say wireless technology will one day be used to noninvasively measure the breathing of surgery patients, adults with sleep apnea and babies at risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
The 2011 HIMSS Davies Award Winners were announced Tuesday during a conference that was part of National Health Information Technology Week. Officials have also changed the criteria for next year's awards, aligning them with the HIMSS Analytics EMR adoption model.
Patient data lost while in the hands of a business associate becomes "extraordinarily" difficult to track, says one expert, who identified data-centric protection as a way to safeguard information like that recently exposed at Stanford Hospital and Clinics.
The pilot for the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER), which enables sharing of veterans' health records will be expanded, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday.
A bill in California aimed at strengthening the state's existing data breach notification requirements will become law on January 1, 2012.
The largest urban health simulation and training facility of its kind opened Tuesday at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital Center.