Molly Merrill

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius have announced the creation of a new interagency effort, the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT).

A new study identifies the top five challenges senior IT executives face when implementing wireless applications and devices in the healthcare setting.

A new study suggests that patients are open to having electronic medical records play a more central role in their care.

Children's Medical Center in Dallas has become the first hospital to tweet in real time during a transplant surgery.

Children's Medical Center in Dallas will provide live Twitter updates from its operating room Monday, while 3-year-old John Gilbreath receives a kidney transplant from his father.

IBM executives are touting the company's new "stream computing" software as representing "a significant advancement in information technology."

Healthcare IT and medical technology are primed for investment in 2009, according to an annual report on healthcare investing issues.

Officials at the University of California, Berkeley are notifying more than 160,000 individuals that their personal information may have been stolen after hackers attacked restricted computer databases in the campus' health service center.

According to new scientific evidence, a remote exam of a stroke patient performed via videoconferencing is as effective as a bedside evaluation, and a good argument for the increased use of telemedicine for stroke care.

According to Bridges to Excellence, a national effort to recognize and reward high-performing physicians, pay-for-performance programs garner greater participation when the rewards are higher.