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The hospital partnered with the taxi service to smooth discharge and help patients and visitors who struggle with transportation. 

The Konica Minolta Business Innovation Center is working to involve 30 U.S. health systems in the wide-ranging test program.

The popularity of health and wellness apps and devices is being fueled more by fitness or activity trackers than clinically-focused tools to help manage chronic conditions.

Healthcare leaders say deploying tools for analytics, self-service, order fulfillment and more, while offering individualized experiences such as precision medicine, could promise a big payoff.

The Venture Fund challenge will award winners money, mentorship and the opportunity to pilot emerging technologies.   

(SPONSORED) As the second installment of the two-part series on digital health's impact on pharma, CEO Ryan Beckland addresses remote patient monitoring and patient-generated health data.

The hospital partnered with Techstars to create a three-month program to help startups working on technologies ranging from analytics of unstructured data to create artificial intelligence apps to virtual reality for improving inpatient experience.

Researchers say that pilot program demonstrates how readily available technologies can be used along with an EHR to improve communication between doctors and patients with type 1 diabetes.

(SPONSORED) Connected health is beginning to take hold. More than 50 percent of hospitals now use three or more connected health technologies such as patient portals, patient education/engagement apps, remote patient monitoring and others, according to the 2016 HIMSS Connected Health Survey.

The software giant debuted cognitive computing and machine learning tools on Wednesday with an eye toward "reinventing" healthcare.