Telehealth

A new study by the Scripps Translational Science Institute has found no short-term benefit in health costs or outcomes for patients who monitored their health with connected devices, whcih comes as a blow to the booming mobile health market. 

Patient engagement isn't always about patient portals. "In fact, most of the time it's not," said Pamela DeSalvo Landis, vice president of information services at Carolinas HealthCare System, the second largest public, nonprofit healthcare system in the United States.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued draft guidance outlining steps medical device manufacturers should take to counter cybersecurity threats.

Healthcare IT News and HIMSS are accepting speaker proposals for the Privacy & Security Forum in Los Angeles, May 11-12, 2016.

As physicians and hospitals move toward a more consumer-focused care model, experts say successful integration with mobile health faces challenges -- not just with technology, but also with processes.

Just a month after receiving an investment from healthcare giant HCA, Nashville-based cognitive Digital Reasoning has acquired Shareable, a fellow Music City tech company known for its clinical documentation platform.

Marin General Hospital has entered a 15-year, $90 million agreement with Philips to roll out an array of technologies including clinical informatics, patient monitoring, telehealth and imaging.

The Arkansas Antenatal and Neonatal Guidelines, Education and Learning System, otherwise known as ANGELS, has seen big gains in improving the state’s access to care and reducing infant mortality rates.

Microsoft has been building health-centric features into its stable of products and heading into HIMSS16 is also hoping to tap into the show’s overarching trends: patient engagement, telehealth and wearables.

MedStar Health, the largest not-for-profit healthcare organization in the Maryland and Washington, D.C., region, is collaborating with Uber to increase access to health appointments.