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Jeffrey L. Brown, M.S., CIO of Lawrence General Hospital in Lawrence, Mass., talks about breach prevention through employee education, the expense of device encryption and mobile security at the 2013 Privacy and Security Forum in Boston.

Every country, every government, every population is participating in a global trial and error when it comes to improving health outcomes. As it finds uptake around the world, health information technology is central to this care revolution, with nations learning from each others' struggles and successes.

Mobile personal health records may be on the uptick in the near future. But before consumers are able to access PHRs at their fingertips from virtually any location, there are some big barriers standing in the way, according to new research by Frost and Sullivan.

Cleveland is a city that prides itself on being a city of firsts. HIMSS leaders are also used to firsts -- and to innovation and disruption. With their new HIMSS Innovation Center, they make no bones about their intent to shake things up in healthcare.

A non-profit organization focused on Internet security is looking to develop a set of benchmarks to protect medical devices from potentially fatal cyber attacks.

Royal Philips and Accenture announced Thursday they would partner to study the creation of a proof-of-concept demonstration that uses a Google Glass head-mounted display for researching ways to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of performing surgical procedures.

With bring your own device policies at healthcare organizations seeing an upward trend across the country, many say there's good reason to be apprehensive -- resistant even -- to the BYOD movement.

Boston Children's Hospital is going global with its pediatric care, already renowned around the world. The idea is to give more children, regardless of where they live, the best care possible and to share expertise that can help save lives.

mHealth advocates are giving good early reviews to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's final guidance document on the regulation of mobile medical apps, with one expert calling it "an expansive document that truly seeks to deregulate our nimble and innovative industry, while ensuring patient safety."

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued final guidance for mobile medical application developers, promising limited regulation for most health and wellness apps while applying risk-based standards to diagnostic and quasi-medical device apps.