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The app, part of a broader strategy to make the hospital’s medical knowledge available to consumers, can offer simple advice about fever and medication to parents. 

Multi-agency collaboration aim to help app developers stay aware of consumer privacy and safety protections, while still enabling innovation, officials say.

Pfizer and IBM are teaming up to combat Parkinson's Disease with analytics and the IoT, the companies announced Thursday.

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.   

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.