Category: eHealth

As healthcare organizations seek to boost consumer engagement, it’s important to understand how traditional policies on access to health information might cause roadblocks, according to a… read more …read more    

Medical devices now will be subject to scrutiny from the Office of the Inspector General, according to OIG’s 2014 work plan. read more …read more    

Robert Bosch Healthcare Systems, Inc., the market leader in evidence-based telehealth solutions, today announced the that it has received certification for program design in Disease Management for 16 Health Management Programs (HMPs) that it submitted to the National Committee for Quality Assurance. …read more    

A feasibility study across three countries–Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States–finds that smartphone-based smoking cessation apps are a promising medium to reach smokers, according… read more …read more    

Congressional efforts to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and to limit the FDA’s statutory authority in regulating clinical and health software are not restricted to the House of… read more …read more    

Driven by the growth of sports, fitness and health applications, 90 million wearable computing devices will be shipped this year, according to an announcement from ABI Research. Though the commercial… read more …read more    

By Raymond Hino, CEO, Bear Valley Community Healthcare District I recently attended a focus group session on best practices for innovation in large organizations. The session, sponsored by the… read more …read more    

The U.S. healthcare system isn’t a catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina, but it’s a slow boil, Karen DeSalvo, National Coordinator for Health IT, said Thursday during Health Care Innovation Day in Washington, D.C. read more …read more