With everyone and their mother trying to make a name for themselves in the technological world of app creation, why can’t physicians try it out too? Well now they are, by helping to develop applications from the minds on the front lines of healthcare, reports Forbes.

In a survey by Gallup, it was found that fewer Americans are struggling to afford healthcare. From 2008 to 2013 rates of those having difficulty paying for healthcare and medicine dropped form 18.7 percent to a new low of 15.5 percent.

Boston Children’s Hospital needs more space, many on its staff told the New York Times.

The U.S. is on pace to spend about $2.6 trillion less on healthcare between 2014 and 2019 than what was originally forecast by CMS in 2010 after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, according to a new study by the Urban Institute and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).

Retail clinics, behavioral health and the increasing popularity of narrow health networks will add up to a 6.5 percent growth in medical costs in 2017, the same as in 2016, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Health Research Institute.

As technology evolves and telemedicine is able to expand, more and more people are able to use these new innovations in ways that haven’t been seen before. Imagine a day at work when you’re feeling a bit sick and all you have to do is go into the lobby to consult with your doctor, well now you can as more and more offices are implementing telemedicine kiosks, reports Kaiser Health News. 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) denied a petition to use its “march-in rights” to help lower the cost of Xtandi, a drug to treated advanced prostate cancer.

A study, published by JAMA Internal medicine, has found that patient navigation as part of a population-based IT system is able to greatly increase screening rates for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer in patients at high risk for nonadherence with testing.