The Office of the National Coordination for Health Information Technology (ONC) and HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) are pushing for increased interoperability and fewer hurdles when it comes to sharing health information.

Rural healthcare providers and facilities face numerous geographic obstacles to providing adequate care. Researchers showed how telehealth videoconferencing can connect remotely located VA medical centers with infectious disease experts to improve antibiotic stewardship.

Theranos, the Silicon Valley-based blood-testing startup that was once valued at $9 billion, is dissolving.

As hospital entities continue to grow larger through mergers and acquisitions, lawmakers want to know what impact such consolidation has on the Medicare program and beneficiaries.

A mobile application can help healthcare professionals make genetic evaluations by using a snapshot of a person’s face, artificial intelligence and insights from real patients and genetics experts.

According to a report by the Washington Post, the rapid progress with cerebral organoids has prompted calls for an ethics debate surrounding the research behind organoids and the possibility of them eventually having a consciousness.

For people who are blind or have vision problems, the creation of a bionic eye offers hope that one day they’ll be able to see or see better. That hope just got a little closer to reality with the creation of a 3D-printed prototype of a bionic eye.

Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner revealed the company is hoping to develop a “single shared network of healthcare data” in an effort to solve interoperability issues between healthcare systems, according to a report by the Capital Times.