Hospital system HCA is acquiring Mobile Heartbeat, a developer of smartphone applications that improve clinical workflow and team communications.

The last few years have not been kind to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with stories about scheduling delays, long wait times and lack of patient access. As a way to deal with such issues, VA medical centers are implementing lean processes. A new study published by JAMA Surgery evaluated just how efficient these lean processes are, and if the VA is up to the challenge of caring for a growing number of veterans.

Between 2012 and 2015, the number of physician practices owned by hospitals or health systems rose by 86 percent, resulting in a quarter of all medical practices being hospital-owned.

Teenagers dread the idea of having "the talk" with their parents. Now, thanks to a new application, discussions of sexual health can take place on a platform adolescents won’t mind using. Researchers have developed an app that delivers information on sexual health to teen girls to boost knowledge and encourage healthy sexual practices.

GREENVILLE, S.C., Sept. 08, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- eRAD announced that it has added a new product to its comprehensive suite of imaging workflow solutions. Released today, RADAR Nudge is a bi-directional, secure collaborative messaging tool for communicating patient information among remote healthcare providers.

For those in rural areas, telemedicine may be the best option for receiving care from a specialist who may be inaccessible due to travel time. But is this remote care equal in quality to what one would receive from physically seeing a physician? Researchers aimed to answer this question in a new study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

As telemdicine continues to grow, physicians and patients alike are realizing how easy, convenient and affordable it is, while also coming to terms with its limitations. 

Preventing a stroke requires constant monitoring of atrial fibrillation and blood pressure, but these factors have yet to be incorporated into one device. AliveCor, a developer of mobile health services, has introduced a new app capable of performing an ECG while simultaneously monitoring blood pressure.