Healthgrades has named 466 U.S. hospitals recipients of its Patient Safety Excellence and Outstanding Patient Experience awards.  

Konica Minolta Business Innovation Center (BIC) has set its sights on digital health, launching a telemedicine pilot and announcing plans to seek investments and acquisitions. 

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is holding the Mood Challenge for ResearchKit, calling upon researchers and technologists to submit proposals for ResearchKit studies that will further understanding of mood and how it relates to daily life. 

Reducing the amount of time between diagnosis and surgery in breast cancer patients can improve survival rates, according to results of a study recently published in JAMA Oncology.

A more highly individualized customer experience could drive revenue up by 16 percent, according to C-suite executives in a study conducted by Oracle. 

It’s helpful when clinicians provide patients with basic information about their various treatment options. According to a recent analysis published by Health Affairs, however, patients benefit the most from patient-clinician interaction that involves an actual back-and-forth conversation.

Nashville will be the home of the Center for Medical Interoperability, according to an interview with its executive director, Ed Cantwell, published in the Nashville Business Journal.

After announcing plans last October to launch a digital health accelerator, Cedars-Sinai and its partner Techstars have announced the 11 companies that will join its first accelerator class.