The FDA has issued draft guidance to provide clarity on how the agency evaluates medical devices that electronically connect and interact with other devices or systems.

A new report names interoperability as the biggest challenge facing accountable care organizations (ACOs).

The U.S. Senate's Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee has released a discussion draft of legislation that aims to improve the overall use and development of health IT.

The mosquito-borne Zika virus has been much in the news of late, with reports pouring in of several new cases in the U.S. and, perhaps most alarmingly, a connection to infant brain defects in Brazil.

Despite its immense institutional know-how and its pure heft—11 hospitals, 5,000 medical staffers, $4 billion in net revenues—the Hospital Corporation of America’s multi-state, Denver-based Continental Division still found itself sending CDs and printouts via, among other low-tech image-sharing options, the chests of patients in ambulances and helicopters.

CHIME has launched its National Patient ID Challenge, a $1million crowdsourcing competition encouraging innovators to develop a private, accurate and safe solution for identifying patients. CHIME has teamed with HeroX, co-founded in 2013 by XPRIZE CEO Peter Diamandis, to run the year-long competition.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is accepting public comments on the recently released 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory until March 21.

Health IT venture capital (VC) funding totaled $4.6 billion in 574 deals in 2015, slightly below 2014’s record $4.7 billion in 670 deals, according to a report from Mercom Capitol Group.