BOSTON—“Wearables are irrelevant for what we need to do,” said Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, vice provost for global initiatives and chair of the department of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania. Emanuel spoke during the 2015 Connected Health Symposium held by Partners HealthCare.

BOSTON—Predicting the future is becoming more and more futile, said Joichi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, speaking at the Connected Health Symposium, held by Partners HealthCare.

Aramark, the $15 billion provider of services in food, facilities management and uniforms, is growing its healthcare sector, with two new contracts with Kennedy Health in New Jersey and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee, and expanded relationships two existing partners, Thomas Jefferson University Health System and the Einstein Healthcare Network, both in the Philadelphia area.

Cleveland Clinic has unveiled its 10th annual listing of the 10 most powerful medical innovations for 2016. 

A prehospital communication system for incoming ambulances is the winner of the third annual New Ventures Healthcare Challenge hosted by Cleveland Clinic Innovations.

The Leapfrog Group's annual Hospital Safety Scores indicate that improvements in patient safety remain elusive. 

The more digital health tools are adopted, the greater the disparities among at-risk populations, according to a study published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

HIMSS, AHIMA and IHE have banded together to produce a report that's meant to serve as a guide for those working on developing interoperability standards.