The good old days of "doctor knows best" are as good as gone, according to Eric Topol, renowned cardiologist at Scripps Translational Science Institute, in his new book, "The Patient Will See You Now."

Lexmark International has acquired Toronto-based Claron Technology, a leading provider of medical image viewing, distribution, sharing and collaboration software technology.

Accenture Federal Services has won a five-year, $563 million contract to continue its work on Healthcare.gov.

Genetic Alliance, a nonprofit health advocacy organization network, has received a $500,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to create and evaluate the effectiveness of a "white label" version of the Platform for Engaging Everyone Responsibly that allows individuals to share health data with researchers as they see fit.

BOCA RATON, Fla.--Modernizing Medicine, Inc., creator of the Electronic Medical Assistant® (EMA™), a cloud-based, specialty-specific electronic medical records (EMR) system, announced today that it completed an acquisition of Aesyntix Health, Inc. on Dec. 22, 2014.

A national technology company has made a $40,000 donation toward Georgia Institute of Technology's Interoperability & Integration Innovation Lab (I3L), a virtual and physical laboratory for health IT.

DANBURY, Conn.--New approaches for determining how much drugs should cost, and for setting the price for innovative treatments, were highlighted in a keynote presentation by Murray Aitken, IMS Health senior vice president and executive director of the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, at the Forbes Healthcare Summit held earlier this month in New York City.

More than one-third of U.S. consumers are uninformed about patient portals, according to findings in a survey conducted by Xerox.