BOSTON—The rapid rise of ipods, iphones and similar devices over the past eight years shows that “things can change drastically and radically in a very short period of time,” said Eric Topol, MD, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and chief academic officer for Scripps Health in La Jolla, Calif., speaking at the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit.

Alarm hazards top The ECRI Institute's annual list of the top 10 health technology hazards--not a big surprise since several patient safety organizations already have identified alarms as a risk.

About half of clinical decision support alerts were overridden by providers and half of those were classified as appropriate, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

This week, we covered Partners HealthCare’s 10th Annual Connected Health Symposium, which focused on collaborations and innovations to engage patients and elevate care. Also this week, a healthcare system announced its plan to begin using ICD-10 ahead of schedule and medical apps were front and center.

From the changing relationship between providers and patients to improving care coordination through health information exchange, the first East Coast AMDIS meeting covered a wide range of health IT topics.

The remote patient monitoring market keeps climbing, largely due to its promise to reduce healthcare costs while improving health outcomes.

The incidence and cost of diabetes is growing at a brisk pace making patient engagement and care coordination vitally important.

The Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare, has launched Wellocracy, a clinically-based source of impartial, easy-to-understand information on new personal ‘self-health’ technologies such as health and fitness trackers and mobile apps.