The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has had its hands full lately. Thats just as well. There are decisions to be made that will affect everything from devices for mobile health to content delivery. The debate over what constitutes a medical device has not gone away. If anything, its more vital than ever to figure this out.  

Giving chronic heart failure patients access to telephone or telemonitoring with wireless technology decreases mortality and hospitalizations, as well as improves cost effectiveness and quality of life, according to a meta-analysis of 25 peer-reviewed studies published in this month's Cochrane Systematic Review.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary awarded $159.1 million in healthcare workforce training program grants to train nurses and geriatric specialists in order to improve the performance and recruitment of under-represented minority students.

SXC Health Solutions has completed the development and testing of software to support the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) version D.0 of the NCPDP Telecommunication Standard.

Ingenix, a health IT and services company, has acquired Executive Health Resources, a developer of medical necessity compliance and physician medical management technologies for hospitals.

Boston Scientific has begun patient enrollment in the EVOLVE clinical trial, which is designed to assess the safety and performance of its Synergy coronary stent, which uses a bioabsorbable PLGA polymer and everolimus drug formulation to create a uniform coating confined to the outer surface of the stent.

IBM and ActiveHealth Management, an Aetna subsidiary, have unveiled a new cloud computing and clinical decision support tool, Collaborative Care Solution, to give physicians and patients access to needed clinical data.

Nintey-five percent of high school sports-related fractures required diagnostic imaging, including x-rays, MRIs and CT scans, and 16 percent required surgical repair, found a recent study published in the July issue of Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine.