Two more doctors have been indicted in an ongoing federal investigation into a kickback scheme that approached $1 billion in California.

An inpatient suicide intervention program, coupled with a personalized app that offers recovery strategies for distressed patients, reduced the rate of attempted suicides by almost half, according to a new study in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

In a push to improve health IT, CMS has doubled down on its efforts to support secure data sharing and emerging technologies by creating a new chief informatics officer role.

A new healthcare application tailored specifically for National Health Service (NHS) patients in the United Kingdom will provide safe, secure access to general practice (GP) records. The free application will be available to everyone in the U.K. in December.

In a push to improve health IT, CMS has doubled down on its efforts to support secure data sharing and emerging technologies by creating a new chief informatics officer role.

New research from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) suggests internal medicine residents who visited patient in their homes after hospital visits can better assess needs. The visits also helped them understand the role community services and agencies play in avoiding readmissions.

“Tele-stenting” appears more possible now than ever, as Vascular Robotics announced an interventional cardiologist used its CorPath GRX System to perform a remote percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in a pig 100 miles away.

ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit organization, has stepped in to maintain a national database of clinical best practices after HHS cut funding to the resource.