Tech giant Amazon has reportedly received approval to become a wholesale pharmacy distributor in at least a dozen states, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

swyMed has partnered with the Commission on State Emergency Communications (CSEC) and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) to implement telehealth services between Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers and rural trauma centers in Texas.

In a place where the average highs are only in the 40s during the height of summer and where the sun isn’t visible from October through March, physicians have to be prepared for different kinds of incidents—like polar bear attacks.

Lexington, Massachusetts-based health IT security firm Imprivata has acquired the identity and access management business of Caradigm, a population health company run by GE Healthcare.

Researchers have developed a protein injection capable of blocking hunger and helping monkeys lose weight, according to Forbes.

David Shulkin, MD, secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), told a House committee the transition from its legacy electronic health record (EHR) to a new Cerner system will take seven to eight years.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has awarded the Regenstrief Institute with funding to study whether a health information exchange (HIE) improves patient outcomes in the emergency department (ED).

Scientist from the University of Surrey in the U.K. and China's Dalian University of Technology have developed smart nanoparticles capable of killing cancer cells and self-regulating heat to protect healthy tissue, according to a study published in Nanoscale.