Fitbit, Jawbone and the Microsoft Band—these fitness trackers have exploded on the scene for weight loss. Millions of people track their steps and enter their diets in these apps as a way to lose those extra pounds, but do these wearables actually help us lose more weight than if we had just dieted and exercised alone?

Incentive care units may be critical departments in any hospital, but as STAT’s Usha Lee McFarling writes, they haven’t changed much in the past few decades.Unless you count adding more alarms.

Surescripts, a developer of health information networks, has announced it will give electronic health record (EHR) vendors access to its National Record Locator Service (NRLS) until 2019, increasing interoperability.

Mobile technology has taken the healthcare industry by storm at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital the technology has been grown from the ground up to make the hospital almost entirely mobile based.

Recently, both the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed amicus briefs with the US Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit supporting Teladoc’s case against the Texas Medical Board (TMB). 

According to a CDC report, the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics is on the rise in U.S. hospitals, even as concerns of antibiotic-resistant bacteria grow. The study’s findings were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine Sept. 19. 

Maryland Health Connection, the state's Affordable Care Act exchange, has announced its new mobile application, Enroll MHC, is ready just in time for open enrollment.

Reinsurance Group of America Incorporated (RGA) and roadtohealth are partnering up to continue development of the Quealth app, a digital health coach capable of accessing health risks.