Mayo Clinic researchers have taken a close look at the professional effort of their institution’s own physicians in Minnesota, Arizona and Florida—and found a strong association between high burnout levels and reduced work hours. 

The number of consumers using personal health record (PHR) functionalities has jumped from 8 million Americans in 2008 to 31 million by 2013, according to findings published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

While health IT has the potential to improve patient safety, increase efficiency and reduce the cost of care, lack of proper implementation is preventing the realization of those benefits, according to a University of Missouri School of Medicine researcher.

The spree of hostage-takings at hospitals, in which hackers plant ransomware and then demand payoffs for the release of affected computers, may be growing fast and hurting the victim hospitals more than some of them have let on.

Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has launched the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, an institute entirely devoted to researching cancer treatment, with $125 million in donations.

GE and Santa Clara University’s Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship have established a partnership that combines Silicon Valley entrepreneurship with venture impact investing to address maternal and child health.

Fifty-nine percent of consumers who use digital health apps and tools suffer from a chronic condition, but only 7 percent are using a disease management tool, according to a March HealthMine survey of 500 insured consumers.

The U.S. market for active aging technology now encompasses 85 million Americans or more than one quarter of the national population, according to a new report from the Consumer Technology Association and the CTA Foundation.