A texting intervention with a group of patients at risk for heart disease led to significant increases in physical activity levels, according to a study published by the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Siemens Healthcare is the 20th tenant-partner of the Global Center for Health Innovation in Cleveland.  

Atam Dhawan, the New Jersey Institute of Technology's vice provost for research, will help lead a federal initiative to map out strategies for better integrating point-of-care technologies (POC) such as heart monitors, cancer-testing kits and rehabilitation devices into the healthcare delivery system.

Innovation is on the minds of everyone in healthcare, it seems, and with good reason.

Innovation, behavioral health, cybersecurity and consolidation are some of the trends that will be impacting healthcare in 2016, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC’s) Health Research Institute.

“It’s not technology that’s holding us back. It’s business practice,” said Andy Slavitt, acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, speaking at the Bipartisan Policy Center’s program on interoperability.

“Everywhere I go, I feel a sense of urgency” about interoperability, said Karen DeSalvo, MD, MSc, MPH, national coordinator for health IT, speaking at the Bipartisan Policy Center’s program on interoperability.

A new interoperability framework includes legal terms, policy requirements, technical specifications and governance processes to operationalize data sharing for health information exchange (HIE) networks, vendors, payers and others in the healthcare industry to help them improve their connectivity.