The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer has launched a research portal--the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP)--that includes health and biological data from 300,000 Canadians to help researchers study cancer and related chronic diseases.

Louisiana has created a Consumer Advisory Council that aims to engage residents of the state in the use of health IT to improve health and healthcare. 

The global telehealth market is expected to grow rapidly within the next five years and reach $6.5 billion by 2020, according to a Markets and Markets report. Currently valued at $2.2 billion, the market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 24.2 percent.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is seeking to conduct demonstration projects testing the capability and performance of a single-point data capture approach between EHRs and electronic data capture systems, according to a notice published in the June 26 Federal Register.

The FDA has released a draft guidance document intended to help medical device labelers and FDA staff understand the FDA's requirements for direct marketing of devices for unique device identificaiton purposes. 

Supplying patients with tools such as tablets and patient portal apps does not have a great impact on their understanding of their care and treatment, according to a study published in theJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Health information organizations are using Direct messaging in support of care coordination use cases but there is great variability in the method of access. 

More than half of U.S. residents want to access health information via their physicians' websites, but few currently do so, according to findings published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.