The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has consolidated two existing centers to form one new center focused on practice improvement.

BOSTON—Healthcare delivery organizations across the country have varied experience with telehealth and varying levels of success, according to a panel discussion during mHealth + Telehealth World 2014 on July 22.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates--MBM Health & Medical and GlobalMed® have signed a mutually exclusive alliance to provide connected health solutions in the Middle East. MBM Health & Medical is one of the group of companies of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Maktoum Bin Juma Al Maktoum which is dedicated to providing patients throughout the region access to the world’s best hospitals and healthcare in order to reduce costs and improve outcomes.

July decisions by courts in California and Illinois place limits on patient class-action suits when thieves steal computers containing protected personal health data.

Amid concerns among House Energy and Commerce Committee legislators that a proposed health IT safety center would engage in unauthorized regulatory activities, National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, defended the center, describing it as a “coordinating body.”

Alcon, the eye care division of Switzerland-based healthcare company Novartis, announced that it has entered into an agreement with Google to license its “smart lens” technology for all ocular medical uses.

Health IT is one "critical component" to establishing a successful accountable care organization, particularly those created by academic medical centers, according to a study published in Academic Medicine.

Mountain View, Calif., July 21, 2014 – drchrono, the creator of a free Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform on the iPad, iPhone and cloud, and breakthrough virtual visit tool AppVisit®, have announced a brand new product integration.