With almost 3,000 Michigan doctors joining the Physician Organization of Michigan ACO, the organization now includes 5,700 providers from 12 physician groups based in 22 counties.

Developers of a new app that can turn any smartphone into a portable medical diagnostic device say the tool could help fight disease in the developing world.

The U.S. patient monitoring market—valued at more than $3.5 billion in 2013—will exceed $5.1 billion by 2020, according to a report from iData Research, a global medical device marketing firm.

WellPoint Inc.’s Cerritos, Calif.-based subsidiary CareMore and Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare say they will team up to expand CareMore’s model of care management for Medicare Advantage patients in Georgia.

The American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals have joined forces on changinglandscape.org, a new website that aims to explain how realignment and consolidation of hospital systems can help communities and patients.

PresbyHangouts is the application that won New York's first hospital-focused hackathon.

A bipartisan group of senators seek further clarity and transparency from the FDA regarding its mobile medical apps policy.

With an amendment inserted in the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act that likely will prevent its passage in the Senate, telehealth provisions also contained within the bill now are in limbo.