The Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has issued two special emphasis notices of funding opportunities for researchers interested in studying the safe use of EHRs and health IT.

It’s where NASA technology meets mobile health innovation. Calif.-based mobile health developer Vantage Health is joining forces with Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI), a National Institutes of Health-sponsored consortium led by Scripps Health and the Scripps Research Institute, for the advancement of mobile health technology using cutting-edge space technology.

Ninety million wearable computing devices will be shipped this year, according to ABI Research, thanks to the growth of sports, fitness and health applications.

Interoperability was a big topic at the recent Health Care Innovation Day, an event jointly hosted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and West Health Institute.

Former congressional legislators announced the launch of a new alliance to promote policy reform around telehealth and remote patient monitoring.

The National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center has launched a program that aims to further development of mobile technology and research into how it can be used to improve health, especially in low-resource countries.

Several of the largest U.S. retail pharmacy chains and associations are pledging to support the Blue Button initiative to help patients access their prescription information, according to a post published on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy blog.

HomeTown Health, in partnership with the National School of Applied Telehealth, has partnered with The New College Institute (NCI) and the University of Virginia (UVA) Center for Telehealth to launch the first telehealth certification program in the state of Virginia.