The majority of patients report positive feelings after viewing their laboratory results online, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the Journal of Participatory Medicine.

Medical technology companies need a new approach to innovation to keep their competitive edge, according to a report from PwC's Health Research Institute.

With healthcare providers under continuing pressure to provide better care at lower costs, remote cardiac monitoring devices are becoming popular and valuable patient care tools, fueling U.S. market growth expected to top more than 25 percent between 2011 and 2016.[1]  The devices enable cardiologists to monitor patients for extended periods of time outside the costly hospital environment, improving their ability to identify problems and provide early intervention that can support better outcomes and reduce the need for expensive future care.

The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Center for Advancing Translational Sciences awarded $18 million to Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., to advance translational medicine.

As the federal government shutdown continues with nearly 70 percent of Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) employees furloughed, athenaResearch will help fill the gap by sharing its data on communicable diseases, starting with the flu.

This week, we partnered with AMDIS and Elsevier to present the first AMDIS Fall Symposium which covered challenges and opportunities for health information exchange, EHRs, care coordination, the changing physician-patient relationship and more.

The outlook for health IT staffing is looking rosy, according to HIMSS’ 2013 Inaugural Workforce Survey.

Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Mass., has implemented continuous and contact-free monitoring on all general care beds.