health care

The bring-your-own device strategy has been embraced by businesses because staffers are walking into offices toting tablets and sophisticated handsets. But is it the right strategy for a hospital, with its expectation for controlling sensitive patient data?

Cisco and Walgreens are setting up a healthcare center for as many as 43,000 Cisco employees and their family members that will offer virtual physician visits via video conferencing and other Web 2.0-enabled tools.

Rite Aid said today that it's installed kiosks in Detroit-area stores that allow customers to engage in online chats with physicians.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday issued draft rules for how states should establish affordable health insurance exchanges, which will create marketplaces where individuals and businesses can compare private insurance plans.

A neurology patient at a Texas hospital may soon find doctors handing him an iPad with game-like apps on it to test his motor skills. Nurses will be able to roam bedsides while remotely checking electrocardiograms, or EKGs, on their iPads. Doctors are already sharing medical records on iPads with their peers, in order to discuss patient care.

Pharmaceutical manufacturers face increasing pressure to refine their strategic and operational approach to sales and marketing. This need is motivated by a quickly changing industry landscape driven by healthcare reform (HCR) and an expanding web of strict government regulations. This includes gift ban laws, aggregate spend compliance/sunshine laws on both the state and the federal level, and diminishing physician availability because of HCR (i.e., 32 million new "covered" patients set to phase into the healthcare system).

Getting the straight scoop on iPad enterprise adoption isn't as easy as it seems.

The Heritage Provider Network wants to do for healthcare what technology in the film "Minority Report" did for police work.

The game-show playing supercomputer Watson is expected to do much more than make a name for itself on Jeopardy.

Three employees at Tucson's University Medical Center have been fired for improperly accessing the medical records of some of the victims in Saturday's shooting spree that killed six people and wounded 14, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Gifford

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management wants to collect (and store) healthcare claims of millions of Americans. How concerned about privacy should you be?

Neurologists diagnose patients remotely using images delivered to smartphones.