Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina and Siemens Healthineers have formed a strategic partnership focused on enhancing value-based care through engineering innovations and workflow improvement.

In a recent press release, Partners HealthCare, Neighborhood Health Plan announced they have teamed up to offer new telehealth option.

Although many reports have attributed physicians leaving medicine to frustration with EHRs, a recent study in the forthcoming issue of Information Systems Research shows basic EHRs have increased the tenure of physicians' hospital-based careers.

Philips released a security alert Aug. 21 about "resource exhaustion" flaws that put some of its central patient monitoring systems at risk for denial-of-service attacks, HealthcareInfoSecurity reports.

To reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, many skilled nursing facilities have considered having primary care providers assess patients at bedside for changes in their condition. However, these providers are not always available on-site.

Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System opened what it calls the region's first "virtual hospital" in August.

Fitbit has collected 150 billion hours' worth of heart rate data from tens of millions of people across the globe, Yahoo Finance reports.

New York City, not San Francisco, may be the capital of the artificial intelligence space, according to an Indeed.com report cited by Bloomberg.

Google partnered with Labster, which makes virtual lab simulations and other science tools for educators, to open more than 30 labs on its Daydream virtual reality platform.

Google's parent company Alphabet launched Chronicle, a cybersecurity company, in January. Since then, the company has largely been silent about its work, until CNBC spoke with Chronicle CEO Stephen Gillett.