As telemedicine continues to broaden its footprint across healthcare delivery in America, the needs of the digitally savvy public are an essential factor to consider when developing and launching a telehealth program.

The radiology department at New York University School of Medicine in New York City has joined forces with Facebook to launch fastMRI, a collaborative research project applying artificial intelligence to MRI scans.

CBS aired a new episode of its documentary TV series "Whistleblower" Aug. 17, which described the New York City Health Department worker who found serious flaws in eClinicalWorks' EHR.

Amar Gupta, PhD, a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, told WRVO that there is a practical use for telemedicine that many healthcare organizations haven't yet realized: a 24-hour "knowledge factory."

Nurx, a telemedicine platform, unveiled a new at-home laboratory testing kit for patients seeking PrEP, a medication that helps prevent HIV-negative people from becoming infected.

All three major publicly-traded EHR vendors saw their stock prices rise last week.

Here are five recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives:

Chris Joerg, chief information security officer at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, discusses the importance of hospital data protection and what to do when there’s a breach in security.

Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical System partnered with Real Time Medical Systems, a healthcare interventional analytics company.

The Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control Systems-Cyber Emergency Response Team issued an alert Aug. 14 about cybersecurity vulnerabilities in some Philips-made medical devices, HealthcareInfoSecurity reports.