Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed reports the company has been working with researchers at Stanford (Calif.) University to equip the Apple Watch with a heart rate sensor to detect abnormal heart beats, like arrhythmias, Sept. 12.

In today’s healthcare provider landscape, it is critical for health systems to share information with their regional affiliates so both organizations can have a clear picture of their patients’ health in order to deliver the highest-quality of care.

Nurse call management software has become increasingly sophisticated enabling modern nurse call systems, which were previously manual, to become fully automated through an array of advanced applications.

Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Health launched remote intensive care unit services through a partnership with Advanced ICU Care, a telemedicine and patient monitoring provider.

Arlington Heights, Ill.-based Northwest Community Healthcare added telemedicine services to its pediatric emergency department through a partnership with Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

The Duke University Margolis Center for Health Policy in Washington, D.C., convened a working group of healthcare and mHealth experts to investigate how to improve mHealth adoption in medical research.

Two pieces of legislation — HIPAA and the Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health Act — that were meant to facilitate health information exchange have actually hampered the flow of data, wrote Niam Yaraghi, a fellow at Washington, D.C.-based…

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Sept. 25 that commits at least $200 million in grant funding each year to science, technology, engineering and math education, with a focus on computer science programs, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at…

The Government Services Administration's Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories redefined the scope of its special item number 520-20, its official SIN for data breach response and identity protection services.  

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., is urging both the public and private sectors to up their cybersecurity efforts after the Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed a hack to its reporting system that may have enabled insider trading, reports The Hill.