With nearly two-thirds of Americans owning a smartphone, it's no surprise that SMS has become one of the most preferred communication methods among businesses for interacting with their customers.

As a former operating room nurse and nurse educator, I was pleased to see that this year's Nurses' Week theme is "the Balance of Mind, Body and Spirit."

Intel joined forces with three English institutions to identify cancer cells using artificial intelligence.

Nearly 30 percent of smokers who completed an mHealth cessation intervention refrained from smoking for at least 30 days following the program, according to a study in JMIR mHealth and uHealth.

Hashed Health added Les Wilkinson as chief development officer, according to a Nashville Post report.

Modernizing Medicine received $231 million in funding from Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm.

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology released new draft guidance titled Securing Wireless Infusion Pumps in Healthcare Delivery Organizations.

Twiage, a New York City-based health IT startup, won $5,000 in Matter's observation unit challenge.

Doctor On Demand, a San Francisco-based telemedicine provider, partnered with two laboratories — LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics — to provide consumers with diagnostic services.

MDLive, a Sunrise, Fla.-based telemedicine provider, filed a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit, sparking debate over privacy expectations in direct-to-consumer health apps, according to GovInfoSecurity.com.