Royal Philips has divided into two companies — one focused on lighting solutions and one that combines its consumer and professional healthcare offerings into one company, called HealthTech.

Investments in digital health companies is expected to reach $6.5 billion by 2017, up from $3.5 billion in 2014, according to a report from Accenture.

Just 15 percent of healthcare providers believe the use of unique health plan identifiers improves electronic transactions, according to a new survey from the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange.

A new bill that aims to provide additional incentives for accountable care organization successes includes several provisions that would allow ACOs to expand their telemedicine efforts.

When Pittsburgh-based UPMC launched its patient portal eight years ago, one of the main challenges was overcoming physician resistance to sharing uncensored medical data with patients.

Who owns patient health records? Physicians and patients have different answers, according to a recent WebMD/Medscape survey.

Providers may share patient information with a same-sex spouse just as they would with an opposite-sex spouse, according to a new interpretation of HIPAA by HHS.

Privia Health, the maker of practice management and population health software, has raised $400 million in funding.

Because an issue with the CMS website may prevent some eligible professionals who are attesting to meaningful use for the first time from meeting the deadline, the Medical Group Management Association and two Congressmen are lobbying CMS to extend the…

Full Circle Health Care's EHR vendor has blocked the practices' access to their patients' medical records as part of an ongoing billing dispute, according to a report in The Boston Globe.