Telemedicine has the potential to improve access to care and ease the physician shortage. However, physician licensing and other regulations, a lack of reimbursement parity laws and other obstacles have hindered telemedicine's expansion.

While rewards or incentives may be successful in encouraging patients to enroll in online health management programs, they may not be enough to keep patients engaged in the program, according to a new study in the Journal of Medical Internet…

An association of pediatricians in the Portland area has launched an online tool that will help pediatricians better track their patients' health across care settings.

McKesson has reported revenues of $44.1 billion for the three months ended June 30, up 37 percent compared with the same period last year.

Health IT vendor M*Modal, which filed for Chapter 11 in early March, has completed its financial restructuring and emerged from bankruptcy.

  Over the past few years, hospitals and health systems have been acquiring IT products at unprecedented rates. Below are 25 things to know about trends in IT investments.

The three will emerge as healthcare's ruling triumvirate. Here's why. Apple and IBM recently announced they were putting aside their 1980s rivalry to come together to develop a new set of business-facing mobile apps for iOS powered by IBM's big…

Right now, mHealth is the darling of the already booming health IT market. In the second quarter of 2014, health IT companies raised $1.8 billion in venture capital. The most money went toward mobile health companies — $401 million over…

National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD, jumped to the defense of electronic health records after a Boston Globe article highlighted their role in patient safety events.

About half of healthcare providers currently offer direct-to-consumer online medical services, according to a recent poll from the American Telemedicine Association.