Boston Children's Hospital's second annual innovation summit will take place Oct. 30-31 in Boston. The summit is designed to bring together thought leaders in healthcare and technology to share ideas and discuss opportunities for innovation.

Patients may be more honest with a computer about their medical history than they would be with a physician, according to a study in Computers in Human Behavior.

Allscripts has partnered with CSC and HP to bid on the $11 billion Department of Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract to build the department's next health information system.

Verizon has launched a new telemedicine service that allows users to receive on-demand care for common, acute conditions.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a roundtable event Tuesday to discuss how Congress can strike the best balance between regulatory concerns and the promotion of healthcare technology and innovation.

According to a HIMSS survey, the average hospital's IT budget is increasing. However, this increase is most often due to the overall growth of IT systems in the organizations and the costs of meeting regulatory requirements, and leaving little room…

It's not just large, multi-state systems that innovate.

  According to data CMS released earlier this month, a total of 75 hospitals have attested to meaningful use during the 2014 reporting year, and eight of those have attested to meaningful use stage 2.

In fiscal year 2013, 608,900 patients in Veterans Affairs Medical Centers and community-based outpatient clinics received care through VA telehealth services, equaling a total of approximately 1,790,000 telehealth episodes of care, according to a Telehealth Services in the United States…

Currently, about 61 percent of all U.S. physicians use electronic health record software, according to a new infographic from the Berkeley (Calif.) School of Information.