The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released draft guidance outlining the agency's new position that hardware and software products that store or transfer medical data and images are 'low risk' and therefore do not need FDA regulation.

Earlier this month, Apple introduced HealthKit, a mobile health-tracking platform that will be included in iOS 8.

Disputes between healthcare organizations and IT vendors are becoming more common with the increased use of technology such as electronic health records. Michael Dagley, an attorney who specializes in software disputes at Nashville, Tenn.-based Bass, Berry & Sims, says vendors…

Here are seven key findings on breaches of unsecured protected health information for 2011 and 2012, according to HHS' most recent data breach report to Congress.

More than three in four clinicians use a smartphone or tablet for professional purposes, according to a new report from athenahealth and Epocrates.

Once mostly found on the West Coast, health IT startups are emerging in Chicago and Miami, growing these cities' reputations as health technology hubs.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded pilot project is using telemedicine, and a clinical quality improvement structure designed by the ONC and the American Medical Association, to improve diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis C in rural areas.

For the fifth year in a row, the Epocrates mobile app was found to be the most popular medical reference app by Manhattan Research.

Of the 485 eligible physicians who have attested to meaningful use stage 2 so far this reporting year, 59.2 percent are athenahealth customers.

The following is a roundup of recent health IT vendor contracts reported in the past week.