A recent RAND report discussing various innovations within the healthcare industry points out that while electronic health records have been shown to improve patient care they are also a new source of medical errors.

  According to data released last week by CMS, 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.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., is poised to launch a new virtual clinic designed to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions by monitoring high-risk patients remotely, according to an article in the Brattleboro Reformer.

In an article in The Wall Street Journal, Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, senior vice president for patient safety and quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, blamed the often conflicting and confusing clinical quality data from hospitals on a lack…

Health IT can be an excellent tool in improving efficiency in healthcare, but it can also pose significant risks to patient safety when something goes awry. "When not used appropriately, [health IT] can add a layer of complexity to an…

The following stories on telemedicine were compiled from Becker's Hospital Review coverage over the past two weeks, starting with the most recent.

The following is a roundup of recently launched mHealth apps, reported in the past week.

So far this year, venture capitalists have invested more than $2 billion into digital health start-ups, the largest sum to date, according to Rock Health, a San Francisco-based venture capitalist firm.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Drchrono, a start-up electronic health record company, has developed an app compatible with Google Glass that allows physicians to essentially wear the EHR, according to a Reuters report.

The American Hospital Association has sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget indicating its support for CMS to develop a public health database that electronically collects the data hospitals are required to submit to meet meaningful use…