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…

Secure access management software vendor Imprivata plans to sell 5.75 million shares at $16 each during its upcoming initial public offering for an aggregate offering price of about $92 million.

Joy Pritts has tendered her resignation as the ONC’s chief privacy officer, effective July 12.