King's Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven, Miss., and St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, Miss., have partnered to offer patients telemedicine services, according to a news release.

Proteus Digital Health, the manufacturer of what it calls 'digital medicine,' has raised $120 million in its most recent round of funding.

Los Angeles-based Sharper Future, a private mental health service provider, has notified its patients of a potential data security breach after electronic equipment storing patient records was stolen from the facilities.

Top-ranking Republican Congressmen have begun to question whether the ONC has the authority to open a new center, which the lawmakers say would regulate health IT software and products and possibly impose fees on IT vendors.

Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth has released its 2014 PayerView report, a ranking of private and government payers garnered from the company's cloud-based databank of national network providers.

  On Monday, Apple introduced HealthKit, a mobile platform that combines data from other health-tracking apps and displays composite information in a dashboard format through a new app, simply called Health.

In a May 21 CIO Senior Leadership Series webinar hosted by Becker's Hospital Review, Lee Carmen, CIO of University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City and David Chou, CIO of University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, provided insight and…

GE Healthcare has announced it will partner with Real Time Medical, a workflow management software solutions developer, to provide pathologists solutions that facilitate coordination.

Implementing a medication reconciliation tool in a hospital's electronic medical record can help reduce the number of medication errors by nearly 60 percent, according to a study at Boston Children's Hospital.

  The majority of pediatric hospitalists — 91 percent — use smartphones, and nearly 60 percent sent or received work-related text messages on their personal smartphones, according to a study in Telemedicine and e-Health.