Nurses Week has its genesis in International Nurse Day, celebrated May 12, Florence Nightingale's birthday. In 1990, the American Nurses Association expanded the observance to seven days, declaring May 6 to May 12 National Nurses Week.

As part of the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge, 25 app developers have been using Watson's data processing capabilities to construct, test and refine their apps.

Electronic health record systems are the most prevalent in Hawaii, according to a new brief from the ONC.

As of 2011, 80 percent of federally-funded health centers had adopted an electronic health record system, according to a recent study in the Journal for Healthcare Quality.

To help diagnose medical conditions, San Francisco-based CrowdMed is offering users access to hundreds of online medical opinions from healthcare professionals, medical students and individuals with no medical education, according to a Mercury News report.

Florida's legislative session has ended without advancing provisions of an omnibus bill that promoted the use of telemedicine within the state by allowing physicians who were not licensed to practice medicine in Florida to provide telemedicine consultations within the state,…

Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Medical Center has notified patients their personal and health information may have been compromised when one of its employees improperly accessed their information, according to a Worcester Business Journal report.

In light of the implementation delay, CMS has canceled end-to-end ICD-10 testing scheduled to take place from July 21 through 25.

Johnson Controls has released a new series of thermostats, the WT-4000, which converts older pneumatic room control systems, allowing buildings with older control systems enter the digital space.

NorthBay Medical Center in Fairfield, Calif., is implementing Mobile Connect, a secure texting solution from Amcom Software.