As hospitals and health systems increasingly look to remotely monitor patients for a variety of chronic conditions, Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is already tracking the diabetes of nearly 40,000 people from the comfort of their homes.

Accessing accurate data to support decisions throughout the care continuum is critical to providing better quality care and better patient experience, and improving outcomes. It is also important to improving margins in today's financially stressed healthcare system.

In a Dec. 1 opinion piece for Fast Company, Jordan Teicher, former director of communications at digital health company Cedar, argued there are three main reasons medtech is not a recession-proof business.

Artificial intelligence, telehealth and patient access are "top of mind" for health systems, according to a new report from the Center for Connected Medicine at Pittsburgh-based UPMC and KLAS Research.

From piloting a clinical search tool with Google Health to partnering with new health systems, here are seven updates on Meditech's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in November.

CMS is looking to create a national healthcare provider directory that would make it easier for Americans to find physicians and other providers.

Amazon Web Services and Chapel Hill, N.C.-based University of North Carolina's Eshelman Institute for Innovation are teaming up to help launch digital health startups.

Two SSM Health facilities in Illinois have installed an artificial intelligence-based weapons detection system in their emergency room entrances, WPSD Local reported Nov. 29. 

Cancer Focus Fund, a venture capital arm of Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has joined a $25 million series A funding round for Nectin Therapeutics, which develops novel immunotherapies.

An employee of University Medical Center of Southern Nevada inappropriately accessed its EHR system, allowing the individual to gain access to 1,861 patients medical records.