Erin McCann

Adoption numbers are on the rise. Analysts are predicting the market to continue its explosive growth. Here's a look at the key factors creating those conditions and some of the issues emerging as telemedicine continues expanding.

California-based Sutter health joins a pair of venture capital firms in sinking almost $24 million into MDLIVE's cloud-based platform, which gives consumers with non-emergency health issues instant access to a physician via phone, e-mail or video-conference.

Likely happenings in the next 12 months will have major implications for mHealth, BYOD, cloud computing and, of course, HIPAA.

Karen DeSalvo, MD, will take over national coordinator for health information technology, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced this morning. DeSalvo is the health commissioner for the City of New Orleans and is experienced in healthcare and Health IT.

Healthcare has been mobilized for years, yet today's mHealth market still has a long way to go. Lessons in personalization, entertainment and understanding demographics can help.

The power of mHealth to sensitive issues - such as STDs - was on full display during Monday's Health 2.0 session at the 2013 mHealth Summit.

A California appeals court has ruled that University of California Regents aren't to be held accountable for a lost hard drive containing personal health information of some 16,000 patients.court

Speaking at this week's HIMSS Privacy and Security Forum in Boston, Kevin Johnson of Secure Ideas said those popular "bring your own device" policies might be doing more harm than good.

Officials at Oregon Health & Science University say HIPAA-protected information for some 3,000 patients was compromised when residents and physicians-in-training used cloud-based spreadsheets to keep track of patients.

The two new apps are designed to help physicians track payments and other value transfers to meet requirements of the Physician Sunshine Act, which goes into effect next month.