Kaiser Health News

In a Q&A with Kaiser Health News, Eric Topol talks about using technology to change the dynamic between the patient and the doctor

Next time you're on the operating table and you have one last look around as the anesthesiologist approaches, don't be too sure that that person in scrubs looking at a smartphone is pulling up vital health data.

Donna Miles didn't feel like getting dressed and driving to her physician's office or to a retailer's health clinic near her Cincinnati home.

This Kaiser Health News report takes a look at a research project in Providence that tested how the high-tech smartglasses could be used in one of the busiest units of the hospital

While it's not likely that a medical device can be reprogrammed to kill -- as happened on one TV series a few years back -- there are concerns that devices could someday be compromised. Kaiser Health News takes a closer look at this disturbing scenario.

Tens of thousands of people have been treated by ZDoggMD - at least to a few laughs. Using satire, rap and sometimes, a Michael Jackson glove, hospitalist Dr. Zubin Damania takes his alter ego, ZDoggMD, to YouTube to sing about everything from insurance paperwork to prostate cancer.

Hospitals are usually eager to embrace the latest medical technology, but the road to deploying tablet computers has been bumpy.