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Customized weight loss startup Retrofit nets $5M
By Aditi Pai | 11:16 am | December 20, 2013
10 tips for building secure mHealth apps
By Lauren Still | 09:31 am | December 20, 2013
Mobile health applications bring an entirely new set of challenges. Consider this advice for making them both secure and usable.
Security predictions 2014: Uptick in mobile malware
By Erin McCann | 09:21 am | December 20, 2013
Likely happenings in the next 12 months will have major implications for mHealth, BYOD, cloud computing and, of course, HIPAA.
HHS names new ONC chief
By Erin McCann | 01:42 pm | December 19, 2013
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.
Readers weigh in on Happtique suspension, mTrials, devices for seniors
By Brian Dolan | 04:16 am | December 19, 2013
Home telehealth helps specialists reach Parkinson's patients
By Neil Versel | 03:00 am | December 19, 2013
What HealthCare.gov, exchanges should learn from mHealth
By Bill Marshall | 05:20 pm | December 18, 2013
Bill Marshall, of Pega Healthcare Solutions, sees similarities between the problems faced by health insurance exchanges and tthe lessons learned by successful mHealth companies.
Beddit opens online store for additional preorders
By Jonah Comstock | 01:15 pm | December 18, 2013
Maxwell nets $6M for mobile benefits management
By Jonah Comstock | 12:03 pm | December 18, 2013
Doctors, devices and data: How to sort it all out
By Eric Wicklund | 11:15 am | December 18, 2013
Covidien's newest software platform is designed to enable doctors in the hospital setting to pull data from devices at the bedside, determine what's important, then send that information on to the EMR.