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Congress asks FDA if "actual use" is factor in medical app regulation
By Brian Dolan | 05:46 pm | March 06, 2013
Putting the 'smart' in smartphones: Hospitals see many benefits in new platforms
By Eric Wicklund | 09:10 am | March 06, 2013
Voalté's Trey Lauderdale and Darren Dworkin of Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Health System tell a packed room at the 2013 HIMSS Conference and Exhibition how to launch a smartphone-based communications system in a hospital.
Topol takes a look at healthcare's digital future
By Eric Wicklund | 09:05 am | March 06, 2013
In a Tuesday morning keynote at the 2013 HIMSS Conference and Exhibition, Eric Topol illustrates the digital healthcare consumer of the future and explains how it'll mean the end of today's innefficient and unsafe population-based healthcare system.
Basis nabs $11.5M, recruits big names Chopra, Dyson
By Jonah Comstock | 08:22 am | March 06, 2013
Ford shows off its 'car that cares'
By Bernie Monegain | 04:09 pm | March 05, 2013
The automaker's SYNC technology, used to integrate mobile health tools and functions, is highlighted at a Tuesday morning HIT X.0 session at HIMSS13
Report: Fitbit raises $30 million at $300 million valuation
By Brian Dolan | 12:48 pm | March 05, 2013
HIMSS13 mHealth session explores federal policy issues
By Eric Wicklund | 08:21 am | March 05, 2013
The Monday morning education session brought attendees up to date on the many organizations that have a stake in mHealth regulation.
Allscripts names Open App Challenge winners at HIMSS13
By Eric Wicklund | 08:14 am | March 05, 2013
The company selects 15 finalists in the first phase of a contest to promote innovate mobile applications that can integrate directly with Allscripts electronic health record software.
Mobile might hold key to patient engagement in MU Stage 2
By Neil Versel | 03:59 am | March 05, 2013
Microsoft turns to partners to eschew "one size fits all" mentality
By Jonah Comstock | 03:54 am | March 05, 2013