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Personal health record software and services

• Craft employee wellness programs for better population health

  Inclusion of wearable devices, EHR integration and analytics data are a few items providers consider when forming a wellness plan for employees. Continue Reading

• Open data group steps up from Health Datapalooza

  Chris Boone, new executive director of Health Data Consortium, is boosting group's profile from stager of Health Datapalooza to Capitol Hill player. Continue Reading

• Universal apps invite thoughts of healthcare utilization

  Universal applications, built to work on different mobile devices, could have a future in healthcare. Find out when and where they might pop up. Continue Reading

• Wearable healthcare devices garner innovation awards at CES

  A wearable device designed to measure a baby's heart rate and temperature was one of the winning healthcare gadgets at this year's CES. Continue Reading

• Apple, Google make investments in mHealth devices

  Google and Apple are two major technology players that are posturing for consumers' attention in mHealth device market. Continue Reading

• Healthcare innovation creating undue expectations

  The healthcare industry should put security first when integrating new software and hardware into care and business processes.Continue Reading

• Retail health clinics carve out convenient niche

  Short wait times and affordable prices are two of the reasons patients are stopping into retail health clinics for minor afflictions or checkups.Continue Reading

• Six myths healthcare startups should ignore

  Creating a product that solves a noted problem can be enough for healthcare startups to get off the ground, despite what common healthcare myths would lead you to believe.Continue Reading

• Technology can shrink the risks of off-label drug use

  Prescribing medications for off-label use is legal, but it's rarely reimbursed and it's under-researched. Patients will have to rely on each other to learn more about it.Continue Reading

• Patient portals create interoperability puzzles

  How mobile operating systems, EHR vendor interaction and health system implementations complicate patient portal interoperability.Continue Reading

• FDA mHealth app regulation: A developer's perspective

  Joseph Cafazzo of the University of Toronto represents both a healthcare provider and an mHealth app developer. His reaction to the FDA's approach to the U.S. app market: What's safe for the patient?Continue Reading

• Apple's HealthKit mHealth platform linked with Mayo Clinic, Epic

  One of Apple's headlining announcements at their Worldwide Developers Conference was the unveiling of HealthKit, an mHealth platform.Continue Reading

• Survey finds top mobile healthcare apps offer ubiquity, security

  Internal research from Fiberlink Communications on the most popular healthcare apps offers insight into what users value most in an application.Continue Reading

• Six areas of concern for every mHealth app developer

  Ease of use, integration into care and level of specificity are a few metrics by which the success of an mHeath app can be determined.Continue Reading

• At HIMSS 2014, mHealth trends remain under focus

  A blast of new products and educational presentations at HIMSS 2014 highlighted some impressive trends in the growing mHealth market.Continue Reading