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“With telemedicine, distance is no longer an impediment to receiving health care services from anywhere in Pennsylvania or across the country,” says State Senator Elder Vogel.

Experts compare existing paging methods within hospitals to "paved cowpaths."

"If this were a drug that had a survival advantage of this magnitude, it would be retail priced at hundreds of thousands of dollars."

Recent reports of a new team at the FDA that will try to match healthtech's pace of innovation mesh with previous writings by the Administration's recently-appointed head, Scott Gottlieb.

When it was a mere "online bookseller," Amazon invested in 40% of an online pharmacy that didn't quite pan out. Now the preeminint online retail giant, the company is believed to be taking another look at the complex industry.

SCIO Health Analytics' Chief Evangelist argues for the use of analytics to prevent complications and provide true value-based care.

Partnership of major national companies launches initiative, encourages President in pursuit of wider adoption of value-based models.

electroCore's device provides mild electrical stimulation to the vagus nerve in order to alleviate headaches.

The Project ECHO programs in New Mexico seek to use mass specialist-to-primary teleconferencing to improve treatment of conditions like diabetes across a vast, rural state.

Equipped with the pancreas and a Fitbit, the children successfully maintained good blood sugar levels despite elevated activity.

A House of Representitives vote on the American Health Care Act did not fall on the seventh anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act. Now it will not occur at all.

The review included nearly 30,000 young patients and found a "small, but significant" effect of mHealth as a viable modality in their treatment.

In the second part of our interview with CCHP director Gutierrez, he speaks about how telehealth policy is evolving nationwide.

Respected surgeon pens plea in Annals of Surgery urging increased use of electronic prescribing platforms to stem the tide of opiate misuse.

"It’s a constant theme we'll be talking about continuously," Hart says. "Patients are saying "we need this support" and yet very few providers are delivering it. "

New Enterprise Associates boasts a portfolio with more than an alphabet's worth of drug makers and research firms in the fold. It also might boast the new head of the Food and Drug Administration.

In the final interview installment, David Engelhardt of ReadyDock Inc., speaks of how the company’s collaboration with Samsung can clean a device of bacteria and data alike.

In Part 2 of his interview with HCA News, David Engelhardt, the founder of ReadyDock Inc., discussed the company's chemical-free mobile and tablet disinfection device designed to mitigate the burden of hospital-acquired infections. Here, Engelhardt details how ReadyDock’s technology works and infection-causing bacteria it can kill.

David Engelhardt, the founder of ReadyDock Inc., met up with HCA News for an interview at the HIMSS17 conference in Orlando, Florida. ReadyDock is chemical-free mobile and tablet disinfection device designed to mitigate the burden of hospital-acquired infections. In this section, Engelhardt speaks of the severity and complexity of the infection issue.

At HIMSS 2017, Patricia Sengstack led a conversation peppered with allusions to books and films from recent memory, bringing a certain levity to the weighty and important topic of patient safety. IT can help enormously, but also create problems of its own.

“I think we’re agreeing, but in a way that sounds like we disagree."

The main goal, he said, was not merely insuring compliance to regulation, but instead insuring actual security.

John Gallagher, Senior Innovation Consultant at Simpler Consulting, offers potential complications that could doom population health efforts: "The business of care delivery must change."

Costs and hospitalizations both fell, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham Report.