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Patient engagement, artificial intelligence, telemedicine, virtual reality, and more trends dominated the provider headlines.

From multi-organization collaborations to single-hospital pilots, this year has seen its fair share of experimental blockchain initiatives. 

Sensors connected via Bluetooth to a smartphone app can provide users frequent reports on their foot's temperature. 

Health 2.0's Matt Holt talks results of Health 2.0's EMR API survey. 

Blockchain can protect data integrity and streamline patient consent, but it should be used in conjunction with other technologies and procedures.

Comprised of a Samsung touch screen device and an app-based platfrom, the InterStim smart programmer helps patients and physicians more easily monitor incontinence implants. 

At WISH in Doha Qatar last month, Glazkova was a featured young entrepreneur for her Sense2beat technology.

Dr. Manish Kohli, HIMSS' Chair Global Board of Directors, discusses global struggles with access, quality and cost of care and how China has stepped up to those challenges with remarkable speed and level of ambition.

Startup founders warn their peers to think carefully about deploying distributed ledger technologies.

Could distributed ledger technology offer the promise of real-time EHR updates, seamless interoperability and protection from from ransomware? .