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At Boston Children's Hospital's second annual Innovator's Showcase this week, researchers and clinicians presented a number of new technology-focused offerings that are currently in use or being tested at the hospital.

Sunrise, Florida-based MDLive, which offers patient-to-physician remote visits via mobile devices, has partnered with Microsoft to deliver telehealth services through Microsoft's Skype for Business offering.

Samsung S Health apps Partners HealthCare has announced a partnership with Samsung Electronics to co-develop mobile health solutions.

Apple announced that ResearchKit, its open source platform that helps researchers build medical apps and recruit patients for smartphone-based clinical studies, is now open researchers and developers.

WebMD's Apple Watch app The Apple Watch is set to launch in just a few days.

IBM Watson has taken a giant step deeper into the healthcare industry with the formation of a new business unit called Watson Health and a new cloud offering called the Watson Health Cloud.

Nearly a third of healthcare providers offer organization-specific apps for their patients, according to a small survey of healthcare providers conducted by HIMSS.

A diabetes management app developed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is set to begin a pilot at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS).

New York City-based Health Recovery Solutions announced that its tablet-based program reduced the 30-day readmission rate for 130 congestive heart failure (CHF) patients at Penn Medicine’s Penn Care at Home program by 53 percent.

Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic spin-off Ambient Clinical Analytics has received FDA 510(k) clearance for a software-based decision support tool, called AWARE.