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Glen Tullman, the former Allscripts CEO who left the company at the end of 2012 by mutual agreement, is back in the health field.
As a group, about 35 percent of baby boomers were interested in using their smartphone to learn about and better manage their own health, according to results from a survey conducted by academic researchers in late 2010.
Sixty five percent of nurses use a mobile device at work for professional purposes and for at least 30 minutes every day, according to a survey of 2,498 nurses by Wolters Kluwer Health.
Remote cardiac monitoring company eCardio has agreed to merge with wearable, remote monitoring device maker Preventice.
Apple made its long-awaited wearable announcement today at a special event in Cupertino, as well as showing off the iPhone 6 and the new, larger iPhone 6 plus.
As Apple gets ready for its long-awaited wearable device announcement later today, a couple of other wearables in the fitness tracking space are following the Apple model of vaguely hinting about upcoming releases.
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to launch several new mobile apps this fall, according to a report from Federal News Radio.
Watson at Memorial Sloan-Kettering
IBM's Watson, a cognitive computing system that has already been deployed in a number of healthcare use cases, is teaming up with Mayo Clinic to bring its computing power to bear on the age-old problem of matching active clinical trials with eligible participants.
According to a new study from Boston Children's Hospital and the University of Cologne in Germany, less than a third of health apps in the iTunes and Google Play store had any privacy policy at all in place.
Helsinki, Finland-based Beddit announced that with their most recent round of funding, the company has reached $8 million in funding to date.