Boston Children's Hospital

In early 2016, Boston Children’s Hospital was among the first healthcare organizations to leverage Amazon Alexa with KidsMD, a skill that helps parents understand their child’s symptoms, seek basic medication dosing guidance, or decide whether an in-person visit is necessary.

Online AI-powered healthcare chatbot Buoy has announced a new, deep partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital.

Dan Gottleib, who leads the Smart Health IT project at Boston Children's, and Verily's Josh Mandel talk about FHIR, SMART and the concept of "substitute ability" as a means to improve interoperability.

Without a medical background, listening to a doctor describe a complex procedure can feel a little bit like listening to a lecture in gibberish.

It's hard to imagine a better blend of high tech and low tech than an iPhone stuck to the bottom of a plastic bucket.

With every new innovator in digital health, it seems like there's a temptation to crown an "Uber for Health" that will disrupt the industry in a radical consumer-facing way.

Boston Children's Hospital released data from a discharge app pilot they launched last year and announced three partnerships, with Rock Health, IBM, and Grand Rounds.

IBM's new health-focused venture, Watson Health, opened its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts last week, amid the same kind of flurry of announcements and partnerships that marked its launch last April.

Google Flu Trends, as a website open to the general public, has shut down.

Boston Children's Hospital has tapped John Brownstein, currently the director of the hospital's computational epidemiology group, as its new Chief Innovation Officer.