Molly Merrill

The Department of Health and Human Services has unveiled Healthy People 2020, new 10-year goals and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention. Officials also launched "myHealthyPeople," a new challenge intended to spur technology innovation in application developers.  

Future docs take mobile technology as a given.

A new Center for Social Media launched at the Mayo Clinic in September with the aim of accelerating effective social media use at the clinic – as well as for hospitals, medical professionals and patients worldwide.

Given that texting is the most widely used mobile data service and healthcare workers are among the biggest users of mobile technology, it may seem natural for its use to be extended into the physician-patient relationship.

With the release of the iPad in April, many healthcare experts predicted that it could be a “game changer” for the industry by spurring physician’s adoption of electronic medical records.

In the year 2010 doctors should be looking at technologies that could help boost their communication with their patients, experts told Healthcare IT News in January.

Colorado Technical University (CTU) announced the launch of two new programs that are available online: an Associate of Science in Health Administration Services (ASHAS) and a Master of Science in Management (MSM) with a concentration in enterprise information systems.

Sixty-five hospitals recognized for best performance in patient safety and quality for 2010 - an award that hinges heavily on IT use - were announced Wednesday by watchdog organization The Leapfrog Group.

Three in five Americans with chronic disease say using a home medical device would improve their health, according to a new survey.

A pilot program being conducted by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will use a private contractor and the Internet to speed claims decisions and cut down the time it takes to receive healthcare records from private physicians.