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Physicians will not embrace mobile health tools until they have the proper financial incentives, health experts say.

Ozcare, a non-profit health and community services provider in Queensland, has launched a new system designed to improve care by sending alerts and other notifications to nurses carrying mobile devices.

Being a small, rural hospital poses a special set of challenges. But the innovative ways in which these under-resourced organizations manage to meet their needs present new opportunities for vendors.

"When we deal with procurement and IT people in healthcare companies, we tend to hear the same message time and time again: 'Every dollar we spend on IT equipment we'd rather spend somewhere else.'"

IBM has announced it has launched a multi-year research project to connect and analyze enormous collections of data from a wide variety of sources to find ways to improve health. The project will initially focus on childhood obesity.

More and more EMR vendors are offering confused and wary providers an offer they might find difficult to refuse: a money-back guarantee.

With the June 1 deadline looming for the Red Flags Rule, industry experts, say physicians should already be complying.

Is the push for electronic medical record use driving providers out of small private practices and into the “arms” of hospitals and health systems?

The “perils of paper” are likely consequences of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s final interim rule for e-prescribing controlled substances, according to one national health IT professional.

Most patients who write a blog don’t ever think their doctors will read it, just as doctors don’t ever expect that their patients will read their notes. But what if this changed? Experts think there may be some “unintended consequences.”