Medical Devices

Bert Zimmerli, EVP and CFO at Intermountain Healthcare, discusses the future of revenue cycle management in healthcare, especially in the context of connected health.

Joyce Sensmeier, Vice President of Informatics at HIMSS, discusses the important role of nursing informatics in healthcare delivery and the results of the 2015 HIMSS Impact of the Informatics Nurse Survey.

Healthcare is among the top industries that could be impacted by the emerging phenomenon of cloud-based robotics, according to a new research report from Frost & Sullivan.

Researchers at UCLA are working on a project that utilizes mHealth tools to help gambling addicts better manage their behavior. Billed as the first ever behavioral mHealth clinical trial, officials see it as a promising digital approach to help curb various addictions.

Former National Coordinator for Health IT David Brailer, MD, argues in an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal that it's time for Americans to take charge of their medical records.

John R. Zaleski, PhD, CPHIMS, discusses his book, Connected Medical Devices: Integrating Patient Care Data in Healthcare Systems, a new title available in the HIMSS Bookstore.

Despite the many potential rewards of networked healthcare, the risks are very real -- and potentially catastrophic -- when it comes to wearable and implantable medical devices, a new report shows.

Google and Johnson & Johnson are teaming up to make surgical robots. Each will bring capabilities, intellectual property and expertise to the table.

A bipartisan think tank is calling on Congress to let the Food and Drug Administration use EHRs and crowd-sourced patient experience data to help transform the drug and medical device approval process.

A staggering 400,000 people are estimated to die each year due to medical errors. A big part of the blame, say nurses in a new survey, lies with poor interoperability between medical devices and IT.