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'Lollapalooza of m-health' carries inspiring but sober messages

I'm sitting in a packed ballroom with perhaps 2,000 of my closest friends at the Washington Convention Center, scarfing down rubber chicken and awaiting Bill Gates, a featured speaker at the mHealth

Health IT not always integrated into clinical workflows

Previous studies of the efficacy of health IT in improving quality of care and patient safety have shown decidedly mixed results, largely because IT isn't properly integrated into clinical and

West Wireless offering $10,000 for integrating sensor data into social media

The West Wireless Health Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California HealthCare Foundation, the Markle Foundation and the University of Wisconsin have announced a total of four new

Urban, suburban areas rank highest in county-specific health outcomes

The healthiest counties in America tend to be in urban and suburban areas, while the vast majority of the 50 unhealthiest counties are rural, according to the first nationwide, county-by-county

Study: Bar codes may not fix medication mistakes

While bar codes have been touted as the ideal solution to medication mistakes, it appears that they aren't nearly as effective as advocates had hoped. That, at least, is the conclusion drawn by the