We need to stop glorifying every new technology as an innovation. New matters only when it's proved better than what we had before.

Edna Boone is the senior director of mHIMSS, the mobile health initiative behind HIMSS, the non-profit devoted to the improvement of health through technology. Join the mHIMSS LinkedIn group, and follow her @mHIMSS. Just a...

During the next five years more than 50 million wireless health monitoring devices for consumers will ship, according to a report from IMS Research. In 2016 about 80 percent of these consumer-facing wireless medical devices...

/PRNewswire/ -- WebMD Health Corp. (NASDAQ: WBMD), the leading source of health information, announced today that Cavan M. Redmond has been appointed as its new Chief Executive Officer and as a member of its Board of Directors,...

Smart pumps deliver drugs perfectly dosed for individual patients. Easy-to-use defibrillators can bring heart-attack victims back from the brink of death.

Earlier this week 23andMe, the Silicon Valley-based personal genomics company, was awarded its first patent:  US Patent Number 8,187,811, entitled “Polymorphisms associated with Parkinson’s disease”. 23andMe co-founder Anne...

MRC has sent a letter to Senators Harkin and Enzi (the Chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, respectively) expressing the Coalition’s opposition to a moratorium and requesting that the Senators oppose any proposal that would delay publication of the guidance.

Integrated health systems like Kaiser Permanente are way ahead of the curve in terms of mobile offerings. However, experts warn that patients should be aware of the rules and risks of carrying personal health data with them.

A swarm of GPS-equipped robots has been released into the Sacramento River to monitor water quality, and tweet the results.

A team of students at Northeastern University in Boston has combined medical and Web-based technologies to create an intelligent T-shirt that can dynamically track a person's activity level.

I awoke this holiday morning to a Google Alert that, when clicked, brought tears to my eyes. For the first time in the national media, I heard this,...

On April 18, The General Medical Council, which regulates medical practice in the UK, opened up its draft guidance on doctors' use of social media for consultation. Comments can be made until June 13, and the results will be...