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Proposed HHS Regulations may affect the use of Personal Health Data for research. Here Matthew Bietz outlines three specific proposals and discusses their potential impacts.

Google is the number 3 most valuable brand in the world! It is worth $367 billion dollars today! The company that was started in 1995 at Stanford University, continues its perpetual drive to [...]

Abstract Objective: Understand barriers to the use of personal health data (PHD) in research from the perspective of three stakeholder groups: early adopter individuals who track data about their [...]

In case you missed it this month, Apple’s “Special Event” devoted significant attention to health care innovation. It even brought onstage a doctor associated with a new app that lets clinicians [...]

Abstract Mobile health apps are health and wellness programs available on mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets. In three systematic assessments published in BMC Medicine, Huckvale and [...]

EVERY DAY, MILLIONS of people use Google to dig up information that drives their daily lives, from how long their commute will be to how to treat their child’s illness. This search data reveals a [...]

A patent filing reveals that Apple ($AAPL) is developing a ring computing device. Worn on the finger, the gizmo is expected to house technology that includes biometric sensors for monitoring [...]

While governments and groups gnash their teeth and craft future policy concerning electronic health record usability, providers are turning to overlay software to recast EHR workflow. This [...]

The Quantified Self symposium on tracking and managing pain is a new kind of innovation challenge, designed to advance your ideas for helping people who are dealing with acute and chronic [...]

Using a new app called C Tracker, the hospital is gathering real-time information about how hepatitis C affects patients. The hospital is using a free app called C Tracker, which was developed by [...]