Only 3 percent of consumers have used a telemedicine service and approximately two-thirds of are unfamiliar with telemedicine, but after hearing a brief description, the majority indicated they would want to try a video consultation, according to a survey from :DentalPlans.

The BUILD Health Challenge has awarded inaugural grants to 18 projects working to improve health in low-income communities.  

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee continued its efforts to improve EHRs and interoperability during a hearing on June 10. 

The UMass Lowell Innovation Hub and the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) business incubators opened for business on June 1. 

A group of 28 hospitals of the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association are planning to fund the start-up company Ascend Innovations which will develop an ecosystem that produces commercially viable solutions in human health innovation.

CHICAGO, June 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Geneia, a company of experienced healthcare change agents creating analytic and technology solutions to improve healthcare, today announced that Hashim Zaidi, MD was chosen the grand prize winner in the Geneia Joy of Medicine Challenge. 

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., June 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- There are more than 200,000 deaths per year in the United States due to preventable patient care errors, making it the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. The Joint Commission attributes 80% of these errors as associated with miscommunication during patient hand-off.  

BOSTON—Geisinger Health System has a $6 billion research and development shop that is a microcosm of the entire healthcare space, said the organization’s chief clinical informatics officer Alistair Erskine, MD, speaking at AMIA’s iHealth 2015 Conference.