The Consumer Partnership for eHealth, a group of more than 50 leading consumer, patient and labor organizations, appears to be the first group to submit public comments regarding the draft Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap.

Four companies have made the cut and will be finalists in the HX360 Innovation Challenge competition.

Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, will leave his position in April.

Google has been granted a patent by the U.S. patent office for its smart contact lens featuring a chip, electric circuit and sensor technology, according to multiple reports.

Phoenix Children's Hospital has received a $200,000 grant that will support the hospital's "Connected Patient Project," which provides customized patient care information on tablets.

There is a lot of research in the area of home telemonitoring for chronic conditions and how it can improve outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. Spyros Kitsiou, assistant professor at the Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences at the College of Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, is one of those researchers and he just published an article about it in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Patients are comfortable with their physician using technology but 40 percent feel rushed during appointments, according to a survey of 3,000 adults across the U.S., U.K. and Germany conducted by Nuance Communications.

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System has launched an entity that will support companies working to revolutionize care. The organization also announced a three-year innovation challenge in collaboration with GE Healthcare.