Tufts Medical Center, New England Quality Care Alliance and Vanguard Health Systems are negotiating the details of a partnership to provide expanded care in Massachusetts.

Rarely is there a shortage of interoperability rhetoric but this month, Im pleased to report a concrete development on this front: Health Level Seven (HL7) International will make much of its intellectual property, including standards, freely available under licensing terms.

BOSTONA wide variety of speakers presented their research projects during the Medicine 2.0 Congress and proved that while mobile health has much potential, it raises many questions as well.

BOSTONRoger Chafe, PhD, director of pediatric research at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, discussed the intersection of social media and more traditional media at the Medicine 2.0 Congress, and how both are impacting treatments and research.

BOSTONAlthough still in the early phases of implementation, text message-based health interventions are producing results, according to the panelists of a Sept. 15 presentation at the 2012 Medicine 2.0 Congress.

BOSTONMoving healthcare to virtual spaces and giving patients more responsibility for their own care will make it cheaper and more efficient, according to the speakers of a Sept. 15 panel at the 2012 Medicine 2.0 Congress.

MRI successfully provided image guidance for right heart catheterization, according to results of a pilot study conducted at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published online in European Heart Journal.

BOSTONPatient health record (PHR) and patient portal utilization is growing as providers and governments attempt to engage patients in their healthcare, but best practices for their use have yet to be determined, according to the speakers of a Sept. 16 presentation at the 2012 Medicine 2.0 Congress.