Eric Wicklund

An HHS grant will be used to compare ERs that use telemedicine consults with those that use telephone consults, with the focus on clinical outcomes and cost.

A look at the top trends to follow next year in mHealth, as glimpsed at last week's conference in the nation's capital.

Detroit's Henry Ford Health System is among the growing number of providers using mHealth innovation labs to take advantage of their clinicians' expertise.

The hospital's first-ever chief innovation officer wants to see more wearables, fewer health and fitness apps, and more mobile connections between clinicians to leverage basic information.

The developer of a platform that mines social media data to track infectious diseases says it can be used to monitor everything from the flu to food poisoning.

Questions about security and the potential to flood doctors with unnecessary data came to the fore this week, triggering the question: Will Apple's HealthKit follow Google Health into the great beyond?

One of the nation's foremost experts on connected health offered words of caution during an opening keynote Monday at the mHealth Summit. And while the movement holds promise to change healthcare for the better, it has to get beyond that 'engagement' issue.

mHealth privacy and security experts attending a Sunday symposium at the mHealth Summit say healthcare workers will look for shortcuts if log-ins and other security measures are too tough. The trick is to make logging in easier than the work-around.

mHealth companies like Validic, exhibiting at this week's 2014 mHealth Summit, are looking to give healthcare providers the information they need -- no matter where it's coming from.

A special "Live Open Mic" on Tuesday at the mHealth Summit will offer advice from one of the nation's largest GPOs and members of the inaugural HIMSS mHealth Committee.