Eric Wicklund

Despite all its promise, it remains to be seen whether mobile health technologies will bring doctors closer to their patients, or instead drive them apart.

The Center for Connected Health is working with a Japanese pharmaceutical company to develop an app that would help guide patients taking medication for an irregular heartbeat.

The chief medical officer at Nuance discusses how speech recognition is "reinventing the relationship between people and technology," but he doesn't see a future for products that purport to study the brain.

Much of the discussion at the first day of Partners Connected Health Symposium focused on consumer engagement -- and how technology can show us the difference between what we want to do and what we actually do.

A Virginia businessman calls on the federal agency to cover expenses for remote glucose monitoring and other mHealth platforms that allow diabetics and their caregivers to better manage the chronic disease.

A new peer review service will subject health apps to an assessment by physicians and possibly consumers. But it promises to raise as many questions as it could answer.

A recent survey finds that clinicians who use mobile devices report fewer problems adapting to EHRs -- and are more likely to find value in them -- than those who use PCs or laptops.

The founder and director of Partners HealthCare's renowned Center for Connected Health - which will host its 11th annual Connected Health Symposium next week - feels mHealth is here to stay, but still needs to be 'frictionless' for the average consumer.

The recent rash of indecent photographs posted on the Web for all to see has healthcare providers wondering if the cloud is truly safe for their protected health data.

The University of New Mexico is using a $15 million federal grant to make its specialists available via telemedicine consult to 30 rural and remote hospitals across the state.