Tom Sullivan

When licensure and payment issues and policies finally get ironed out, telemedicine will be poised to explode, riding on top of broadband the FCC is currently working to establish in rural areas.

Developers have already created a beta application harnessing FDA data in a way similar to what the administration hoped would happen.

Whether the FDA's data sets and reports catalyze new applications will likely depend on the developer community that the agency is hoping will build on top of the information.

Alaska's House bill "mimics" what the military and a tribal consortium are already doing in terms of patient-provider encounters.

New guidelines call for secure videoconferencing but suggest that audio calls, e-mail and text messaging do not quality as telemedicine.

A pair of funding opportunities seek technologies for self-management and remote imaging and diagnosis at the point of care.

A new partnership with one of healthcare's most successful entrepreneurs has the potential to arm clinicians with supercomputing, information and analytics at the point of care.

In conjunction with HHS and ONC, the project helps rural areas implement modern technologies to better serve patient populations.

Despite a spike in cybercrime and a stream of data breaches, IT professionals consider the biggest threat to be internal.

Ubiquitous consumer engagement is a distant point on the horizon, but the U.S. healthcare system can there, if we plot a proper course.