Hennepin County Medical Center, a 477-bed hospital in downtown Minneapolis, is ready to display its meaningful use readiness to the world. And Chief Medical Information Officer Kevin Larson says the hospital wouldn’t be ready if it hadn’t embraced mobile health. more»

Proposed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mobile health regulations showed up in the Federal Register in late July. A week later at the World Congress 3rd Annual Leadership Summit on mHealth, stakeholders debated if -- and how much -- they would stifle development. more»

Should you buy your medical staff smartphones, tablets, or other mobile devices, or let them use their own devices for work? It's a dilemma most CIOs are facing now, with little long-term experience to guide them. more»

Cleveland Clinic is betting that its physicians, IT staff and others have some great ideas for apps and other mobile products. So much so, officials there have created a mobile "governance committee" of physicians, marketers, administrators, registered nurses and IT reps. more»

Mobile technology, and its ability to provide rapid access to medical information, can be both good and bad for providers' medical liability risk. That's the upshot of Harvard health law professor Michelle Mello's presentation at the World Congress Leadership Summit on mHealth from Thursday. more»

Health insurer Highmark plans to launch a new mobile app for its members early next year, Lisa Fitting, Director of Digital Client Engagement at Highmark told attendees this morning at the World Congress Leadership Summit on mHealth in Boston. Highmark partnered up with A.D.A.M. more»

The Department of Defense recently launched a full clinical trial of its mCare mobile app and platform for soldiers with brain injuries, Commander Peter Park, clinical informatics deputy director for the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery revealed at the World Congress Leadership Summit on mHealth Thursday morning. more»

There were more questions than answers for hospital CIOs at the World Congress Leadership Summit on mHealth in Boston last week. It shouldn't be a surprise, given the rapid rise of mobile development in the past year. The truth is, there hasn't been enough time to create hard-and-fast solutions for the key dilemmas plaguing mHealth. more»