Patients tend to like video telehealth visits with their doctors, according to researchers from Kaiser Permanente, who wrote a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine about recent survey results. 

Surgeons will be using an Apple Watch app to help monitor the basic health data of patients who’ve undergone hip or knee replacement surgery, according to a report by Reuters.

Telehealth monitoring of patients receiving tuberculosis treatments is more effective and cheaper than in-person monitoring, according to a study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

A team of researchers have created a simpler version of electronic wearable devices that can be used for physiological monitoring and alert a user of any health risks in real time.

Anthem, Inc. will pay a record $16 million to HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) after a data breach exposed the electronic protected health information of nearly 79 million people.

Apple has teamed up with Zimmer Bioment to track patients who have undergone hip and knee replacement surgeries—two of the most common surgeries in the nation.

Early results from a study revealed the Dot (Dynamic Optimal Timing) mobile application is an effective tool for helping women plan or prevent pregnancies.

The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit organization that grades nearly 2,000 U.S. hospitals, is expanding its safety and quality ratings to outpatient surgery centers. The group plans to survey 250 centers in 2019 and up to 5,600 in 2020.