Stanford & Kaiser reveal the next big opportunities in health tech

What do the most innovative doctors and nurses really think about the new wave of medical technology?

Founders: Bid for pitch slots with Tim Draper, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, and more VCs

How much would you donate to charity to have a private pitch meeting with your favorite venture capitalist?

Nurses will never adopt your tech if the usability sucks

Nurses and doctors are consumers too. They experience consumer technology in their personal lives and are starting to demand it within the hospital walls.

Health care is Verizon’s $6 billion business

Verizon is the largest wireless telecommunications provider in the U.S., and the company is using its extensive network and resources to impact health care.

Doctors scared they will lose money due to new technology

According to a survey of 5,000 practicing doctors, many physicians are nervous about their ability to make money in the coming year, thanks to technology complexities, health care reform, and other issues.

Need a second opinion? ConsultingMD’s ‘network of medical experts’ can help

ConsultingMD offers patients the opportunity to consult a leading medical expert for a second opinion -- and receive a detailed response in about 48 hours.

Aetna’s not just an insurance company, it now has a fitness app too

Aetna plans to launch an app to help motivate you to exercise, track your fitness and nutrition, and keep an eye on your medical data.

Salesforce: The cloud is not an ‘all or nothing game’ for health care

Despite the obvious flexibility and cost savings of cloud technologies, health care providers are treading carefully -- largely because of security concerns.

Imaging and lab results are begging for an electronic, cloud-based makeover

Radiology images and lab results are traditionally moved using paper, CD-Roms, or USBs. Surescripts, a leading platform for electronic prescriptions, is leveraging its network of 500K physicians to modernize this area of health care.

How Practice Fusion plans to use patient data to save lives

"We have all this patient information that doesn't reside anywhere else," said Practice Fusion CEO Ryan Howard on stage at HealthBeat.

AirStrip uses iPhones, iPads to cut through health care data tangle

AirStrip has an ambitious goal: To cut through the incompatibilities clogging up the free flow of medical information between doctors and nurses.

Attention digital health startups: VCs say now is a ‘great’ time to raise money

Partners at Sequoia, Norwest Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers discuss health industry trends and what they look for in potential investments.

Mobile technology could save billions of dollars on health care costs

On stage today at HealthBeat 2013, Dr. Ivor Horn of the National Children's Medical Center and Asthmapolis president Mark Gehring spoke about the potential for 'mHealth' to reach underserved populations and help them take control over their health.

Health care developers who build on Box get HIPAA compliance for free

Developers may be hesitant to build apps based on health data because of security compliance roadblocks, but it seems there's a workaround way to get HIPAA on your side.

Health care data stumbles on ‘walls’ put up by EMR vendors

Before health care providers can handle "big data," they first need to learn how to deal with small data.

Health care is on the brink of a more personalized, population-based, pervasive future

Digital technology is fundamentally transforming the practice of medicine, but Dr. David Levin, the Chief Medical Information Officer at the Cleveland Clinic, said this is still unchartered territory.

This $22K sniper rifle comes with a WiFi server, USB ports, an iPad mini … and aims itself

"Think of it like a smart rifle. You have a smart car; you got a smartphone; well, now we have a smart rifle," company President Jason Schauble says.