Used by 1 out of 2 U.S. physicians, and often rated the #1 free medical app*, Medscape Mobile Apps (v. 4.1) provides the most comprehensive set of tools to support clinicians with all of their professional needs.

drawMD apps for iPad allows physicians to sit shoulder to shoulder with patients to explain and illustrate conditions and possible medical and surgical solutions.

Combining patient education, patient portal and waiting room solutions, Snap by Seamless Medical is a cloud-based enterprise solution. The goal of Snap, says David Perez, Founder and CEO of Seamless, is to provide a better experience for the patient and streamline the workflow for the medical office.

With a barrage of information and a high volume of patients, weeding through all the data to identify patients who can benefit from testing, treatments or procedures can be challenging.

Omnio is “a 21st century black bag,” according to Gautam Gulati, Chief Medical & Innovation Officer Physicians Interactive. The goal of the app is to make everything a doctor needs for reference or continuing education just one tap away.

Keeping up with demands for increased on-the-go functionality, ADP AdvancedMD has an updated app available for the iPad and iPad mini.

What are the differences between an electronic health record (EHR) and an electronic medical record (EMR)? Although only one letter varies, the inclusion of the word "health" in EHR makes an EHR much more all-encompassing than an EMR.

Touch screens are pervasive at ATMs, airports, and restaurant kiosks, but still a novelty in the healthcare sector. But now touch screen technology is getting a slice of the action at the doctor’s office.

From central Appalachia to the Great Plains, healthcare organizations in rural America face their own set of challenges.

Peerless, which produces audio and visual solutions, announced its formal expansion into the healthcare market with the launch of the PeerCare brand of highly adaptable fixed and mobile IT product mounting solutions for both traditional and emerging computing platforms within healthcare IT.

Julie Shimer will retire from Welch Allyn at the end of 2012, allowing time for a successor to be named and a smooth transition over the course of the next several months.

New guidelines have been issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, reports Fierce EMR.

Patients of the Regional Medical Center in Memphis received notification that their information was compromised, reports Government Health IT.

A new survey by Accenture shows that the number of U.S doctors using electronic medical records has increased by 32%, reports Healthcare IT.

Southeastern Pennsylvania will soon have a health information exchange, reports EHR Intelligence.