He may personify your ideal patient, and your most challenging patient. Steve Keating’s vigilance and involvement in treatment for what turned out to be a brain tumor likely saved his life. He now advocates for patients to have access their medical records and share the data.

Providers and health plans potentially could save $8 billion each year if they fully adopted electronic information transactions, according to a report from the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare.

An analysis of eight popular EHRs found none of their user interfaces had optimal graphing displays of laboratory test results.

Qualcomm Life, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), and AMC Health, a privately held provider of ‘real-time’ patient management solutions, today announced a collaborative effort to accelerate the transformation of chronic care and population health management by significantly enhancing connectivity and care coordination for at-risk patients, specifically those with heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, asthma or COPD, in a cost-effective manner. The companies will integrate Qualcomm Life’s 2net™ Connectivity Platform with AMC Health’s CareConsole care coordination platform.

Mango Health decided to broaden its app to include blood pressure monitoring and make it available on Apple Watch.

“Big data” can change healthcare into a system that better focuses on early detection and prevention rather than acute care—if physicians make better use of it.

Cardiologists need a significant social media footprint that will allow them to guide discussions and engage patients in healthier lifestyles, but they should keep the virtual communication out of the exam and operating rooms. That was the consensus among panelists at a March 14 American College of Cardiology scientific session.

Before heading off to ACC.15, Yair Briman, general manager of healthcare IT with Philips Healthcare, answered a few questions about the conference for Cardiovascular Business.