Primary care physicians and specialist doctors are using electronic medical records more, and more than half have smartphones, according to a Knowledge Networks study.

Go into any obstetrician/gynecologist's office and you're likely to see a large bulletin board covered with snapshots of babies. But the docs at one Irving, Texas, OB-GYN practice have taken that ubiquitous display of cute kids into the 21st century.

Patients with diabetes or hypertension or both who communicated with their doctors via e-mail got better care and better health outcomes, new California research contends.

The healthcare industry is among the fastest growing handheld device markets, and should hit $8.8 billion this year, says Kalorama Information.

In many offices, doctors are scheduled to see patients every 15 minutes. According to a recent report in Health Affairs, a journal on health policy, primary physicians are spending more than 3 hours a week just interacting with insurance companies and health plan