The new iPhone application can read and monitor heartbeats.

In San Francisco today, Apple unveiled a new lineup of iPods, including an iPod touch with features borrowed from iPhone 4, such as FaceTime and the Retina display high-resolution screen.

With physician smartphone use nearing a saturation point, doctors are in an unfamiliar position when it comes to health information technology -- demanding that others adapt to their needs, rather than the other way around.

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