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

"I read all about my condition on the Internet," a recent patient proudly told me. Like other doctors, I'm seeing more patients research their symptoms thoroughly before setting foot in the exam room.

For medical professionals, the smartphone holds the power to access drug reference guides on the go, monitor a patient’s heart rate or glucose levels and securely share electronic health records.

With some users' voracious appetites for photos, streaming music and videos slowing down the network, AT&T decided to institute a higher price point for heavy data use on Wednesday.