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Adding HIPAA compliant messaging to medical software increases productivity by safely allowing staff and patients to communicate.

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The America's Pharmacy "Rx Discount" App has been recognized as a top 10 free medical app on the on Google Play Store. The free America's Pharmacy App displays the lowest prices on tens-of-thousands of prescriptions at your local pharmacy. People using it can save up to 80% of their prescriptions on drugs.

Healthcare veteran Paul Brient, SVP and chief product officer at Athenahealth, talks to MobiHealthNews about what happened in 2020 and makes predictions for the future.

The company is using the new funds to hire more staff in leadership positions.

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There was no shortage of variety among the 2020 healthcare initiatives from Alphabet's major business units.

As the agency's workload swells with the weight of a public health emergency, digital health companies on a timeline should consider whether their products truly warrant a regulatory submission, writes Epstein Becker & Green's Bradley Merrill Thompson.

With the platform, Highmark will support patients and clinicians to increase their engagement throughout the healthcare journey.

New report compares symptom assessment apps on condition coverage, accuracy and safety.

Lucira's molecular testing kit allows individuals to collect their own nasal sample and insert it into a device that provides results in under 30 minutes. The company is aiming to sell the single-use tests for roughly $50.

Experts say that designing technology for everyone and creating customization features for smaller populations are key in making better solutions for seniors.

Now available in public preview, the offerings are designed to help organizations and individuals pull clinically-relevant insights from large volumes of free text housed in medical records.

The new service lets patients take a digital eye exam and get their prescription renewed by an eye doctor.

Gearbox Studios CEO Randy Pitchford and videogame science company MMOS cofounder Attila Szantner discuss the design and deployment decisions that drew 1.6 million players to their gene sequencing alignment puzzle game, and how "citizen science" games can help advance data-driven research.

Bradley Merrill Thompson, an FDA-watcher, lawyer and occasional MobiHealthNews guest contributor, joins the MobiHealthNews team for a closer look at what the FDA has been up to around digital health and AI.

Hemant Taneja, managing director of General Catalyst, talks about what tech can learn from health and vice versa.

Takeaways from Alison Byrne, FGM specialised midwife at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS trust & University Hospitals Birmingham NHS trust and Lina Chan, founder and CEO of Parla who will be speaking at HIMSS Europe Digital.